Motive (TV-series)

11 November, 2013 | Worth to Watch | 4 seen

<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 ready to continue to watch all season.</p><p>It's interesting that on start of each series is showed who is the killer, and who is the victim, and then latter on - detectives finds a motive.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At the start of series I didn't quite get is it US or Canada based series - but now I know, it is made in Canada, and series plot line is set on streets of Vancouver.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>IMDB:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2443340/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt24433…;

Customizing Subpage page.tpl.php Design in Drupal: Tips and Tricks

11 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 4 seen

Theming subpages in Drupal is an important aspect of website design that can help you create a professional-looking website that engages your visitors. One way to achieve this is by theming subpages like page.tpl.php in Drupal. 

In this article, we'll take a closer look at what page.tpl.php is, and how you can use it to create custom subpage themes in Drupal. 

Page.tpl.php is a template file in Drupal that controls the overall layout and styling of your website pages. By default, it applies to all pages on your website, but you can also create custom page.tpl.php files for specific subpages. This allows you to create a unique look and feel for different sections of your website.

To theme subpages like page.tpl in Drupal, you'll need to create a new template file and name it according to Drupal's naming convention.

For example, if you want to create a custom template for a subpage that displays blog posts, you would create a new file called page--blog.tpl.php. This file would contain the HTML, CSS, and PHP code needed to create the desired layout and styling for your blog subpage.

Once you've created your custom…

Minimum wage in Baltic states

10 November, 2013 | Macroeconomics | 8 seen

Minimum wages in the Baltic states are the lowest ones in the European Union. In 2013 minimum wage in Baltic states was $427 in Estonia, $379 in Latvia and $385 in Lithuania.

Update: Minimum Wage Set to Rise in the Baltic States in 2018

Difference between "richest" Estonia and "poorest" Latvia in 2013, in terms of minimum wage, was = $48

Estonia has announced to increase its minimum wage by 35 EUR both in 2014 and 2015. In 2014 minimum wage in Estonia will be $474.

Latvia plans to increase its minimum wage to 320 EUR or $427 in 2014

I haven't found any evidence that Lithuania plans to increase its minimum wage in 2014.

In 2014, Lithuania will replace Latvia as "poorest" in terms of minimum wage, making difference with Estonia $89.

By forecasts - Estonia will reach minimum wage $500 mark already in 2015, so my predictions are that both in Latvia and Lithuania minimum wage will be increased as well.

Just by comparison, in relatively close Poland, the minimum wage in 2013 was $491 and is expected to reach $535 by 2014.

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 10 - Views exposed filters

10 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 13 seen

<p>Remember at start of this tutorial <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-1-planing">we created a tour types taxonomy</a>, by allowing asign a category for each node from content type tour? Today we gonna add these values to our tours page, by allowing for users to filer tours by their type:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Open your view tour, and under filter settings add filter Tour type:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/filtertours.JPG&quot; alt="" width="752" height="563"></p><p>Make sure you check next to Expose this filter. Save your view, now by accessing your view page, you should see something similiar to this:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/filtertourview.JPG&quot; alt="" width="826" height="514"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Which is nice, and does his job as needed (filters on values entered)</p><p>Depending on your mood and needs, you can leave this, or you can expose this filter…

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 9 - adding menu

9 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 9 seen

<p>To add a menu to your Drupal site, you should enable menu module from your modules page:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/enablemenu.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1162" height="169"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When enabled, head to&nbsp;admin/structure/menu/manage/main-menu and a few menu links:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/listmenu.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1143" height="254"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Depending on your theme structure, you have two options, either programmatically call menu in your theme, or put it on block. Since in this tutorial we are using Bootstrap theme, which has already called function to show menu, when enabled, after adding menu links, they will be visible on Bootstrap theme.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/menutheme.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1012" height="174"></p>

Population changes in former Soviet Union

8 November, 2013 | Macroeconomics | 161 seen

15 former Soviet Union republics, then and now.

In 1990 in the Soviet Union lived 287.728 million people. In 2012 in the former republics lived 290.587 million people, which is 0.98% increase. A pretty small increase for 22 years.

The thing is, not all former Soviet republics have developed equally in next 22 years, since the collapse of Soviet Union.

Countries with population decrease:

Countries with population increase:

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 8 - Theming subtheme CSS

8 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 7 seen

<p>In part 2 of series how to build a Drupal site from scratch, I'm talking about how to create a subtheme from Bootstrap theme.</p><p>Today I would like to speak how to actually theme it, because just enabled it comes empty,with all files served from Bootstrap mater theme.</p><p>By default Bootstrap theme is set to be 1200px and wider, this is first thing I would like to change for our customers tourism website we are using in thee Drupal series. I don't mind for ite being 1200px and more wider, just I like to them be 940-980px, to work well on most display's.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In your mytheme/css folder look for style.css file. It's empty, and now let's start overriding it:</p><p>add:</p><blockquote><pre>.container, .navbar-static-top .container, .navbar-fixed-top .container, .navbar-fixed-bottom .container {<br>width: 940px;<br>}</pre></blockquote><pre>&nbsp;</pre><pre>This will make themes default witdth to 940px.</pre><pre>&nbsp;</pre><pre>Actually this is it. Of course you must rewrite…

Drupal views archive page

8 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 14 seen

<p>Today I decided to give some face-lift to my blog page. I wanted to add an archive function to filter blog posts by month. If you have views enabled, you can use default view archive, which comes with views.</p><p>Since I already had created a page blog, I didn't see any use to use 2 identical views - archive and blog. So I didn't enabled archive view, instead I fine tuned my existing blog page view:</p><p>Add Contextual filter:&nbsp;<strong>Content: Created year + month</strong>, to your blog page.</p><p><img src="http://www.reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/contextual-filter.JPG&…; alt="" width="1117" height="528"></p><p>Set&nbsp;<strong>Display all results for the specified field</strong>&nbsp;WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS NOT IN THE URL</p><p>Override title <strong>Blog %1</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These settings will allow to pass argument in URL, by not making any harm to your existing blog page.&nbsp;</p><p>Now lets add new block from views. And head to…

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 7 - Theming views

7 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 4 seen

<p>In <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-5-custom-fro… 4</a> in tutorial series how to build a Drupal site from scratch, I am showing how to build views. Now let's upgrade them, by adding additional fields and even CSS style.</p><p>Yes, we will add CSS style directly into our views.</p><p>Lets go back to our view tours (if you are new to this series, please read <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-4-creating-v… to create a Drupal views</a>)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In part 4 we have already changed Format for Featured blocks to fields, lets apply the same for page display:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/changestyle.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1076" height="434"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now lets add some fields to our view:</p><p>By default we already have Title field</p><ul><li>Add Photo field</li><li>Add Body Field</li></ul><div><img src="http://reinisfischer…

Week #5 of blogging 365 days in a row

7 November, 2013 | Blogging | 1 seen

<p>Fifth week of <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/can-you-blog-365-days-row">blogging 365 days in row</a> has already passed away. I need to confess - without future posting feature, nothing wouldn't work out. There are days, I'm not even looking into my blog, don't speaking of writing a content.</p><p>At the end of October I created a dozen of posts, to publish till middle of November. That was smart, right? When you have an inspiration, write, write, write, but don't publish all together, keep it for rainy days.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So yes, 5th week was on of those rainy day weeks, and Haven't contributed much content - BUT - <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/30-days-twittering-row">I have started to use Twitter</a>, and have gained already 22 followers (up from 5) when I started.</p><p><img src="http://www.reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/twitter.JPG&quot; alt="" width="539" height="319"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>During month of November, I'm not using (not looking) any…

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 6 - Working with blocks

6 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 3 seen

<p>In <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-4-creating-v… 4</a> of this Drupal tutorial series we created a view with block - Features tours. Now is the right time, to do something with this block. And we gonna put this block on our <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-5-custom-fro… access blocks section in your Drupal site, head to structure/block:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/featuredtourblock.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1081" height="258"></p><p>Drag this block to Content block area:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/dragblocks.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1052" height="260"></p><p>Be sure to click the save button.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To make this block availiable only on frontpage, click configure and enter settings as bellow:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/jutfront.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1037" height…

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 5 - Custom fronpage

5 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 9 seen

<p>By default Drupal comes with frontpage set to display latest 10 nodes from your site:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/frontpagedrupal.png&quot; alt="" width="632" height="573"></p><p>Which might be ok, if you are runing some blog, but if you are looking the ways how to change default frontpage, you must take a look under system/site-information. In the section default front page it's set to /node (container of your latest posts)</p><p>I'll show one technique I'm using to setup custom, views powered frontpage:</p><p>In previous parts of this tutorial I have already showed <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-4-creating-v… to install views and how to create a view</a>&nbsp;</p><p>This time we gonna enable view frontpage from our views page:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/enablefrontpage.JPG&quot; alt="" width="1174" height="327"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Go to /admin/…

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 4 - Creating views

4 November, 2013 | Drupal Development | 9 seen

<p>Let's move on with our tourism companies website tutorial.</p><p>In part 1 we created a custom content type - Tours, now it's time to make a few views which will contain data from node related to content type - tours.</p><p>Before creating views - we must download a few modules, to get them work:</p><ul><li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/views">Download Views</a></li><li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/ctools">Download Ctools</a></li><li>Extract both to sites/all/modules</li><li>Enable Views, Views UI modules</li></ul><div>A bried explanation from creators of Drupal views:</div><div><ul><li>You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it differently.</li><li>You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.</li><li>You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain type.</li><li>You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't…

10 largest countries by military expenditures 2012

4 November, 2013 | Macroeconomics | 29 seen

In a world shaped by geopolitical dynamics, military spending plays a pivotal role in defining a nation's strategic capabilities. Let's delve into the realm of defense budgets and unveil the top 10 countries that invest significantly in their military apparatus.

1. The World's Top 10 Richest Countries by Military Expenditures:

• United States: $682.478 billion
• China: $166.107 billion
• Russia: $90.749 billion
• United Kingdom: $61.007 billion
• Japan: $59.267 billion
• France: $58.943 billion
• Saudi Arabia: $56.724 billion
• India: $45.785 billion
• Germany: $43.478 billion
• Italy: $34.004 billion

As the chart above illustrates, the United States leads in military spending, a testament to its robust defense budget.

2. GDP Nominal per Capita for Military Expenditures:

• United States: $2.174 thousand
• Saudi Arabia: $2.005 thousand
• United Kingdom: $0.964 thousand
• France: $0.89 thousand
• Russia: $0.632 thousand
• Italy: $0.558 thousand
• Germany: $0.53 thousand
• Japan: $0.464 thousand
• China: $…

Week #4 of blogging 365 days in a row

3 November, 2013 | Blogging | 1 seen

<p>3d week of blogging resulted in 15 blog posts. Nothing much to tell more.</p><p>At the end of 3d week I realized there is need to implement some Twitter strategies, do drive traffic to my blog. Decided to use Twitter strategy for whole month of November.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>