LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

Still Live.

I know most of you may have already assumed this blog is dead and removed from your RSS readers too. However it’s not..I always have the intent to keep on blogging, but lack of consistentcy and pure laziness of mine didn’t really help the cause.
During the past six months of silence, actually I tried to […]


Walkthrough of the Redesign

When I first launched my blog the main intention was to make my mark online. Without sticking into blogspot (Anyway, I had a blog on there for a short stint) or wordpress.com, I decided to go one step ahead and host the blog in my own domain with a customized template. That was a […]


Enjoying my Summer Of Code with SilverStripe

First of all, I beg your pardon for not updating you with my summer of code experiences as I promised. Once I get busy with coding I tend to forget all other essential stuff which needs to go along with hacking. Yeah I know that’s not a good practice as a FOSS developer and trying […]


Daily reads for wannabe WebDs

This is a collection of sites, which I recommend for daily use for the people who are eager to pimp their web design/development skills. This was initially prepared to send to my fellow batch mates at the university, but later I thought why not share it with the rest of the world too :) These […]


.app TLD for Web Applications

Web applications have become the next trend of the internet and it seems the day it’ll replace traditional desktop apps are not that far. But still web applications aren’t the easiest to use for average users one of the major barriers is accessing the application itself. As I mentioned in my previous post most of […]


Confusing Web 2.0 Domains

How do you define a web 2.0 application ? Normal distinguishable features includes AJAX, rounded corners, large input fields, badges and etc. But did you notice a another feature which is common to most of the apps of web 2.0 culture ? Most of them have confusing and difficult to spell domain adresess or URLs.
It’s […]


LakTEK is joined with Blue Fish Network

One of my new year perspectives was to give more attention to my blog and serve it to much bigger audience. Today I was notified by Blue Fish Network that they have added my blog to their network. I see this as yet another opportunity to expand my blog to a wider audience.
Blue Fish is […]


Keeping the focus

For the first time in this year I’m going to touch my blog. Since I started this blog back in last May, I got great exposure by coming to know various cool people and involving in great projects.  But when I was driven away by more work, attention to blog has been simply neglected. Actually […]


What was the first web site you visited ?

Insipired by the post of Sam I also tried to recollect the memories of early internet experiences. The first web site I visited was www.cricket.org, still I visit the site daily which is now more popular now as cricinfo.com. Connecting to internet using Lanka Internet Prepaid Card with a 28k modem was funny in the […]


What to blog and what to not ?

Blogging is a unique art. Bloggers are not poets or Technical Writers and not even News Reporters. Bloggers are bloggers and blog post should feel like a blog post ! Even though Blogs are reffered as a free media with no bounds, I feel it’s always quite trivial to decide what to blog and what […]


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