Blog Archive: April 2014

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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Add Menu Classes In Drupal 7

In this Drupal tutorial I'll show how to add menu classes to your Drupal 7 website using template.php file. Original of this tutorial has been found here. Add this function to your template.php file: <?php /** * theme_menu_link() */ function THEMENAME_menu_link(array $variables) { //add class for li $variables['element']['#attributes']['class'][] = 'menu-' . $variables['element']['#original_link']['mlid']; //add class for a $…

Drupal Development |

Redirect non www to www - Apache .htaccess

It has been years since I last time used .htaccess file available in Apache. I'm using Ngnix servers for 99.9 of mine work. But today I had an opportunity to work on Apache environment, which uses .htaccess file. So in order to rewrite non www to www in Apache I added following rulles to .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]   For Ngnix please read this…

Servers |

Da Vinci's Demons Season 2

<p>Da Vinci's Demons season 2 aired on March 22, 2014.&nbsp;</p><p>I really enjoyed first season and was inpatient to see Season 2.&nbsp;</p><p>Maybe of very interesting ending at finale episode in season 1.</p><p>In this season you will meet new characters like Amerigo &nbsp;Vespucci, which in Da Vinci's Demons is portrayed as an alcoholic and con.</p><p>Good,…

Movies, TV shows & Documentaries |

Azerbaijan looking to held Olympics 2024

<p>Looks like country of Azerbaijan is getting eager to held Olympics 2024. About that is writting newsgeorgia.ru referencing to Turkish "Anadolu"</p><p>According to Azerbaijan officials the list of candidate names will be available on 2017, and Azerbaijan is eager to see it's name on that list.</p><p>It might sound like a surprise, but for me Azerbaijan, a oil rich country in not anymore a surprise.…

Caucasus overview |

Time lapse - Day 2

<p>Yesterday I started a new Time lapse series -<a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/time-lapse-green-wall-day-1"&gt; How wall is turning from brick wall into green wall</a>.</p><p>Today I'm adding second photo, and already It's visible that in parts were sun shines more, it's turning green:</p><p><strong>Day 2 photo:</strong></p><p><strong><img…

Random thoughts |

Add Viewport in the <head> in Drupal 7

In this Drupal Tutorial I will show how to add a new HTML in Drupal 7 head section. I'm using responsive design to enable my blog work pretty ok on mobile devices, but yesterday looking through Google PageSpeed Insights suggestions I found that there is no viewport defined, so it might not render CSS as I might want, but instead to scale webpage to device. Your page does not have a viewport specified. This causes mobile devices to render your…

Drupal Development |

A Time Lapse of green wall - Day 1

There is a one really nice looking wall located in Tbilisi, I would like to show it to you, that building is left from the brick wall building opposite to me, and I'm seeing it every day, for the last one year.  The wall is grown with some greens, and in Summer it looks cool green, in Autumn it turns red, in Winter it's naked, and now I'm looking to make a time-lapse of this wall turning from naked into the green. Here is a Day 1 photo: I'm…

Living in Georgia |

Georgia - Day of National Unity

25 years ago, on April 9th, 1989 in Tbilisi, then Georgian SSR tragic events took place, what later were named as Tbilisi tragedy, Tbilisi Massacre or April 9th Tragedy.  Nowadays April 9th is marked as public holiday and called a the Day of National Unity. Basicly Soviet Government turned against it's citizens and sent tanks out in streets to dispress opposition. Tbilisi events later turned to Vilnius events and other. Prelude of Tbilisi…

Living in Georgia |

Performing Joomla 1.5 convert to Drupal 7

Over past couple of years, I have many times seen a bad Joomla site, which either is hacked or is not working as it should, and I have converted those sites to Drupal. The most strange things is, there is always some Joomla developer, who has created that site, but when problems occur, that Joomla developer is gone.. Strange right? How can one call himself a Joomla developer, when first problems occur, he is gone? So I got another Joomla site…

Drupal Development |

Father's David church, Mtatsminda pantheon and other

What to do in weekends when in Tbilisi? Grab your camera, and make some scenic views. This time - photos from Tbilisi, taken in April 5th, 2014, visiting Mama Daviti church, Mtatsminda pantheon and other.

Tourism objects |

6 month of blogging each day has passed

I started this blog on October 4th, 2013, and I started my blogging experience with a promise to blog 365 days in a row (including Christmas, New Years day and other) I'm half way there. So I decided to give some insights how I'm performing for now. My blog traffic stats has raised from very modest to decent modest, in January I even experienced my first traffic spike, when someone posted link to my blog, on highly popular site. I'm…

Blogging |

Change of Adsense ads for better layout - Experiment 1

<p>I have been serving ads on my resources for a while. Today I was looking through my CTR measures, and discovered that ads on my blog performs very poorly. And I decided to change that.</p><p>For now I had CTR rate about 0.60% on my blog, by serving two ad units - one sidebar and one embed into text.&nbsp;</p><p>Sidebars performs very poorly, and seem embedded ads into text doesn't performs as desired. So…

Google Adsense Tips |

My online income report - March 2014

<p>My online income in March dropped by half, and totalled to really modest $5.51.</p><p>In average I earned about $0.177 a day, what is significant drop compared to previous month, when in daily average I earned $0.34</p><ul><li>Highest earnings per day:&nbsp;<strong>$1.06</strong></li><li>Days making more than $1:&nbsp;<strong>1</strong></li><li>Days…

Online Income Reports |

Blog statistics March 2014

<p>March was pretty good month in terms of visitors from search engines. My blog managed to attract more than 500 visitors this month.</p><p>500 is pretty modest result, but still it's growing number, compared to little more than 300 in previous month.</p><p><img src="http://www.reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/blog-statistics-march…; width="1008" height="539"></p><p…

Blog statistics |

Living in Georgia already 3 years

Today it has been already three years, since I have been living in Georgia. My first arrival to Tbilisi was at night from April 1st to April 2nd.  I knew little, not to say, nothing about Georgia, before then. I knew that Georgia once was part of the USSR, I have heard something about war in 2008. I feel much more educated about Georgia now! The reason I decided to come to Georgia, was an article on Forbes, covering Georgia, and saying that…

Living in Georgia |