Blog Archive: November 2013
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 Wages in the Former Soviet Union: A Look at 2013
The former Soviet Union was a vast region that encompassed a number of countries with distinct cultures, economies, and political systems. In 2013, the region was still recovering from the economic and political upheavals of the previous decades, and minimum wages varied widely across the countries that made up the former Soviet Union. Previously I have already measured and compared minimum wages in Baltic states, Caucasus and Central Asia. All…
Minimum Wages in Central Asia: A Look at the Region's Low Wage Rates
Central Asia is a region that consists of five countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The region has a diverse economy, with industries ranging from agriculture to oil and gas production. However, the issue of minimum wage is one that affects workers across all sectors. Minimum wages in Central Asia vary from country to country. In Kazakhstan, the current minimum wage is 42,500 tenge per month, which is…
Display node count per taxonomy
<p>Working on project, I needed to display how many nodes are in particular taxonomy.</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/taxonomy-count.png" alt="" width="727" height="212"></p><p> </p><p>To achieve such behavior - I created a term based view, turned on aggregation, under Relationships added Taxonomy term Content using,…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 13 - working with node display
<p>By default, when adding new fields to content type, and then entering values in them, Drupal will display all of them on node:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/allfieldsdisplayed.png" alt="" width="880" height="309"></p><p>But what if we don't want some or all of these fields to be displayed on our node?</p><p>Simple,…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 12 - Working with image styles
By default Drupal offers 3 image styles enabled: thumbnail, medium, large: Image styles can be applied to images we are using in views, and not always 3 default options are enough. In the image above, you can see, we have passed some default image styles in our Featured tours view. What are the options to make the images fit the box? Well, we could use Some CSS techniques, but we can use image styles options from Drupal, right? So I'm…
Drupal 7 override page.tpl.php for specific content type
<p>Working on project I needed a function to override default page.tpl.php for specific content type. I did use theme_hook function some 2 years ago, and I knew it's achievable in Drupal.</p><p>Doing quick Google search found a Drupal tutorial <a href="https://drupal.org/node/249726">https://drupal.org/node/249726</a> - don't know is it problem with my project, but that didn…
Heaven can wait (1943)
<blockquote><p>Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry. Surprised there is any question on his suitability, he recounts his lively life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, but mainly concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult twenty-five years of marriage to Martha.</p></blockquote><p>A romantic comedy from 40ties…
Motive (TV-series)
<p>Started to watch a new crime series - Motive.</p><p>Plot line:</p><blockquote><p>A feisty Vancouver homicide detective tracks down the most cunning of killers by trying to figure out the motive to the crime.</p></blockquote><p>Time by time I like to watch TV series, and so in Sunday evening I found a new series to watch - Motive.</p><p>After watching first 3 series, I'm…
Customizing Subpage page.tpl.php Design in Drupal: Tips and Tricks
Theming subpages in Drupal is an important aspect of website design that can help you create a professional-looking website that engages your visitors. One way to achieve this is by theming subpages like page.tpl.php in Drupal. In this article, we'll take a closer look at what page.tpl.php is, and how you can use it to create custom subpage themes in Drupal. Page.tpl.php is a template file in Drupal that controls the overall layout and…
Minimum wages in South Caucasus
<p>Yesterday I wrote about <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/minimum-wage-baltic-states">minimum wages in Baltic states</a>. Today I would like to write about minimum wages in South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) countries. Both of these regions was once a part of Soviet Union, and for me it's interesting to compare how each of the regions have developed since collapse of Soviet Union.</p><p>…
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…