LakTEK

I use Claude Code a lot.

This is probably old news, but it went under my radar.

Early this month, my wife and I spent 3-weeks in Japan with our 3-year-old son.

I was on paternity leave for the last couple of weeks, and in between diaper changes, I finally managed to redo my personal website.

Last week, I released Page.REST - an API to extract content from any web page as JSON.

In my last post, I shared why I believe Trello's exit means we are coming to the end of the first wave of SaaS (software as a service).

This week, Atlassian acquired Trello for $425M.

I'm excited to share the details of my latest project - Pragma.

I was 16 when I first wanted to start my own business.

You don't have to be in Silicon Valley to build a great tech company.

Today is my last day at Nitrous.

Last 3 months has been the most exciting and yet challenging period of my life.

On January 1st, from the usual flow of new year wishes in my inbox, a special message stood out: Hi Aya did you use Html for coding websites ?

During the holidays, I spent some time catching up on the developments in ES6 (next version of JavaScript).

Yesterday was officially my final day with Vesess Team.

Last week I was in Singapore, to attend JSCamp.asia.

When I first created Punch, I didn't intend it to be used as a blogging tool.

This was originally published in the November edition of Appliness digital magazine.

Every Sri Lankan you meet today will have only one topic to talk.

While writing a blogging engine based on Punch, I needed to implement a way to extract values from a path based on a permalink pattern defined by the user.

Punch started out as a simple static site generator, which I wrote to use in my own work.

I recently configured Vim to switch to a special writing mode upon opening Markdown files.

There had been lot of buzz around SPDY lately, which is a brand new protocol introduced by Google to make the web faster.

It's been 2 months since I originally released Punch.

Twitter is ditching client-side rendering and moving back to server-side.

Last Monday, myself and Laknath, met with Jervis and his lovely wife Himashini, for what it turned out to be the first unofficial meetup of Punch users.

Process of prototyping a web application is two-fold.

HTML5 presentations are cool and convenient.

Few months ago, I switched this blog from Wordpress to Jekyll.

Though I knew cURL as a powerful tool; so far I never made an attempt to get familiar with it.

Functions are first-class citizens in Go.

In the post about Go Types, I briefly mentioned that Go provides a way to do run-time type inference using interfaces and reflection package.

Regular readers of this blog would know I've been spending my free time to learn Go.

One of the main reasons I embrace Golang is its simple and concise type system.

If you are programming with JavaScript, knowing about ES3, ES5 & Harmony specifications and their usage will be useful.

When you learn Golang, your first encounter with constant declarations can be little confusing. type ByteSize float64 const ( _ = iota // ignore first value by assigning to blank identifier KB ByteSize = 1<<(10*iota) MB GB TB PB

This year I'm going to try a new programming language - Go.

It's almost the end of 2011.

Fundamentally, JavaScript is a functional programming language.

One year after graduation, I hear many of my friends already reminiscing the days as an undergrad and about the freedom we had that time to live our lives the way we want.

For most of you the patterns mentioned below should be nothing new.

Update: I've migrated this blog from Jekyll to Punch.

It's still early morning here in Sri Lanka; I was just starting the day passively glancing over my Twitter feed.

Recently, I've been working on improving the performance of CurdBee API.

I'm writing this post from 30,000ft above the ground, flying back home from Vienna.

Few months ago, we did a major revamp in CurdBee UI.

Behavior reuse is one of the key aspects of Object Oriented programming.

One of my favorite syntactic sugar methods available in Rails is the Object.blank?

It was a year of transition in my life.

Working on OpenNebula's Administration tool in last Google Summer of Code, was one of the best development experiences I had during 2010.