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Moving WordPress – My Story!

October 24, 2011 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Tech.

Well! this topic is well covered here, and probably repeated all over the web. But I am going to write this post any way. Because my WordPress move went quite well. And here is how it was done. Everything Starts with Taking a Backup A move is as simple as a backup and restore. You back up • Read More »

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Buying Local is Overrated, At least for Web Hosting!

October 23, 2011 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Sri Lanka, Tech.

When it comes to buying services and complex products I always prefer buying from a local seller. This makes it easy to communicate and handle any matter that might come up when using the product or service that we buy. But in some cases the typical Sri Lankan customer relationship attitude make it a nightmare. This happened way too often with my • Read More »

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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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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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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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