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		<title>First Meetup of LK Ruby User Group</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/10/01/first-meetup-of-lk-ruby-user-group/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday (30th September 2009), the first-ever meatspace gathering of Sri Lankan Ruby Users was held at Ridgecrest Asia (Pvt) Ltd. There were more than 20 passionate, enthusiastic Rubyists filling the room and I would call it a promising start.
For several years, myself personally knew only handful of Rubyists in the country. Though, we had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/08/08/independent-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Independent thinking and self-concious decision making is what builds a person and the society. Yet, it&#8217;s the most discouraged, criticised and often punishable act that a person can do. Our culture has done a nice job by misinterpreting and abusing values - such as obedience, loyalty and teamwork to suppress the importance of independent thinking.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Schools &amp; Education!</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/07/28/ban-schools-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/07/28/ban-schools-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very sad and alarming to hear the recent incidents taking place at Sri Lankan schools. Government shows they are so concerned about these issues by banning everything they believe that can harm our next generation :) Mobile phones at all schools are banned, Web Sites with explicit content are banned, screening of &#8220;Adults only&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six virtues of being an IT undergrad…</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/07/08/six-virtues-of-it-undergrad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/07/08/six-virtues-of-it-undergrad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were one of the early readers of my blog, you would know that I was selected to do my Bachelors in IT at Faculty of Information Technology in University of Moratuwa. It&#8217;s hard to believe 3 years have gone pass in a flash, but reminiscing what I gathered during this period it feels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sticking to Basics</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/07/07/sticking-to-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Test Cricket. I believe it has very close resemblance to our real lives, and it gives so much of inspiration. Sri Lanka&#8217;s remarkable victory today against Pakistan after being at the jaws of defeat, yet another classic example for that. Pakistan were dominating in first 3 days of the game and it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Rails Tips] Reduce Queries in ActiveRecord with :group</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/06/13/rails-tips-active-record-querying-be-smart-and-vigilent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/06/13/rails-tips-active-record-querying-be-smart-and-vigilent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought of sharing some tips in Ruby on Rails development, which would come in handy especially if you are a newbie.  The cornerstone of all of Rails&#8217; magic is ActiveRecord. As you know it&#8217;s an ORM, which hides all cumbersome and mundane SQL by a syntactic sugar coating. However, blind and lazy usage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruby Best Practices</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/04/14/ruby-best-practices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/04/14/ruby-best-practices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get mocked!</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/02/25/get-mocked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/02/25/get-mocked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first few days doing Maths in Advanced Levels was a nightmare. I usually sucked in Maths in high school and only because of my strong passion for IT made me do Maths (thats the only way in Sri Lanka to gain higher education in IT). I couldn&#8217;t grasp a single shit, other than knowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professional Education is Bullshit!</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/01/16/professional-education-is-bullshit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/01/16/professional-education-is-bullshit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my university colleagues has this craze of following various professional education courses and certifications. They call it CIMA, BIT, BCS, ACS, SCJP, CCNA, MSDN, PMP and the list goes on. I don&#8217;t get the rationale behind this, What&#8217;s the benefit of having all these qualifications? What exactly you gain by spending such hefty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belated Resolutions</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/01/11/belated-resolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2009/01/11/belated-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is almost mid January and still this is the first post for new year. I&#8217;m looking at 2009 to be a switching year in my life. The days of adolescence have almost comes to its&#8217; end and real life responsibilities seems to be creeping up. The days for bullshitting are numbered, and &#8220;I&#8217;m still [...]]]></description>
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