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Drupal & Servers

How To Reference Nodes in Drupal 8 + Views Relationships Display

Lately I feel very enthusiastic working with latest Drupal 8 release, though Drupal 8 have been around for a while already, there are still few drawbacks which keeps me avoiding developing full scale on Drupal 8.

I will write down my notes of pros and cons about switching from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 in some of the future posts, in today's Drupal tutorial series I will provide information how to use reference fields and build something…

Investing

Nasdaq Baltics Review After One Month Investment in Dividend Paying Stocks

I started this year (2017) with a goal to save one million dollars in savings accounts by the time I will turn 60 (that's in 2045). For some such goal might sounds unrealistic, for others nothing so special.Anyway it's not about who is right and who is not. It's all about finance discipline and hopefully sunny days in retirement age. It was decided that I will invest $8,561 in 2017, in different investment opportunities- peer to peer…

Investing

Investment Goal #1 - $100/mo from Dividend Payments

It has been a while I did set my general goal of saving million dollars before I will turn 60 (there is still plenty of time). The good news I've been on the right track for the past 5 months and I've been investing in peer to peer lending, dividend paying stocks and mutual funds.

I like the idea of getting monthly interest or dividend payments, and I started with investments in Latvian mintos peer to peer lending. Despite pretty high interest…

Georgia

Magic Fish - Tbilisi Restaurant

Magic Fish is another interesting restaurant I've discovered in Tbilisi (see complete list with Tbilisi restaurant reviews). The fun fact is following, I had seen this place countless times by passing it by on lively Aghmeneshabeli avenue, but never thought, there is a restaurant located inside.As flashy banner, and kind of strange name lead me to think there is some disco bar or something. Turns out I was wrong, and Magic Fish actually is a…

Georgia

Hard Rock Cafe Tbilisi

I've found one of my favorite Tbilisi restaurants - meet Hard Rock cafe Tbilisi, located on lively Vasil Petrashvili street 1, near Tbilisi Philharmonic building.Hard Rock Cafe Tbilisi, in fact is first Hard Rock cafe I've ever visited, but now I know, there is a good reason to visit them around the World.Hard Rock Cafe Tbilsi​Located steps away from Casino Sakartvelo in the historical Vera District of Tbilisi (the…

Drupal & Servers

Drupal 8 Custom Taxonomy Term Pages with Views

By default, out of the box, Drupal taxonomy term pages are styled kind of ugly, but with the help of just a few simple tweaks, we could style them as we wish, just by using CSS. In today's Drupal tutorial series, I will provide a simple how-to on how to create custom Drupal 8 taxonomy term pages using views.

Luckily, you won't need to install any additional modules, as in Drupal 8, views are already built in the core, and if you are already…

Drupal & Servers

EU Cookie Compliance For Drupal 8 Website

I'm not an expert in EU laws, but as far as I remember since 2012 there have been passed a law, so called EU Cookie Compliance law, asking website located in the territory of European Union to provide cookie disclaimer to website visitors if any cookie installed on website. 

To play safe, I have enabled cookie information bar on my blog (you can see it in the bottom of each page)

As, recently I started Drupal 8 development on .…

Drupal & Servers

How to create related content block using taxonomy term in Drupal 8

There is no secret that related content can help to improve over all page views for website. More page views means more engaged website visitors, resulting in more sales and higher profit.

In today's Drupal tutorial I will write how to make related content block using taxonomy term field in Drupal 8. For Drupal 7 tutorial see: Related nodes based on taxonomy terms

In short, if you are already familiar how to create related content…

Digital Photography School

Rainy day in Tbilisi - Time Lapse Video

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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…

Digital Photography School

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.

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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…

Drupal & Servers

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…

Drupal & Servers

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…

Drupal & Servers

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.…

Drupal & Servers

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…

Investing

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 …

Drupal & Servers

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…

United States

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…

Drupal & Servers

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:…

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…

Georgia

Famous Tbilisi Restaurant Review

Famous restaurant in Tbilisi is another so called high end restaurant located in the quiet are of old town on Abo Tbileli street (Puri Square)Famous restaurant is one of the best places to enjoy European & Georgian cuisine in Tbilisi in a pleasant music and a special atmosphere of comfort and playful romance.During our latest visit here (February 2017) we learnt that a chef we already knew from master class in Asian cuisine…

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