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Moving from WordPress.com to Own Hosting – Installing Essential Plugins

July 7, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 4 Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Tech.

Moving to own hosting gives you full control to do pretty much anything under the code of conduct of your new host. And having a domain of your own is kind of cool :). But be careful when you ask for full control! Because you will get exactly full control. And you will be on your own. WordPress.com installs a • Read More »

Tags: AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button, Akismet, All in One Webmaster, Essential Plugins, Faveicon, Filosofo Gravatars, Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress, Google XML Sitemaps, Gravatar, Gravatar Favicon, Login LockDown, OpenID, Own Hosting, Plugin, Snap Shots™ Plugin for WordPress.org, Social Bookmarking, Ultimate Google Analytics, Website Snap Shots, WordPress, WordPress Admin Bar, WordPress.com, WordPress.com Stats, WordPress.com Stats Helper, YARPP, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

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 »

Tags: .Net, ASP.Net, ASP.Net Control, Bandwidth, C++, C-Sharp, Control Adapter, ControlAdapter, Hidden Field, LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium, LosFormatter, Page Adapter, Page Load Delay, Page Load Speed, Page Size, PageAdapter, Payload Size, Programming, SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium, Security, Speed, View State, ViewState, Viewstatemanager, Web Application, Web Development

Moving from WordPress.com to Own Hosting – Getting It Up and Running

June 25, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 5 Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Tech.

I just moved this blog to RaKasUniverse.info domain from a free blog at WordPress.com. When I moved the domain I also moved to own hosting. Reasons for this is not 100% clear even for me. I was a bit frustrated about not being able to install my own plug-ins, not being able to write java • Read More »

Tags: cPanel, Fantastico, Hosting, Import/Export, Install Wordpress, Move, Moving, Own Hosting, WordPress, WordPress.com

Fun with Java Reflections: Access Private Member Fields/Methods of other Classes

June 12, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Java Stuff.

This is a follow-up to my earlier post on Java Reflections. In the earlier post I just showed how to invoke methods of an object dynamically using reflection. Here I am going to talk about accessing attributes of another object using reflection, with a little twist. Just like my earlier post I’ll start this with • Read More »

Tags: access private fields, access private methods, java, Java Programming, Java Reflections, java.lang.Class, java.lang.reflect, java.lang.reflect.Field, private access specifier, private member access, Programming, Reflections, setAccessible

Java Core API: Introduction to Java Reflections

June 12, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 6 Comments | Filed in: Java Stuff.

Here is an exercise for you! Write a java program that take two or more command line arguments. 1st argument is a class name. 2nd argument is a method name. Rest of the arguments are string values to be passed in to that method. Your program has to load the class specified in first argument • Read More »

Tags: java, Java Programming, java.lang.Class, java.lang.reflect, java.lang.reflect.Constructor, java.lang.reflect.Method, Programming, reflect, Reflection

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

June 11, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 3 Comments | Filed in: Java Stuff.

Java API give a very simple set of classes to deal with zip files in its java.util.zip package. I am just going to show how to access the content of a zip file using these classes. Basically in java point of view a zip file is a collection of zip entries. you just select the • Read More »

Tags: java, java.util.zip, Zip, ZipEntry, ZipFile

Me, My Self and Java

June 11, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Java Stuff, Me, Myself & I, Tech.

Programming is my main hobby. I wrote my first computer program when I was 11 years old. Then I was using GW BBASIC. Since then I have learned QBASIC, Pascal, Visual Basic, Perl, Java, PLSQL, C++, PHP, C#, bit of Python and many other things over time. I screwed up my A/L for it but • Read More »

Tags: ASP, BASIC, C++, Computer Programming, Evil, GW BASIC, java, Multiple Inheritance, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL SQL, PLSQL, Pointer Arithmatics, Programming, Python Pointers, QBASIC, RegEx, Regular Expressions, Visual Basic

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 »

Tags: Bandwidth, Dialog Broadband, Dialog GSM, Dialog Telekom, M3, Mobile Broadband, Mobitel, Private IP Address, Public IP Address, Sri Lanka, Unlimited Student Package, Zoom 1290

Free Tool to Bulk Convert JPG, PNG, GIF Images to PDF

April 14, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 3 Comments | Filed in: Tech.

WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY SINGHALA AND HINDU NEW YEAR!!! 🙂 This post is about a very simple tool that I wrote in 2007 when we were studying at SLIIT. I published this at the time on Google Code. But I noticed that not many people are finding it there. Thats why I am posting • Read More »

Tags: Convert, gif, giff, iText, java, jpe, jpeg, JPG, Latex, PDF, png, Portable Document Format, SLIIT

How I Upload Photos to Facebook: Automated Bulk Image Resizing and Adding Copyright Notices

April 13, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Sri Lanka, Tech.

If you are using a super fast internet connection. And you have plenty of time to add copyright notices to photos one at a time, this post is not for you. I am using a crappy internet connection. I also find that java based face book photo uploader takes a long time compared to the • Read More »

Tags: Add Copyright Notice, Automate, Bulk Image Processing, Bulk Resize, Copyright, Copyright Notice, Crop, Facebook, java, JPG, Photography, Photos, Resize, Software, Upload