Thursday 18.4.

UX and user-based design all day.

Wednesday 17.4.

Juha Saarisalo, web applications' security. Book: the tangled web. Demo of the time-measurement system as one of the training projects.

Tuesday 16.4.

Cloud services. Lots of copy-paste to command line in Ubuntu.

Monday 15.5

In the morning we visited Crazy Town here in Jyväskylä. After the lunch we had service desing with Lego serious play by Juha Ruuska. Total waste of my time, because my brains don't work like that. Describing abstract processess with Legos? Impossible for me. I did understand why it can be a powerfull and usefull tool for any IT-company, but it's not my cup of tea.

Friday 12.4.

Tutormeeting was the only agenda, the rest of the day is independent studies. The tutormeeting with Ari Rantala gave me confidence I'm on the right track and some tips on key technologies to know. After that I studied more JavaScript from javascript.info. That site seems better than freecodecamp, because you have to type in the whole code, not just modify it like on freecodecamp. Also each "lesson" has more than just one thing to teach. I like this site more.

Thursday 11.4.

Service design, human-computer interactions by Jenni Majuri. After that we had independent studies and then we had info about personal services in JAMK, for example health care and mental health care, also what free sports services there are for unemployed people.

Wednesday 10.4.

In the morning we had basic Linux commands, but I already knew most of them, thanks to playing around with Ubuntu since 2005 or so. After lunch we had some free time, I tried to install the framework for React JS but I didn't get it working. In the afternoon two visitors came to tell us about their project that needs updating and upgrading. Our group might take the project if we like it. The project sounded interesting, I'm going to get a closer look on this.

Tuesday 9.4.

Cloud computing, the word of the day. We started by installing either Ubuntu or Ubuntu on a virtual server. I had Ubuntu already on this laptop provided by school. Then we installed docker on it and tried some simple commands to make sure it was working. After lunch I started learning React JS. I also brainstormed with some course mates with my idea for a training project, that I mentioned before. I didn't know you can include text on QR codes, but how else would you be able to open websites just by showing the QR code to your phone's camera? I never tought about that, but it might come handy.

In the afternoon we had visitor from Digia, Anssi Ylönen. He told us about their projects, products etc.

Thursday 11.4.

Monday 8.4.

One week over, it went fast. Morning was remote studies, but I slept because of the weekend, Finnish championchips in volleyball for men over 35, we came fourth. Jermu Mäkinen from Firstbeat came to tell us about their company and job opportunities there. After this more remote studies, I did a few Javascript lessons. Easy start for the second week of our studies.

Friday 5.4.

TGIF. Introduction to SecDevOps and continous delivery pipeline (CI/CD) by Jani Päijänen. We started with a shortened daily scrum. Personal note: robot framework, test automation might be interesting!!! Group work,  going throught three cases with the whole group. After that it was independent work, I did some Javascript and left early.

Thursday 4.4.

In the morning we had a library info, but I got the feeling it was more for people starting to work on their thesis. Lot of info about different web search engines and citations. After that we did remote studying on our own, looking for books that might interest us about this training and online programming courses we might want to take. I completed first excercise on our Git-course and went home early.

Wednesday 3.4.

The day began with daily scrum. Then we talked about Git and GitLab, and Karo Saharinen came for a visit and told us more about GitLab, why do we use it end pros and cons. He also showed us the UI and said to send us first excercises by email. We also talked about companies where we would like to do our practical training in.

In the afternoon we got three visitors from Discoverystreet, Mika Korhonen, Petteri Mustalahti and Markus Pelkonen. We talked about different topics about jobs and landing a job, how to prepare for the interview, how to make your self noticed and how to self market, what are important skills etc. Great info from professionals! At home I further updated my linked in and did some JavaScript learning, also did a little bit of designing for my own web-project. It could have some commercial potential but for now it will be my pet project where I learn coding. I think I'll use Java for it, so I need to refresh/relearn that too.

2nd day

Tuesday 2.4. In the morning we had our first daily scum, interesting. At first the idea sounded a bit excessive but with better understanding of agile software development, daily meetings sounds good. We started getting to know each others and did the marshmallow challenge. Also we had Belbin's team test. Reflecting to the marshmallow challenge, my role in the team according to the test was correct. I got something done right, nice.

After lunch we had brainstroming. We used mindmeister webapp to make mindmaps, the first one was about different task and roles in a software development team. In the second mind map we listed our wishes and expectations about the DevSecOps training. Our list was quite complete, also the head teacher was pleased, their plans and our views met well.

The last task was to get our pictures taken for our personal use, for example in linkedin. I can finally update my photo from 2007. At home I started this blog and also I began refreshing/relearning JavaScript on freecodecamp.

Still no actually learning of DevSecOps, just orientation but I'm not complaining. I've got a feeling we'll be having our hands full with new stuff the following weeks.

The first day!

Monday 1.4. this is when it all begins. The first week is orienting, getting to know each other etc. We met with the other people in the group, 15 alltogether. Got some general info about the training, schedules, classes, topics and so on. Also we received the necessary info to access JAMK network and services. They gave us laptops for the duration of the training, until the end of November. At home I intalled Ubuntu on it. Updated my linkedin profile as well, but it needs further tweaking. You can find it here.

So what is this training all about? DevOps with cyber security. For more information see this site (in finnish): http://ict-alan-osaajaksi-2019.pages.labranet.jamk.fi/core/

The beginning

Welcome to follow my journey at DevSecOps training. This blog will work as my study diary as well as my personal blog and a platform to reflect on.

So how did this all get started?

Basically, I was getting sick and tired of not getting a job from my current field, logistics. I decided to apply for masters degree in cyber security and also search for jobs in the IT, because I've had some experience in HTML and CSS. Fortunately, I saw an ad for DevSecOps training, in co-operation with TE-palvelut and JAMK university of applied sciences in Jyväskylä. I applied to the training, got invited into the interview and got accepted. Hooray!

This is the beginning and at the end of November we shall see the end. Now let's start learning!