LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

The tools I use

Here is the list of tools I use for my day to day activities.

Machine : Compaq Presario v3000
OS : Ubuntu 6.10 (Primary OS), Windows XP Media Center (OEM version, keeping it for testing)
Editor : Scribes (It’s becoming the TextMate for GNU ! awesome editor)
Browser : Firefox 2, Opera
CLI : Bash
Web Host : Dreamhost
Framework : Ruby […]

Hacking made easy with Google Code Search

I was so bored while studing for the exams and just hit on this new Google Code Search. Oh! do you know what I was able to extract with several keyword combinations ? Whole bunch of FTP access and Database connection credentials of sites which are currently live on the net. Those credentials seems to […]

They know where you’ve been……

I stumbled on this critical exploit (or rather smart technique) while I was visiting “How Web2.0 - Aware are you ??” They calculated a percentage based on the sites I have visited out of the 42 sites that were on their list. So how did they knew I visited these site ? Yeah they sniff […]

Sri Lanka becoming a FOSS giant in Asia ?

Recently Google has released a report with the statistics of the Google Summer of Code 2006 (FYI : It’s a program where Google pay for students for working on various open-source projects). According to this report Sri Lanka comes under top 20 countries with highest accepted students and highest number of applications. It seems 10 […]

Adding Power to the Backend…

Web 2.0 is all about Web Applications; Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Groups and other custom made web apps have made the life easy. Web Application development has it’s own recipe. It’s regarded as the use of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript for front end is the best practice, but for the backend you have the option of […]