LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

Refactoring Catalog

Refactoring holds same level of importance as coding the behavior.  I enjoy refactoring my code as it leads to much cleaner code and also gives you the knowledge of how to do something better. But identifying what and where to refactor is something that a programmer gains through the practice.
Recently I found a great catalog […]


Early Bird view to Google Summer of Code Project Ideas

As most of you may aware (or not) Google Summer of Code for 2007 has been announced. This year I’m eager to apply for a project, eventhough I’m not sure whetehr I will get accepted. Anyway project ideas of accepted mentoring organizations will be released only on 14th March and student application period will be […]


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 […]


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 […]