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 Power of Nginx: A Comprehensive Guide to Nginx Web Server
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy server. It is a free and open-source software that was first released in 2004. Since then, it has gained a lot of popularity and has become one of the most widely used web servers in the world, powering many of the largest websites and web applications. In this article, we'll take a closer look at what Nginx is, how it works, and why it's so popular. What is Nginx…
The New India: A Fascinating Documentary on India's Rise and Struggle (2013)
Despite being released in 2013, The New India, a documentary from BBC, remains an intriguing look into India's evolution. The film explores how India is becoming a major world economy, potentially rising to third place in just one generation. However, it also highlights the ongoing challenges the country faces, including issues such as poverty, caste systems, and religious tensions between Muslims and Hindus. If you've never been to India, this…
The Vilnius Summit 2013 and Its Aftermath: How the Association Agreement Impacted Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova's European Integration
On November 28-29th, 2013, the Eastern Partnership summit took place in Vilnius, where Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova signed an Association agreement with the European Union (EU). This agreement aimed to strengthen political and economic ties with the EU, including free trade and visa-free travel. The signing of the agreement was seen as a significant step towards European integration for these countries. However, the signing of the agreement…
Improve User Experience with Image Hover Effects for Drupal Thumbnail Images
Drupal is a powerful and flexible content management system that enables you to create visually appealing and engaging websites. One way to enhance the visual impact of your Drupal site is to add image hover effects to your thumbnails. In this article, we'll explore how to use Drupal to create image hover effects for thumbnails. Step 1: Install and Configure the Image Hover Effects Module To create image hover effects for your Drupal…
10 Effective Strategies for Growing and Managing Your Facebook Page
Facebook has become one of the most widely used social media platforms in the world, with over 2 billion monthly active users. For businesses, brands, and individuals, it has become an essential tool for promoting products and services, building a community, and reaching a wider audience. However, with so many users and competition, it can be challenging to grow and manage a successful Facebook page. In this article, we will discuss 10…
Facebook Creative Agency in Tbilisi: The Experts You Need to Grow Your Business
In recent years, social media has become an integral part of business marketing strategies, and Facebook is one of the most widely used platforms for advertising. With over 2.7 billion active users, Facebook presents a vast opportunity for businesses to reach their target audience, increase brand awareness, and drive conversions. However, creating effective Facebook campaigns requires expertise and creativity. This is where Facebook creative…
How to Hire Top Translators with the Help of LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social media platform that has become an essential tool for recruiters and hiring managers in various industries. For those in need of hiring translators, LinkedIn is a particularly valuable resource that can help connect them with a pool of qualified candidates. For the past few weeks, I've been helping find and recruit top talents for one of the leading translation companies in Georgia, and in this article, I want to share my…
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…