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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Three of My Posts are on Sunday Leader Web!

June 25, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Me, Myself & I.

After moving my blog to its new home I spent some time to figure out a way to improve search engine ranking of the new URL over the old URL. In the process I did some searches for term ‘rakasunivers’ on Google, hoping to find out places that are referring to my blog. And I found a pleasant surprise. Three • Read More »

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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 »

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Worshiping Sun God at Galle Face Green

June 21, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Environment, Me, Myself & I, Photography, Sri Lanka, Travel.

I captured this image with my mobile phone sometimes back (18-April-2010) when I was at Galle Face Green. I was just trying to capture the evening sky. I could not do a good job on it as the lighting was little low for my phone to handle and I was pointing the cam directly at • Read More »

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New Domain, New Host, New WordPress…!

June 20, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 3 Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I.

Well, couple of days ago I felt like moving my blog off the free WordPress.com hosting. I did not have a real need of it, but I just felt bit restricted by all the restrictions there. Not that I could not live with those restrictions, but my mind just hit some kind of a critical point at which it made • Read More »

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