Archives: Bandwidth

ASP.Net: Reduce Page Size, and Make Pages Load Faster by Storing View State on Server

July 6, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 3 Comments | Filed in: .Net Stuff, Tech.

View state is a mechanism which allow storing data related to the view of the web applications. That includes all data in your controls which is not yet saved to database. But the problem is this can get quite large and take  big bite out of your bandwidth and performance. When to Use View State & How • Read More »

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Moved from Dialog ‘Unlimited’ Student Package to Mobitel Zoom 1290

May 7, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 6 Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Sri Lanka, Tech.

I was a happy customer of a Dialog Mobile Broadband Student Package for more than a year. In fact, after getting my student ID of the MSc program, first thing I did was signing up for a student package (So far its the only useful thing I got from this MSc). Signal reception was pretty damn low • Read More »

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Outlook Could Have Done Better!

February 18, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Tech.

I have used MS Outlook 2007 for some time now. And I had no complains until I try to send a large attachment through it. It was too large to send in one mail because GMail has 25Mb attachment limit. I break it up to 20Mb files using winzip and sent in number of mails. • Read More »

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