Code Highlighting

Highlighted code in my samples

I found excellent javascript project. It was written by Alex Gorbatchev, and it is free (Thanks Alex!). I will use it to highlight code samples. There is no need to host JS and CSS inside your blog system, you can just reference files instead.
The most popular programming languages are supported here

You can download project and use it in your web sites or you can use hosted version of highlighter. Unfortunately, Google blog system doesn't allow you to insert link tag, but I have used loadjscssfile function to load script and css files.
Lets test hosted version: (javascript example) Here is a function that loads scripts and css.

function loadjscssfile(filename, filetype)
{
   if (filetype=="js"){
       var fileref=document.createElement('script')
       fileref.setAttribute("type","text/javascript")
       fileref.setAttribute("src", filename)
   } 
   else if (filetype=="css"){
       var fileref=document.createElement("link")
             fileref.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet")
             fileref.setAttribute("type", "text/css") 
             fileref.setAttribute("href", filename)
   } 
   if (typeof fileref!="undefined"){
      document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(fileref)
   }
} 

var pathToScript = "http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/"; 
loadjscssfile(pathToScript + "styles/shCore.css", "css"); 
loadjscssfile(pathToScript + "styles/shThemeDefault.css", "css"); 
loadjscssfile(pathToScript + "scripts/shCore.js", "js"); 
loadjscssfile(pathToScript + "scripts/shBrushJava.js", "js"); 
loadjscssfile(pathToScript + "scripts/shBrushJScript.js","js"); 

Android Java example:

import android.widget.TextView;
public class TestClass {
    private static final int[] LAYOUTS = new int[] {
        R.layout.center,
        R.layout.left, 
        R.layout.right 
    private final Context _context;
    private final ArrayList _data = new ArrayList();
    public TestClass(Context context, ArrayList data){ 
        _context = context;
        _data.addAll( data );
  
    }
}
 

Google Translation

I would like to share a Google Translate JavaScript plug-in.
To add a translation to your web pages you can use JavaScript and Google translate services.


Here is a sample that add a translate combo box to your page:
// define div tag where translation combobox will be placed
<div id="google_translate_element">
</div>


// define "new" translate element function  
<script>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
  new google.translate.TranslateElement({
    pageLanguage: 'uk',
    includedLanguages: 'et,tl',
  }, 'google_translate_element');
}</script>


// add all necessary sources to do the translation 
<script src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>

pros:
- easy to use 
- using it you can create a copy of your blog/site to other languages 

cons:
- not all languages supported 
- engine itself is quite new and translation is not perfect


if you need translation to any language remove includedLanguages parameter

There are some useful links that may help you with building your copy:

• Simple and vary helpful generator of Google JavaScript code 
• Google Translate API JavaScript Reference  
• Translator Toolket you are able to translate html pages and correct translations. Interface is similar to Google Docs