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	<description>A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[hackers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruby]]></category>

		<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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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>

		<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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		<category><![CDATA[degree]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[University]]></category>

		<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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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<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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		<title>Ruby Advent Calendar</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/11/30/ruby-advent-calendar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/11/30/ruby-advent-calendar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruby]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the previous incarnations of Ruby advent calendars, I thought of running one for this year. For those who are unaware, idea is simple. To serve an interesting article on Ruby, each day for the first 24 days of December.
We saw lot of cool stuff in the Ruby throughout the year, so it would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want to be a Ruby Hacker…</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/11/21/i-want-to-be-a-ruby-hacker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/11/21/i-want-to-be-a-ruby-hacker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruby]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past couple of months, I heard this from number of my friends. I hope there will be more joining the club in the coming days. For the benefit of the freshers, I thought of sharing some tips I learned about Ruby hacking (though it may sound as obvious to many) .


Write something that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Rails is a Ghetto, Merb is a Whorehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/11/20/if-rails-is-a-ghetto-merb-is-a-whorehouse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/11/20/if-rails-is-a-ghetto-merb-is-a-whorehouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FOSS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[merb]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get confused over the title, I&#8217;m not trying to punch the Merb community as Zed did to Rails. A grasshopper like me don&#8217;t even qualify to do such a rant. I&#8217;m actually trying to pimp Merb!
Merb is the newest addition to Ruby town. First, it was started just to satisfy the unfulfilled desires of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extended-Bort: My base Rails app</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/31/extended-bort-my-base-rails-app/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/31/extended-bort-my-base-rails-app/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bort is an awesome base Rails app, which allows you to get into real action without wasting your time on setting up the most common and boring stuff. It comes with RESTful Authentication, OpenID support, Capistrano Mutli-stage deployments and many other essential plugins, thus lifting good work load. I first got to use Bort when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really Simple Color Picker in jQuery</title>
		<link>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/27/really-simple-color-picker-in-jquery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/10/27/really-simple-color-picker-in-jquery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lakshan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.web2media.net/laktek/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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 [...]]]></description>
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