Blog Archive: December 2013

Hi! My name is Reinis Fischer (38), a proud dad and devoted husband. CEO and Founder of Terramatris crypto hedge fund, drone enthusiast, world traveler, photographer, book author and passionate lover of Georgian cuisine (vegetarian).

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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How to automatically add watermarks to uploaded images in Drupal

Drupal is a powerful content management system (CMS) that allows users to create and manage websites with ease. One of the features that make Drupal popular among users is its flexibility and extensibility. Drupal's module system allows users to add functionalities to their websites, including automatic watermarking of uploaded images. If you are making photos and publicizing them to the internet - sooner or later you will find that you want to…

Drupal Development |

Facebook advertising: How to promote your page and reach a wider audience

Facebook advertising is a powerful tool for promoting your Facebook page and reaching a wider audience. With more than 2 billion monthly active users, Facebook provides businesses and organizations with an unparalleled opportunity to connect with potential customers and promote their brand. In this article, we'll explore the basics of Facebook advertising and provide tips for how to use it to promote your page and reach a wider audience. Define…

Blogging |

Responsive website - should I convert my site?

<p>Should I concern about mobile browsers? Should I optimize my site for responsive browsing? Yes and no!</p><p>At first - yes, you should invest some time and money to build a mobile devices friendly site. If your site visitors uses Facebook and or twitter, and you promote your content in those sites - answer is - you definitely should have a responsive site:</p><p><strong>Take a look of device use in 2012…

Web development |

Tbilisi First Snow

First snow appeared today on Tbilisi streets. Made some random photography of it. Update: I have created much better quality Tbilisi winter photos. Read more: Tbilisi - Fairyland in Winter Snow in Tbilisi Its snowing on Tamar Mephe street Police patrol in Tbilisi streets Tbilisi Railway Station

Living in Georgia |

How to configure postmarkapp to work with Drupal webform

If you are running your site under Apache then most probably your server will be auto configured with mail send module. But if you are running, lets say Ngnix without mail send function enabled, then you might consider some options to send e-mails from your site. And one of this options is to use Postmarkapp.com service. Today I'll show how to configure your Drupal powered site to deliver e-mails using postmarkapp and few handy modules. At…

Drupal Development |

Most visited Georgian websites (2013)

After living in Georgia for almost 2 and a half years I still haven't found any reliable website traffic analyzer, except Alexa and local top.ge statistics. Today I'll try to put both of them in one pot, and make some analysis. According to Alexa: Rank Name Alexa rank 1 forum.ge 9 2 ambebi.ge 12 3 myvideo.ge 14 4 myauto.ge 18 5 adjarabet.com 20 6 myhit.ge 23 7 intermedia.ge 24 8…

Living in Georgia |

The Mentalist

The Mentalist is an American drama television series that ran from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS. The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also its executive producer. The show follows former "psychic" Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), who is a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to "…

Movies, TV shows & Documentaries |

Google Pagerank toolbar updated?

<p>I have red in many places, that Google is not updating Pagerank this year anymore, and probably it will lose it's effect at all. But yesterday I noticed that my blog went from N/A to 0. And noticed that some other websites went up, and some went down.&nbsp;</p><p>Don't know what actually it means - should I be happy for my 0, or not to pay attention to that at all?</p>

Search Engine Optimization |

Tensions between Germany and Russia?

<p>Not so far away Germany and Russia, seemed like close bodies, signing contracts, making smaller EU nations to feel betrayed. Nord Stream project some even called a new Molotov - Ribbentrop pact, dividing Europe again.</p><p>Lately Germany, had took closer look at European Eastern Partnership, by trying to get Ukraine in. Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel personally is taking actions to make this happen.</p><p…

Geopolitics |

Floating social share buttons

Previously I already wrote how to add Facebook like button to your site, using a simple module. Today I'll how how to add floating social share buttons using custom code: Here is an example page: This will work for Facebook, Twitter and Google + buttons: Add this code to your theme files: <div id="pageshare"> <div class="sbutton" id="fb"> <a name="fb_share"type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share…

Web development |

Image hover effects - how to change background on mouse over

Today I faced again some interesting thing to create - on hover image to change the background and display text over it Here is how it looks: On the left side, you can see the default image, while on the right side with mouse over. To achieve such behavior in Drupal is pretty simple, a little bit CSS and you are done. Here is my view with div tags and Drupal fields: <div class="image-hover"> [field_images] <span class="image-…

Drupal Development |

Drupal pathauto + transliteration

Are you writing in different language than English, languages like Russian, Greek, Georgian, Hebrew or maybe Latvian? You find it's not attractive URL generated? In this article you will learn how to fix this using Drupal CMS and a neat module - Transliteration. Take a look at these screenshots: Here is Latvian URL in Chrome: Chrome handles special characters nicely. The same URL in Mozilla Firefox: First problems detected - special…

Drupal Development |

Building a Drupal site from scratch - Complete series

<p>Some time has passed away, since I started my tutorial how to build a Drupal site from scratch. I'm making this post to list all series</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-1-planin… a Drupal site from scratch - part 1 - planing</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-2-applyi… a…

Drupal Development |

Blog statistics November 2013

<p>Second month, since I started this blog has passed away. As started on November, I'm sharing results of my blog statistics in month of November.</p><p><strong>Top 10 posts according to Google Analytics:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/estonia-catch-scandinavia-next-10-15-years… to catch up Scandinavia in next 10-15 years</a>&nbsp;</li><li…

Blog statistics |