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	<title>LakTEK</title>
	
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	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>If Rails is a Ghetto, Merb is a Whorehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/11/20/if-rails-is-a-ghetto-merb-is-a-whorehouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get confused over the title, I&#8217;m not trying to punch the Merb community as Zed did to Rails. A grasshopper like me don&#8217;t even qualify to do such a rant. I&#8217;m actually trying to pimp Merb!
Merb is the newest addition to Ruby town. First, it was started just to satisfy the unfulfilled desires of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extended-Bort: My base Rails app</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/31/extended-bort-my-base-rails-app/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/31/extended-bort-my-base-rails-app/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bort is an awesome base Rails app, which allows you to get into real action without wasting your time on setting up the most common and boring stuff. It comes with RESTful Authentication, OpenID support, Capistrano Mutli-stage deployments and many other essential plugins, thus lifting good work load. I first got to use Bort when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really Simple Color Picker in jQuery</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/27/really-simple-color-picker-in-jquery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/27/really-simple-color-picker-in-jquery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Recently, I needed to use a color picker with predefined color palette for my work. Thanks to many enthusiastic developers, there are several popular, sophisticated color pickers already exist for jQuery. However, most of these plugins looks complex as if they are made to be used in a online image editor. They are overwhelming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love what you do</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/15/love-what-you-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/15/love-what-you-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Maybe you can&#8217;t make money doing what you love&#8221;, Seth Godin challenges the conventional wisdom about careers. He argues sometimes converting your passion in to a profession may not work. Though most of us may not willing to accept, this is the harsh reality of life. Rather than doing what you love, you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startups and Real Life</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/09/28/startups-and-real-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/09/28/startups-and-real-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[University]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I participated in the first Academic Symposium organized by our faculty. The topic for the day was Graduation, Entrepreneurship and Success. The panel, which was modereated by Peter D&#8217;Almeida (he is also an old Benedictine) included Dr.Sanjeeva, Wegapitiya (Laughs), Harsha Purasinghe (Microimage), Ramesh Shamuganathan (JKCS) and Mohammed Azmeez (Concept Nursery). The discussion raised some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple command line todo list</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/08/28/simple-command-line-todo-list-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/08/28/simple-command-line-todo-list-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruby]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say pen and paper is the best way to manage a todo list. Following the popular norm, I also started tracking my todos with pen and paper. But after several unsuccessful attempts of finding a pen or deciphering tasks from torn or soaked paper, I felt keyboard and the pixel-screen would be more accessible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contact Form using Merb &amp; DataMapper</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/07/28/creating-a-contact-form-using-merb-datamapper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/07/28/creating-a-contact-form-using-merb-datamapper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Major benefit of using Rails to develop web applications is its smart conventions, which promote developers to adapt to common patterns and avoid wasting time in reinventing the wheel. Rails is strictly bonded with a database and has a pre-defined directory structure. Though these conventions are helpful in common cases, it reduces the flexibility of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passenger - Holy Grail for Ruby Deployment</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/07/17/passenger-holy-grail-for-ruby-deployment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/07/17/passenger-holy-grail-for-ruby-deployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=80</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Popular notion about developing web apps with Ruby on Rails (or other Ruby frameworks) was &#8220;You can write a web app in 15 minutes, but it will take 15 days to deploy it correctly&#8221;. Especially if you are coming from the world of PHP, where you have to just write the app and upload it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passion</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/07/14/passion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/07/14/passion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us do work hard in our lives, but how many of us achieve the goals we strive for? Complains such as &#8220;I never missed a class and never missed homework but I couldn&#8217;t get through the exam&#8221; or &#8220;Though I work 12 hours a day I&#8217;m not getting a promotion in my job&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Live.</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/06/18/still-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/06/18/still-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know most of you may have already assumed this blog is dead and removed from your RSS readers too. However it&#8217;s not..I always have the intent to keep on blogging, but lack of consistentcy and pure laziness of mine didn&#8217;t really help the cause.
During the past six months of silence, actually I tried to [...]]]></description>
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