Blog Archive: May 2017
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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Rainy day in Tbilisi - Time Lapse Video
That time of the year has come and as usual, in April I return to photograph that lovely brick wall opposite to our apartment, turning green. This year I decided to excel in time-lapse photography and video. A few months ago I bought an intervalometer (around Christmas time) and today was actually the first time I put it on real action. I did a few tests to see how intervalometer actually works, and once get the basic understanding put it to…
A tutorial for creating HDR images in Photoshop
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, and it is a technique in which many images – usually around 3 or 5 – are merged together, so that details from all the different images show up in the final HDR image. It is simply using the dynamic range over many exposures in one single image. [block:block=34] Photoshop is a great and very effective tool for merging the series of photos of the same scene you have taken, to give an HDR image with lots of…
Facebook Like & Share Buttons on Drupal 8 using Views
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup custom Facebook like & share buttons for Drupal 8 website using views display. No doubt, there are many great modules set and forget configuration. Though if you are looking to display functional social share buttons on views based pages, you will need to come out with custom solution. There are many pages and even blocks in Drupal social share buttons to be featured, like custom blocks,…
How To Add Open Graph Protocol For Drupal 8 Website
In today's Drupal tutorial series I will write down my notes, how to add open graph protocol for Drupal 8 website. The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook. While many different technologies and schemas exist and could be combined together, there isn't a single technology…
How to send OneSignal RSS Push Notifications Using Zapier
I've been using OneSignal to collect web push subscribers for my blog, since November 2016, by now I can brag with more than 12,000 web push subscribers for this blog. As I keep writing on many topics, I don't find it a good idea of sending RSS notification for each new article. How To Setup Web Push Notifications For Drupal 8 (Or Any Other Site) Using OneSignal Actually this is the thing I'm missing on OneSignal, a better segmentation. By now…
How To Setup Web Push Notifications For Drupal 8 (Or Any Other Site) Using OneSignal
Web push notifications are hot in 2017, we will see them more in future for sure. I've been using web push notifications for my personal blog and from what I've seen - it's very powerful marketing tool, allowing you to reach your audience very fast - for blogs and websites that means more returning visitors, for commerce sites that definitely means more sales. In the past I've tried a few web push notifications providers, but at the end I've…
Mintos.com Review after 3 month investing in Peer to Peer loans
April 21st marked 3 month anniversary since I've been actively investing on Mintos.com marketplace. In today's article I will share some of my key findings on how much some can earn here with little money. Update: See my latest Mintos review: Mintos.com Review 2020 (36 Month of Investing in Peer to Peer Lending) In short - my earnings here are very humble, with last April setting personal interest payment record at EUR 25.83. Depending on…
Postfix Send Only SMPT Mail for Drupal 8 on Ubuntu 16.04, Nginx
If you have recently installed a fresh Drupal 8 site on Ubuntu 16.04 with Nginx running on it and you are getting Unable to send e-mail. Contact the site administrator if the problem persists notice after submitting contact form, you are missing an important element for your site to functions properly. You could be missing important information about available updates, as Drupal uses cron to sends notification e-mails once updates are available…
10 Day Business / Leisure Trip to the United States (New York & Philadelphia)
A short 10 day trip to the United States, visiting 3 states (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) Long story short - I had to fly to the United States for one reason - opening a bank account (see: How To Open A Bank Account in the U.S., As A Non-resident Non - citizen, Wells Fargo Bank), for the flight, we decided to go with Ukrainian airlines from Tbilisi via Kyiv to New York City (see: About Tbilisi - Kyiv - New York Flight by Ukrainian…
How To Override Drupal 8 Frontpage Title
Recently I've started a new Drupal 8 website for a personal project tour listings in Georgia. As I've been a core Drupal 7 user since 2011, Drupal 8 involves a new learning curve even for me. In this short article I will provide a quick setup how to override Drupal's 8 frontpage title tag using metatag module In general frontpage of your website should include main keywords for SEO, by default Drupal 8 shows Home | [site:name], which is not…
Postcards from New York City
That time have come, and in today's Piece of Life photo series, we are very exited to list postcards from New York city, if you have been following for a while our photo project, you have already noticed that we have featured postcards from many cities around the world. New York city has a lot to offer, it's dynamic, calm, strange but let's agree - very interesting for photography and inspiration. Not to speak more, here are some interesting…