LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

The Best Role Model of Our Time

“Who is the biggest role model of your life?” My answer to that question would be Muttiah Muralitharan. I know that answer would confuse most of you. You would expect a geek like me to name some one like Linus Torlvards, Yukihiro Matsumoto or Sergy Brin and Larry Page as a role model. But […]


Ruby Best Practices

First of all sorry for letting this space go on a hiatus yet again.. Though I tried to make it a habit of posting regularly, other priorities didn’t allow me to do it as I wish. In last few months I had to run through lot of challenges in real life and in hacking, which […]


Startups and Real Life

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’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 […]


JAVA to traded in Stock Market ??

Jonathan Schwartz has announced that SUN microsystems is going to change their stock trading symbol from SUNW to JAVA. This move gives an implicit meaning that the Java technology is going to be traded and people would be fooled to believe they are going to own the shares of JAVA technology not SUN microsystems. One […]


Love Puzzles ? Try these…

Warning : These may be quite addictive and would require you to consume lot of brainpower :)
Da Vinci’s Other Code - http://www.coudal.com/davinci.php
School of Government - http://www.coudal.com/theotherfish.php
Einstein’s Fish Puzzle - http://www.coudal.com/thefish.php
AND
Which Porn Star Ate the Most Hot Dogs? - http://www.coudal.com/hotdog.php
(via Coudal Partners)