Day 4-FTS

Day 4

Company Visit/s:

Exist Global

Today, I went to…

                “It feels like we are outside the country”. This was our first impression the moment we arrive at Ortigas to visit Exist Global. Why? It is because we were surrounded by a so beautiful and big building that Davao doesn’t have. Its elevation and exquisiteness captures us. It makes me wish to let Davao have this kind of industry.

                Now going back to Exist Global, it is not my first time to hear about the company nor its specifications since one of their personnel had already visited our institution (USeP) for the last years Icean Congress. From there, we were able to know its basics specifically their Exist Code Camp. From this company tour, I had learned personally that this group has something that has already gone wild to the IT industry. It is only from this company that we feel that we too have our own room in this field. Inspired by our speakers and sharers, they let us know some tips and facts about what we are engaging to and that they let us feel that we can however stain such a thing if we would just let ourselves too. Just don’t stop on believing and pursue everything. Of course, on the other side of the story, which is also one of the most important is my personal learning’s and knowledge as we ended up our educational tour in this company.

What I learned…

                Let start it off in software development. Exist Global focuses on java development on interactive web and mobile solutions. Using the java PL, they are able to produce products and services such as iPhone Application, games, websites and usually the build software. For me, as  a personal testimony I find java’s environment more friendly than any other programming languages. It can be used straight forward and is trouble free since it is already object oriented. From what this company had been producing compared to others, I had barely observed that they differ not just only in products but as well as to the kind of implementation that they had been practicing.

                As our speaker continues, she answered one of the questions of our team that they uses half mac and half linux machine which is very far different to what a normal student or people used. I personally used Windows 2007 (and it is just a crack!). I just do love it that they market globally meaning that they too had been competitive to a foreigner which is something that could be proud off. But although they do this, they make sure that they only focused on a certain region. Aside from that the company also offers open sourcing and google summer of code.

                By just having a short discussion, our lecturer let us know the segmentation of java Industry and it includes mobile, web, desktop and others. During our second year days, we were already taught about the java PL. In out programming III, we applied it in web through the java server pages while others had it in mobile. AS I reminisce all of this I did see the connection of the things that we are studying. Indeed it is never a trash! I appreciated it more when she site some difficult positions to fill according to networkworld.com as of July 2010. These positions include Java/J2EE, security, software developer, database administration and others. At least I know that we are heading to something. But the question is, do we claim these positions?

What I liked…

                Java. It is because of this programming language that I earned hope after all of these years for all of the things that we are doing. Candidly, I like java a lot and I’m well pleased to know more about it. I just so like it the moment I knew that one of the most marvelous company that exist today is using this language competitively.

 What I didn’t like…

                Oh , at first I was really excited to have a tour of the entire building. It’s just that they had not let us had a tour and I honestly don’t understand why. From among of all the companies that we had, it is only during their time that we don’t have a tour. It got most of us disappointed. However, it we were able to handle our emotions since we have nothing to do about it. But anyway, its definitely good and satisfy our awareness.