An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs, work out at the gym, and many more. Here I write about travel, finance, and other things that might interest me.
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Minimum wage in Baltic states
Minimum wages in the Baltic states are the lowest ones in the European Union. In 2013 minimum wage in Baltic states was $427 in Estonia, $379 in Latvia and $385 in Lithuania. Update: Minimum Wage Set to Rise in the Baltic States in 2018 Difference between "richest" Estonia and "poorest" Latvia in 2013, in terms of minimum wage, was = $48 Estonia has announced to increase its minimum wage by 35 EUR both in 2014 and 2015. In 2014 minimum…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 10 - Views exposed filters
<p>Remember at start of this tutorial <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-1-planing">we created a tour types taxonomy</a>, by allowing asign a category for each node from content type tour? Today we gonna add these values to our tours page, by allowing for users to filer tours by their type:</p><p> </p><p>Open your view tour, and under filter settings…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 9 - adding menu
<p>To add a menu to your Drupal site, you should enable menu module from your modules page:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/enablemenu.JPG" alt="" width="1162" height="169"></p><p> </p><p>When enabled, head to admin/structure/menu/manage/main-menu and a few menu links:</p><p><img src="http…
Population changes in former Soviet Union
15 former Soviet Union republics, then and now. In 1990 in the Soviet Union lived 287.728 million people. In 2012 in the former republics lived 290.587 million people, which is 0.98% increase. A pretty small increase for 22 years. The thing is, not all former Soviet republics have developed equally in next 22 years, since the collapse of Soviet Union. Countries with population decrease: Country 1990 2012 Change mln %…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 8 - Theming subtheme CSS
<p>In part 2 of series how to build a Drupal site from scratch, I'm talking about how to create a subtheme from Bootstrap theme.</p><p>Today I would like to speak how to actually theme it, because just enabled it comes empty,with all files served from Bootstrap mater theme.</p><p>By default Bootstrap theme is set to be 1200px and wider, this is first thing I would like to change for our customers tourism…
Vilnius - Kutaisi flight will start April 2014
<p>Low fare airline company Wizz Air has announced, that starting April 1st, 2014 a new route will be opened, serving Vilnius, Lithuania - Kutaisi, Georgia.</p><p><a href="http://wizzair.com/en-GB/TimeTable/Vilnius/Kutaisi">Tickets can be bought already, and they cost about 50 EUR one way.</a></p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/wizair.JPG…
Drupal views archive page
<p>Today I decided to give some face-lift to my blog page. I wanted to add an archive function to filter blog posts by month. If you have views enabled, you can use default view archive, which comes with views.</p><p>Since I already had created a page blog, I didn't see any use to use 2 identical views - archive and blog. So I didn't enabled archive view, instead I fine tuned my existing blog page view:</p><p…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 7 - Theming views
<p>In <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-5-custom-fro… 4</a> in tutorial series how to build a Drupal site from scratch, I am showing how to build views. Now let's upgrade them, by adding additional fields and even CSS style.</p><p>Yes, we will add CSS style directly into our views.</p><p>Lets go back to our view tours (if you are new to this series, please read…
Week #5 of blogging 365 days in a row
<p>Fifth week of <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/can-you-blog-365-days-row">blogging 365 days in row</a> has already passed away. I need to confess - without future posting feature, nothing wouldn't work out. There are days, I'm not even looking into my blog, don't speaking of writing a content.</p><p>At the end of October I created a dozen of posts, to publish till middle of November.…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 6 - Working with blocks
<p>In <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-4-creating-v… 4</a> of this Drupal tutorial series we created a view with block - Features tours. Now is the right time, to do something with this block. And we gonna put this block on our <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-5-custom-fro… access blocks section in your Drupal site, head to structure/block:</p…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 5 - Custom fronpage
<p>By default Drupal comes with frontpage set to display latest 10 nodes from your site:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/frontpagedrupal.png" alt="" width="632" height="573"></p><p>Which might be ok, if you are runing some blog, but if you are looking the ways how to change default frontpage, you must take a look under system/site-…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 4 - Creating views
<p>Let's move on with our tourism companies website tutorial.</p><p>In part 1 we created a custom content type - Tours, now it's time to make a few views which will contain data from node related to content type - tours.</p><p>Before creating views - we must download a few modules, to get them work:</p><ul><li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/views">Download Views</a…
10 largest countries by military expenditures 2012
In a world shaped by geopolitical dynamics, military spending plays a pivotal role in defining a nation's strategic capabilities. Let's delve into the realm of defense budgets and unveil the top 10 countries that invest significantly in their military apparatus.1. The World's Top 10 Richest Countries by Military Expenditures:United States: $682.478 billionChina: $166.107 billionRussia: $90.749 billionUnited Kingdom: $61.007 billionJapan: $59.267…
Week #4 of blogging 365 days in a row
<p>3d week of blogging resulted in 15 blog posts. Nothing much to tell more.</p><p>At the end of 3d week I realized there is need to implement some Twitter strategies, do drive traffic to my blog. Decided to use Twitter strategy for whole month of November.</p><p> </p>
Dauphinoise potatoes
Time by time, I like to experiment with food preparation, this time I decided to make a Dauphinoise potato, inspired by BBC Good Food recipe. As it might happen, it happened this time as well - I didn't stick to BBC food preparation methodology. What did I do? I sliced potatoes, made a bechamel sauce. Took a pan, made the first layer with bechamel sauce, few rows with sliced potatoes, again bechamel sauce, salt, and pepper, again sliced…