Blog Archive: October 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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The Impact of EEU Membership on Armenia's Economy

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…

Investments |

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

<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>…

Travel guides |

Drupal Simple FB connect + User Form Theming

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…

Drupal Development |

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

<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>…

Drupal Development |

Blog One Year Anniversary

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…

Blogging |

Facebook Login Button For a Drupal website

<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…

Drupal Development |

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

<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…

Drupal Development |

17 Best ACER Laptops You Can Buy Online on Amazon

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…

Online Shopping |

Menu Tokens Module for Drupal Site

<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 -…

Drupal Development |

How To Display Drupal nodes You Created 1 Year Ago?

<p>It turns out - yesterday on October 3d - my blog had a birthday - it was exatly one year since my first blog post appeared on reinisfischer.com</p><p>On that day I created 2 posts:</p><ol><li><a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/baltics-vs-caucasus-gdp-2012&quot; target="_blank">Baltic's vs Caucasus by GDP 2012</a></li><li><a href="http://www.…

Drupal Development |

My Online Income Report - September 2014

<p>This is already my 9th <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/online-income-reports">Online Income report</a>, now covering my earnings in month of September 2014.</p><p>For a start - I must admit - <span style="text-decoration: underline;">September did break a bank and outperformed results of previous 8 months counted total</span>.&nbsp;</p><h2>So how much did my…

Online Income Reports |

Drupal: Create Dynamical Menus with Menu Views

Today working on a customer's Drupal project, I found a kind of strange need - to display for authenticated users their flagged content in a drop-down menu - kinda Facebook, LinkedIn behavior, when you click on gear icon and magic happens - you see your latest messages, invitations, and e.t.c. So I must admit - at the start I didn't have an idea - how actually to flag content. But luckily for me, a few years ago - I was playing with Flags…

Drupal Development |

Blog Traffic Report - September 2014

<p>Welcome to my monthly blog traffic report. This month it's kinda special it marks 12 months since I started to blog. Though the <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/its-official-now-domain-name-reinisfischer… one year of blogging will be marked on October 10th</a>.</p><p>A year ago - I started my blogging adventure, and one of my goals was to achieve <em>around 6,000 unique visitors</em> in…

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