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Automatically Add Name Attribute for Google Syntax Highlighter

July 12, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 7 Comments | Filed in: JavaScript, Tech.

If you write programming related posts in your blog, you are most probably using Google Syntax Highlighter to highlight your code snippets. In case if you don’t, it’s a set of javascripts that allows you to add syntax highlighting for source code that you post on your blog. It supports a large number of programming languages. After • Read More »

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Java Zip API: How to Create a Zip File Using Java

July 11, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 5 Comments | Filed in: Java Stuff, Tech.

This is a follow-up to my earlier post “Java Zip API: How to Read a Zip File Using Java“. This time it’s about how to create a zip file using Java. This is even simpler than reading a zip file. Following is a very simple example which create a zip file named RaKasUniverse.zip. Inside that • Read More »

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YouTube: Wavin’ Flag – Bradby Mix – At Royal Parade 2010, Street Party

July 7, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Royal College, Sri Lanka.

Royal College Orchestra put up a brilliant show at Royal Parade Street Party 2010. This was my favorite part of Street Party. Just felt like sharing! Viraga Perera & Sanchita Wickremesooriya backed by the Royal College Orchestra performs their version of the Wavin’ Flag (originally by K’Naan) to celebrate Royal College 175th Anniversary at the Street Party • Read More »

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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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Royal Parade 2010 & Street Party – Photos & Afterthoughts

July 5, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Photography, Royal College, Sri Lanka.

Royal Parade 2010 and Street Party was held on 3rd July 2010 as a part of 175th anniversary celebrations of Royal College. It was a grand event by any definition. Probably the festive atmosphere was even bigger than IIFA. And I am glad that I did not miss it. It was very interesting to see other schools participating • Read More »

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FM Royal 2010 – 175th Anniversary Celebrations Broadcast is Now “On Air”

July 2, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Royal College, Sri Lanka.

Royal College, Radio Club is broadcasting “FM Royal” radio channel parallel to Royal Parade 2010 and “Party On The Street” as a part of Royal College 175th Anniversary Celebrations. It will be on air from 1st of July through 3rd July 2010 on 96.1 MHz FM. Apart from Colombo broadcast there are two relay broadcasts from • Read More »

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A WALK FOR A PURPOSE – THE ROYAL PARADE 2010 – Only Two Days Away

July 1, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Education, Royal College, Sri Lanka.

Royal College which started in year 1835 is celebrating its 175th anniversary in year 2010. Need not to say that this is a massive milestone and time to celebrate service rendered by Royal College to its past and present students, and to this country. Royal Parade 2010 and “Party on the Street” will be happening on 3rd July • Read More »

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