Church of the Archangels of Mchadijvari

23 June, 2020 | Churches and Monasteries | 14 seen

Mchadijvari Archangels Church is an architectural and historical monument in Georgia,  in the center of the village of Mchadijvari. 

We discovered this church when searching for the poppy fields in Georgia, at the start of June 2020 (hint poppy fields are next to the church, some 5000 meters on the right.

Church of the Archangels of Mchadijvari

The above picture is made from the Dusheti - Mchadijvari-Odzisi highway site. This time we actually didn't visited the cathedral, but here is what I was able to find out from Georgian Wikipedia

There is a construction inscription on the church. According to the inscription, the church was built in 1668 by Domenti Catholicos, and the castle-fence by Constantine Mukhranbaton in 1746 .

Shortly after the construction of the church, during one of the raids on Kartli, the Leks surrounded the village of Mchadijvari, but the church survived the demolition. In 1746, Constantine Mukhranbaton rebuilt the village and built a fortress around the church of Mchadijvari: "to be built and…

Khatsiri Forest Park

20 June, 2020 | Tourism objects | 23 seen

Khatsiri Forest park is a nice recreational area next to the town of Tianeti in Georgia. 

We discovered this place by accident after spending a day at Kuzh Park in Tianeti (sometimes we love to drive to the Tianeti town to walk in the Kuzh park with our baby girl).

Way back home to Tbilisi we decided to make a stop here at Khatsiri Forest Park - let me say in one word - WOW. I was impressed.

Picnic area at Khatsiri Forest park

We are planning to come here often and make a picnic quite often. Also this is yet another addition to our picnic places around Georgia.

View to the town of Tianeti

Local farmers are grazings cows and sheep in these meadows.

There is a little church a top of the hill

i didn't find much information online about this place, but if you happen be around town of Tianeti, give it a try.

Pine trees at Khatsiri forest park

Minimum Wages in European Union 2020

19 June, 2020 | Macroeconomics | 16 seen

In 2020 there were 21 out of 27 European Union member states with an official minimum wage set by the government.

In this article I've listed them all, also this is the first year I'm not including data for the UK in this table

Turns out this is already the seventh (#7) article about minimum wages in European Union featured on the blog.

Eat For Fit - Healty Food Home Delivery in Tbilisi

18 June, 2020 | Living in Georgia | 161 seen

Eat for fit is my favorite healthy food home delivery service here in Tbilisi.

Recently these loss-weight / dietary food delivery companies have started to pop up like mushrooms in the forest after the rain here in Tbilisi. We have tried a dietary menu from Eat for fit twice - and both times the result has been excellent. 

One thing should be added - we are the gym goers - and the great weight-loss results comes both from the physical activities and well-balanced food. Eat for Fit are great with calories counting and they cook really delicious food. There has not been a day I felt starvation. All was well calculated and prepared individually. 

We paid about GEL 32 (February 2020) for 5 meals for a day, meals were delivered using Glovo courier service every evening for the next day.

Eat for Fit packaging

Each day there were 5 items, like for breakfast, dinner, snacks, and supper. For snacks, there were fruits and dietary fitness snacks.

Cottage cheese with dills

When the meal plan was made - Eat For Fit asked is there some food I don't like and if there…

Tsilkani cathedral

16 June, 2020 | Churches and Monasteries | 37 seen

The Tsilkani cathedral of the Mother of God is a Georgian Orthodox church in the village of Tsilkani, Mtskheta Municipality, in Georgia's eastern region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti.

Originally built in the 4th century, the church was repeatedly remodeled in the Middle Ages. The extant edifice is a domed cross-in-square design, contained in a walled enclosure with corner towers. It is inscribed on the list of the Immovable Cultural Monuments of National Significance.

We discovered this church in early June 2020, when traveling the Natkhtari - Tsilkani - Mukhrani highway (we were in the searches for poppy fields, which we later found some 10 km from this church)

Tsilkani Cathedral

The Tsilkani cathedral stands in the centre of the eponymous village—northwest of the ancient city of Mtskheta—on the left bank of the Narekvavi, a tributary of the Aragvi River. The village, home to a Late Bronze Age burial mound and other archaeological finds, is also notable for a 4th–5th-century Christian crypt, with a Greek inscription on its wall

Church…

How to Install Drupal with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 - Linode Guide

13 June, 2020 | Servers | 133 seen

In this article, you will learn how to setup webserver for serving  Drupal  websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04

For the following tutorial, I used very much the information from my previous guide with Ubuntu 18.04, but I decided to rewrite it for Ubuntu 20.04 version as it is shipped with php7.4 version and will work for Drupal 7, Drupal 8 and most probably for Drupal 9

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu 20.04 
• Root privileges.

You can get a cheap VPS starting just $5/mo from Linode. That's what I did - bought a new nanode from Linode

Deploying server with Linode

Literally in a couple of seconds, the new server was up and running - that's what I love sticking with Linode for years

Follow basic security guide, see: Securing Your Server

I will use Putty for Windows to access SSH

Create the user, replacing example_user with your desired username. You’ll then be asked to assign the user a password:

Add the user to the sudo group so…

File Permissions for gmap_markers.js

12 June, 2020 | Drupal Development | 13 seen

Time after time I'm facing this issue with gmap markers. As mostly this happens when I'm doing something on the server side with file permissions, I decided to keep the notes

here is the problem

Here is the solution

Simple CSS trick to Make Table Responsive

11 June, 2020 | Drupal Development | 51 seen

Working on the OptionsBrew.com project (website is powered by Drupal 8) I faced the following responsive table issue while browsing content with a table on smaller screens (phone)

Broken Table on a smaller screen

Luckily there is a simple CSS workaround:

in the .css file add the following to table properties:

like this:

here is how it looks now

Responsive table

You can see a live example here: Top 20 Most Active Stock Options May 2020

Poppy fields near Marneuli

6 June, 2020 | | 95 seen

We love poppy fields, we have featured them a couple of times here at the Piece of Life series

• Beautiful Poppy Field Near P104 (Jaunpils-Tukums) Road (Latvia)
• Railroad crossing in Skrunda municipality, Latvia

Today we are going to share a brief photo story with poppy field near Marneuli, next to the Милена Оптовый Магазин (Milena mall)

It was one of the first days when travel restrictions between Georgia's inner cities were lifted and we decided to head to the Marneuli side looking for poppy fields (my partner have seen online some beautiful photos of poppies the day before). I love these wandering around days.

We didn't find the special poppy field, instead we found poppies. Surprisingly we made a lot of great family portraits here rich with poppies  in the background.

Poppy fields next to the Milena Shopping mall near Marneuli

Quite an interesting stop here, we spent about an hour in this flower field.

Poppy field

That was a nice day at the end of May 2020.

Drupal 7 Fix: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1231 Variable 'sql_mode' can't be set to the value of 'NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER'.

5 June, 2020 | Drupal Development | 1,129 seen

I was migrating Drupal 7 website to a newer infrastructure (PHP 7.4) and during the migration process when tried to connect to the MySQL database  I faced following error - SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1231 Variable 'sql_mode' can't be set to the value of 'NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER'.

Here is the error code:

No_auto_create_user

After quick research I was able to find a patch (Mysql 8 Support on Drupal 7 #24)  which involves overwriting core database.inc file (inclues/database/mysql - > database.inc)

here I'…

May 2020 Dividend Income Report - $225.17

3 June, 2020 | Investments | 18 seen

Welcome to the thirty-seventh (#37) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in May 2020.

Just like the previous month of April, in May we also spent in a self-isolation (because of Covid-19) here in Georgia. Some of the strict lockdown measurements were lifted (like using a private vehicle and going from city to city)  we did a few road trips here in Georgia.  Baby girl is doing her online class, learning about animals, shapes, continents, and even planets. Quite fascinating what a 22-month-old can do. Development is very rapid.

Saint Dimitri Tesalonikeli Fathers Moanstery near Mtksheta

May come with very sad news - my dad passed away, some 11 days before his 66 year birthday. My dad was like a best buddy to me, we talked a lot about investments, stocks, politics, we argued, disagreed, we had opinions  - most of our conversations were on WhatsApp chat, he was very tech guy, into gadgets.. dad I miss you. Everything's gonna be alright - this was his favorite phrase. His last message on WhatsApp was on May 8:

Top 30 Dividend Paying Stocks in Germany (DAX Index)

2 June, 2020 | Investments | 774 seen

Investing in Germany is quite easy, you could do so by buying German stocks. There are many German stocks to invest in, but in this article, I will talk about Germany's blue-chip stocks, stocks from the DAX index

The DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex (German stock index)) is a blue-chip stock market index consisting of the 30 major German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Prices are taken from the Xetra trading venue. According to Deutsche Börse, the operator of Xetra, DAX measures the performance of the Prime Standard’s 30 largest German companies in terms of order book volume and market capitalization.

Here I have listed all 30 stocks from the DAX index, sorting by the highest dividend yield.

When looking at German stocks, I'm more interested in selling options on them, as to collect dividends, when talking about the DAX index - all stocks from the index are optionable, which is awesome. 

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Use this table to find out…

How To Swap / Transfer IP address with Linode VPS

29 May, 2020 | Servers | 74 seen

Recently I was rebuilding a compromised VPS on the Linode - this was a small web server serving some 3 established websites. It took me a few hours from A-Z  - launch a new Linode, install a new webserver on it, then transfer data from one host to another.

Once all migration works were done, there was an option to change DNS entry to point to the new server. Nothing complicated. But there is a neat feature from Linode called - Swap IP (IP Transfer). That's a little perk from Linode and quite good for SEO

You can get a cheap VPS starting just $5/mo from Linode. That's what I did - bought a new Linode just for $10

If you have two Linodes in the same data center, you can use the IP transfer feature to switch their IP addresses. This could be useful in several situations. For example, if you’ve built a new server to replace an old one, you could swap IP addresses instead of updating the DNS records.

IP Transfer with Linode

Here are the instructions how to transfer IP on Linode (found here: How do I move an IP Address around between different Linodes?)

How To Block IP Address in Drupal 8

23 May, 2020 | Drupal Development | 118 seen

Unlike in Drupal 7 version where IP banning is enabled by default, with Drupal 8 version, there is one more step added - IP banning must be enabled from the extend section.

Here is how. (source)

Now head to the Configuration -> People -> IP address bans and manually enter IP addresses that are abusing your Drupal 8 website

Ip address bans in Drupal 8

Under The Georgian Sun / King Davids Tower (s)

22 May, 2020 | | 17 seen

It was on the evening of April 27, 2020, I decided to switch glass (from the kit lens to telephoto) and make some photo for the month of April to put in the description in the monthly dividend income report.

The photo of the month turned out to be a sunset in Tbilisi with skyscraper in the foreground

King David Towers in Tbilisi

From the KDR website

Two landmark towers King David Residences and King David Business Center are harmonically united in an exclusive multifunctional complex King David.

King David creates a five-star lifestyle within exceptionally elegant residential and business towers with beautifully designed amenity spaces organized enticingly as a multistory urban resort and exclusive collection of specially-designed services.

King David Residences - the tall tower, which contains luxury Residences, has been designed to create a lifestyle of true sophistication. Floor-to-ceiling window walls capture the breathtaking panorama of Tbilisi, allow for abundant natural light and create a sense of tranquility in each and every home.

Each residence will provide inspiration, comfort, and…