LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

Implementing Web Socket servers with Node.js

Web Sockets are one of the most interesting features included in HTML5 spec. It would open up a whole different paradigm in web application development by allowing asynchronous, long-lived connections between client and server. As Web Sockets were supported in Google Chrome’s beta release, it signaled now the time to use it in your apps.
However, […]


Really Simple Color Picker in jQuery

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 […]


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 […]


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 […]