Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Shell script to extract the exchange rates from BNR (Romania)

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Here is a simple script to get the exchange rates from www.bnro.ro/nbrfxrates.xml   #!/bin/bash # clear the screen clear # display an info message echo "+------------------------------+" echo "|        BNR exchange   |" echo "+------------------------------+" # check for parameters if [ $# -ne 1 ] then echo "Usage: $0 eur  ...

Internet Explorer bug – duplicate characters

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

One of Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 bugs, consists in repeating (duplicating) some characters from the end of some elements with the CSS atribute - float. What's triggering this bug: Using HTML comments inserted between the elemens with the float attribute. Hidden elements using display: none Solutions to prevent the duplication of the ...

How to create a simple shell script

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Here is a simple example of creating and running (executing) a shell script. This script will display the numbers from 1 to 10. Creating the script: With any text editor (Gedit for Gnome, Kate for KDE, nano): #/bin/bash for ((i = 1; i

Diacritics in web pages

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

The usage of diacritics in web pages requires Unicode encoding. In the head section of the page (between <head> and </head>) you need to insert this line: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Here is a list with the corresponding HTML codes of the romanian diacritics : ă > ă Ă > Ă î > ...