Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport

22 October, 2014 | Airports | 19 seen

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport  is located some 32 km southeast of the city center, airport serves as the hub for AnadoluJet and Pegasus Airlines.

The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the adoptive daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the first female fighter pilot in the world. Although Istanbul Airport, located 63 km (39 mi) west of the European side of Istanbul, is larger, Sabiha Gökçen is still one of the largest airports in the country.

I have been traveling via Sabiha Gokcen Airport several times flying in and out routes like Tbilisi, Trabzon, Izmir, Barcelona, and more. Most of the time flying Pegasus Airlines.

The airport was built because Atatürk International Airport (located on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international).

When traveling to or from Sabiha Gocken airport see How to Get around Istanbul for cheap with this ride-sharing Taxi app

Georgian mythology, Founding Father of Georgia - Kartlos and Jesus Robe in Mtskheta

21 October, 2014 | Living in Georgia | 70 seen

Georgian mythology is a rich tapestry of legends and stories that provide insight into the country's cultural heritage. One of the most interesting myths is the story of Kartlos, the founding father of Georgia.

According to Georgian mythology, Kartlos was the grandson of Japheth, one of Noah's three sons. He was the eldest son of Targamos and great-grandson of King Nimrod. When his father died, Kartlos inherited the kingdom and became the first king of Kartli, which is modern-day Georgia.

The story of Kartlos is deeply intertwined with Georgian culture and history, and he is considered a national hero. His name is still used in modern-day Georgia, and it is the root of the country's name. Kartli, the region where Kartlos ruled, was later called Sakartvelo, which means "the land of Kartlos" in Georgian.

Another important aspect of Georgian mythology is the story of the Jesus Robe in Mtskheta. Mtskheta is a historic city in eastern Georgia that was once the capital of the country. According to legend, the robe that Jesus Christ wore during his crucifixion was brought to Mtskheta by a Georgian Jew named Elioz. He is said to have acquired the robe from a…

Top Laptops for Graphic Design Students and Professionals

20 October, 2014 | Laptop Reviews | 74 seen

If you're a graphic designer, finding the best laptop for your needs can be a daunting task. You need a machine that is powerful enough to run complex design software, has a high-quality display for accurate color reproduction, and is portable enough to take with you on the go.

In this article, we'll take a look at the best laptops for graphic design, and help you find the perfect machine for your needs.

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The Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch is a top pick for graphic designers. It has a stunning Retina display with True Tone technology, which automatically adjusts the color temperature based on your environment. The MacBook Pro also has a powerful 9th-generation 8-core Intel Core i9 processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB solid-state drive. It also has a dedicated AMD Radeon Pro 5500M graphics card, making it a great choice for graphic design.

The Dell XPS 15 is another great option for graphic designers…

Drupal module: User Picture Field - A Brilliant Solution for Styling forms With Display Suite

19 October, 2014 | Drupal Development | 25 seen

Working with complex Drupal projects I'm always trying to escape many rewrites of existing Drupal built-in functionality.

This time I got a client's request to have a user edit form with two-level admin: One for username and password information - the second for custom user profile fields, like occupation, location, gender, etc.

At the start I said - well, let's use the Profile2 module, to handle this task, but soon I found there are bugs, and we all hate bugs, so I found a brilliant solution how to get rid of the Profile2 module, but to keep existing functionality.

Now arrived another problem - how to display the default Drupal user picture ($picture) using the Display suite module on two columns. Thing is, there are no problems to display a custom user image field with help of the Display suite, but there are problems to display the default picture field:

Found this little nice module after a couple of hours of investigating how to show the user picture next to comments. 

You might wonder - hell, what's wrong with you dude - Drupal has a built-in picture field for user profiles and it works on comment forms great…

Grigory Leps: The Russian Musician Who Fell in Love with Georgia

18 October, 2014 | Living in Georgia | 33 seen

Grigory Leps is a well-known Russian singer who has gained immense popularity not only in Russia but also in other parts of the world. Leps has been to Georgia several times for concerts and has garnered a large following among Georgians.

The Georgian people have always had a fondness for Russian culture, and Grigory Leps' music has struck a chord with many. His soulful voice, catchy tunes, and relatable lyrics have made him a favorite of many music enthusiasts in Georgia.

The first time Grigory Leps came to Georgia was in December 7th, 2014 when he performed in the capital city of Tbilisi. We attended this concert at Tbilisi sports palace. I managed to take a short YouTube video with Leps shouting loud - Sakartvelo Gaumarjos.

He was warmly welcomed by the Georgian people, who appreciated his music and his charismatic personality. Since then, he has come back to Georgia for several concerts, and his popularity has only grown.

One of the reasons for Leps' popularity in Georgia is his ability to sing in both Russian and Georgian. He has even recorded a few Georgian songs, which have become quite popular in the country. One of his most famous…

Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport

17 October, 2014 | Airports | 48 seen

Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport is the busiest international airport in Georgia, located 17 km (11 mi) southeast of capital Tbilisi. The airport handled 3.7 million passengers in 2019. Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the airspace of Georgia was closed for most of 2020 causing the number of travelers through Tbilisi airport to drop by 84% to less than 600,000.

Tbilisi Airport is home to Georgian flag carrier Georgian Airways and MyWay Airlines, which was founded in 2017. The airport is served by approximately 30 airlines, mainly from Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia serving roughly 30 destinations out of Tbilisi. 

Due to the increasing popularity of Georgia and the city of Tbilisi as a tourist destination, the number of travelers grew since 2010 from 1 million to almost 4 million until the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Tbilisi International Airport is operated by TAV Urban Georgia since October 2005 which concession has been extended until at least 2027. In Georgia, the company also operates Batumi Airport for a 20-year term since May 2007. TAV Airports Holding, which owns 76% shares in Tbilisi airport operator…

The Impact of EEU Membership on Armenia's Economy

16 October, 2014 | Emerging Markets | 16 seen

Armenia, a small, landlocked country in the South Caucasus, joined the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in 2015. The EEU is an economic bloc that includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia. Joining the EEU marked a significant shift in Armenia's foreign policy and has had major implications for its economy.

One of the primary benefits of joining the EEU was improved access to the Russian market. Russia is a major trading partner for Armenia, and the EEU membership has facilitated the flow of goods and services between the two countries. Additionally, joining the EEU has provided Armenia with a platform for engaging in broader economic integration with the other member states.

However, the EEU membership has also presented some challenges for Armenia. One of the main concerns has been the impact on Armenia's relations with the European Union (EU). Prior to joining the EEU, Armenia had been negotiating an association agreement with the EU, which included provisions for deeper economic integration. However, the decision to join the EEU effectively put an end to those negotiations.

Another issue has been the impact of EEU regulations on the…

Planing a Trip to Spain: How to Get a Prepaid SIM Card in Spain

14 October, 2014 | Travel guides | 64 seen

<p>This weekend I'm going to my first ever trip to Spain. One of the essential things I'll need there is an internet connection. To get a internet I have few options &nbsp;- to chase for some FREE WiFi spots, to connect to internet at hotel.. well that's nice - but I need an internet connection all the time. I must be covered!</p><p><strong>Do I really must be covered?</strong></p><p><strong></strong> Yes, I really must be covered even on my holiday trips. Why? <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/can-you-blog-365-days-row-0">I'm blogging every day</a> - actually it's <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/blog-one-year-anniversary">already second year</a> for me doing such a lame thing as blogging each and every day.</p><p>So I cannot to lay on luck - that I will get some free internet even in Spain.&nbsp;</p><p>So I started to look for my options to get a pre-paid SIM card with internet on it in Spain.</p><p>For a starter - I found an article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Drupal Simple FB connect + User Form Theming

12 October, 2014 | Drupal Development | 56 seen

Lately I have been busy with a project involving a lot of custom coding and programming (mainly because of existing complex web-design)

So at the finish line - there are still few things we must to finish - And one of them involves Facebook Login button to Drupal site.

See: Simple FB connect Drupal 8 Mapping custom fields from Facebook

There are plenty of modules offering such kind of behavior - but problem with those modules  - not always they are updated to the latest Facebook API versions. Speaking of what - ahhh - Facebook sets the rules, when to update and how to update their API - leaving developers to be forced to upgrade for newer versions of their API.

So a while ago I compared 3 Drupal modules offering Facebook connect - in that article I found following:

Simple FB connect seems the easiest one to install and setup:

Drupal Display Suite Two Columns on User Edit Forms + Image Widget Default Image

11 October, 2014 | Drupal Development | 16 seen

<p>Working on a customers project I faced another interesting obstacle (s):</p><ul><li>First to have separate User Admin and User Profile pages</li><li>Second - on user edit pages to display fields on two columns (according to the design).</li></ul><p>So here arises two problems:</p><p><strong>First how to have 2 user profiles and how to style them</strong></p><p>My first approach for two user profiles was using Profiles 2 modules - &nbsp;I must admit - I'm not a huge fan of using such scenarios - they broke - and so did happened this time:</p><p>I did setup a Profile 2 user fields, worked with field permission, &nbsp;like when to hide some of the required fields on user register form.</p><p>So fare everything great -</p><p><strong>but now arises second problem - how to display fields from form in two columns.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>In short - answer comes from <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/ds">Display Suite Module</a> which allows us to style forms as we wish, but it doesn't…

Blog One Year Anniversary

10 October, 2014 | Blogging | 2 seen

A year ago I started a journey called - blogging. I'm not that kind of guys who likes to imagine - what if.. and so by starting my blog a year ago - I asked a question

Can you blog 365 days in a row?

Here is a quick answer a year latter - Yes, You can!

Longer answer - there is no problem to blog every single day 365 days in a row, except force majeure cases, so I skipped 2 days of blogging this year, because I was in the place were no internet connection was available at all.

In my first year of blogging I wrote in total 478 articles

Now - I year ago - I expressed my modest goal to achieve around 6,000 unique visitors a month to my blog - it didn't happened

One year of blog stats (daily)

Above you can see my blogs daily statistics for a time range 10.10.2013-09.10.2014.

As you can see - at start I had a really really slow start - at the last quarter of 2013, my blog attracted less than 200 unique visitors I mean it's damned pretty slow start.

The huge spike - happened at the end of January 2014, when someone posted a…

Facebook Login Button For a Drupal website

8 October, 2014 | Drupal Development | 42 seen

<p>So - another request come from a client - to add a Facebook login button for a Drupal website.</p><p>As for a start it might sound like easy to handle a task - I spent about a week to figure out the best possible solution for this.&nbsp;</p><p>At first we must understand what does - <strong>Facebook login button stands for</strong>?</p><p><em>Is it for user mapping - is it getting some fields from users Facebook's profile?</em></p><p>Anyway - I found 3 possible implementations on Drupal Module's world:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_fb_connect">Simple FB connect</a></li><li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/fboauth">FB Oauth</a></li><li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/fb">FB</a></li></ul><p>Now let's break each and everyone down:</p><p><em>Simple FB connect seems the easiest one to install and setup:</em></p><h2>Simple FB connect</h2><p>Simple FB Connect is a Facebook…

Drupal Menu Badges + Views + Flags + Rules = Counting Messages

8 October, 2014 | Drupal Development | 19 seen

<p>The Drupal project I'm currently working with get's complicated each and every day - so for a start I faced a problem to display dynamic content as menu items - i found a great not to say one of the greate findings this years in field of Drupal development - <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/drupal-create-dynamical-menus-menu-views&q…; target="_blank">Drupal &nbsp;Menu Views</a> , then I faced a problem to display tokens in Menu paths - again a superb solution with help of <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/menu-tokens-module-drupal-site&quot; target="_blank">Menu Tokens module</a>.</p><p>Finaly I faced another Drupal Menu related problem -<strong> to display a comment count in a Dynamical Menu with menu tokens enabled.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>I must admit - I was lucky enough to solve this problem as well - <strong>The Solution</strong> comes from another great Drupal module - Menu Badges</p><h2>About Menu Badges</h2><p><span>Provides a method for adding iOS-style badges to menu items.&nbsp;</span>…

17 Best ACER Laptops You Can Buy Online on Amazon

6 October, 2014 | Laptop Reviews | 35 seen

I still remember days when I bought my first Laptop - it was ACER Travelmate laptop about 12 years ago - it served me for some 2 or 3 years, then I bought my first HP laptop. Good old days.

Now - on this BEST SELLING ACER list you will find 17 great ACER laptops, based on actual user purchases and reviews on Amazon.

Best Selling Acer Laptop Notebook Computers 2019

A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptops listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer on the product page on Amazon.

Powerful and portable, the Aspire 5 laptop delivers on every aspect of everyday computing. Housing the AMD Ryzen 3 3200U Mobile Processor, this Aspire 5 can tackle any job no matter how…

Menu Tokens Module for Drupal Site

5 October, 2014 | Drupal Development | 94 seen

<p>On the project I'm working lately there is need for many not so simple solutions - one of them involves using Profile2 module, for creating a multi level user profile page - like there is one page for e-mail and password, then there is second profile page for personal information and more.</p><p>To handle this tasks, I'm using Profile2 module, what works 90% great - the rest 10% that doesn't works includes - it doesn't integrates well with Panels module - speaking of Panels -<a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/drupal-panels-when-best-used"&gt; I literally avoid them as far as I can</a>. Unfortunately I'm using Panels in this project - not much, but still.</p><p>I already faced a problem of displaying dynamic content in views- then I found an awesome solution - <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/drupal-create-dynamical-menus-menu-views">… Views</a>.</p><p>Today I found another great module - Menu Tokens.</p><h2>So back to the subject</h2><p>So there is need to provide a menu for logged in users, with links to their profile pages.</p…