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nikosd / greeklish.rb

Created November 14, 2008 17:03

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'activesupport'
	$KCODE = 'u'

	class String
	# Converts the Greek Unicode characters contained in the string
	# to latin ones (aka greeklish) and returns self.
	# For unobstructive conversion call the non-bang method 'greeklish'
	#
	# example:

nikosd / el-GR.yml

Created November 10, 2008 23:36

Localization file for Globalite Rails Plugin (Greek Language)

	locale_name: "Ελληνικά (Ελλάδα)"
	# ActiveRecord::Errors.default_error_messages
	error_message_inclusion: "δεν συμπεριλαμβάνεται στην λίστα"
	error_message_exclusion: "είναι δεσμευμένο"
	error_message_invalid: "δεν είναι έγκυρο"
	error_message_confirmation: "δεν ταιριάζει με την επαλήθευση"
	error_message_accepted: "πρέπει να γίνει αποδεκτό"
	error_message_empty: "δε μπορεί να είναι άδειο"
	error_message_blank: "δε μπορεί να είναι κενό"
	error_message_too_long: "είναι πολύ μεγάλο (ο μέγιστος αριθμός χαρακτήρων είναι %d )"

nikosd / using_fake_first-letter_selector_complete.html

Created November 2, 2008 14:30

	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
	<title>sIFR pseudo class</title>

	<link rel="stylesheet" href="all.css" type="text/css" media="all">
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/sifr.css" type="text/css">

nikosd / passing_the_pseudo_class_option_to_sIFR.js

Created November 2, 2008 14:23

	sIFR.replace(paris_aifel, {
	selector: 'h1'
	,css: [
	'.sIFR-root { text-align: center; font-weight: bold; }'
	,'a { text-decoration: none; }'
	,'a:link { color: #660000; }'
	,'a:hover { color: #993333; }'
	,'.first-letter { font-style: normal; color: #000000; }' /* This is the important part */
	]
	});

nikosd / fake_first-letter_selector.js

Created November 2, 2008 14:20

	// Using jQuery Events and Selectors
	$(document).ready(function(){
	var original_content = $('div#container h1 a').html();
	var with_fake_first_letter = '<span class="first-letter">'
	+ original_content.slice(0,1)
	+ '</span>'
	+ original_content.slice(1,original_content.length - 1);
	$('div#container h1 a').html(with_fake_first_letter);
	});

nikosd / simple_html_file.html

Created November 2, 2008 14:19

nikosd / Bar chart with Gruff and most of options used.rb

Created October 10, 2008 14:42

	#!/usr/bin/ruby

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'gruff'

	# Let's hack almost everything
	g = Gruff::Bar.new('800x700') # Define a custom size

	g.sort = false # Do NOT sort data based on values
	g.maximum_value = 40 # Declare a max value for the Y axis

nikosd / A little more advanced bar chart with Gruff.rb

Created October 10, 2008 14:38

	#!/usr/bin/ruby

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'gruff'

	# With more options now
	g = Gruff::Bar.new('800x500') # Define a custom size

	g.sort = false # Do NOT sort data based on values
	g.maximum_value = 50 # Declare a max value for the Y axis

nikosd / Simple bar chart with Gruff.rb

Created October 10, 2008 14:36

Nikos Dimitrakopoulos nikosd