How Amazon Affiliates get paid in Republic of Georgia - Part 1
How participants of Amazon Associates program are getting paid in the Republic of Georgia by a bank check is a blog series I originally made at the end of 2014 / start of 2015 while struggling to redeem my first bank check issued by Amazon,
Although it's still technically possible to withdraw bank checks in Georgia, at the end of 2016, I flew to the US and opened a bank account there, see: How To Open A Bank Account in the U.S., As A Non-resident Non - citizen, Wells Fargo Bank
For complete series of my adventures while living in Georgia with Georgian banks and checks from Amazon, please see:
How Amazon Affiliates get paid in the Republic of Georgia - Part 1
How Amazon…
Sitges - a Popular Resort Town in Spain
During our Spain trip, we visited many interesting towns and places, like town of Girona, Salvadors Dali museum at Figueras, charming stone building town Peratallada, Begur, Roses and Cadaques and other. Now was turn for a popular resort town of Sitges, located close to Barcelona.As usual I don't pay much attention for a new exploring object before visiting it - and it was fun latter to learn that Sitges is not only popular resort town in Spain, but it's a very popular destination for gay and lesbian travellers from all over the world. Well - quite an interesting fact about this town :)I didn't pay much attention is there much gay/lesbian travellers (Seen some of them - like men kissing in…
Hotel Globos Review in Sitges, Spain
One of the things I like about hotels is not to plan a stay at hotel before. No bookings, no planning. Just pass by, if you like it - go into it, and ask for a room and price. The best of this is bargain.So did happened this time, after we arrived from Peratallada, a nice medieval town to resort city of Sitges, close to Barcelona. Turns out with spontanous decissions I have not only stayed on hotel I liked, but I have visited one of the most gay resort cities in world. Price for a room at this hotel: EUR 55Here comes the pictures of Hotel Globos, hotel we find close to sea:Bedroom at Hotel GlobosBalcony at hotel GlobosBedroom at hotel GlobosBathroom at hotel GlobosSeaside view from…
Peratallada - a Charming Stone Building Town in Catalonia, Spain
When we left a charming hotel in Begur, we straight headed to a little and charming medieval town of Peratallada, which is located some 22 km east of Girona, and some 15 km west of Begur.
Here are 22 pictures I made at this lovely town:
Road to Peratallada
Peratallada
Medieval streets of Peratallada
Medieval streets of Peratallada
Medieval streets of Peratallada
Catalan flag on streets of Peratallada
Peratallada
Bicycle on streets of Peratallada
Property for sale on Peratallada
Peratallada streets
Peratallada Town square
Restaurant at Peratallada Town square
Restaurant at Peratallada Town square
Balconies at Peratallada Town square…
Hotel Es Cel de Begur Review in Begur, Spain
On our third Spain trip day we stayed overnight at one of the interesting hotels I have ever stayed - Es Cel de Begur Hotel at Bergur.We booked this hotel on Booking.com it offered a huge savings, instead of paying EUR 400 we paid for room with partial sea view and bed with baldachine EUR 81.Well I doubt the actual value for this room is EUR 400, it's more some booking.com neat marketing trick. But price EUR 81 for such a hotel room in such an amazing place with partial, but still sea view - is a value deal.Well we ordered few coffees con leche (Coffee with milk in Catalan) and a supper onsite's restaurant, so total bill was EUR 131. No regrets at all.N.B. Though this place offers free…
Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain
In our second day trip to Spain we visited Salvador Dali Museum located in town of Figueres. I can tell you just one - This has finally happened - had heard so much about this great place before and now I actually visited it.There are not much words I can use to describe this fabulous museum in Figueras, instead I can offer you 16 pictured from this place (Originally there were 43 pictures, but 2 years latter since originally created this article, I reviewed both article and pictures and made some post-processing for photography in Adobe Lightroom). Now, I feel a bit sorry about myself I can't travel back in time and capture much much better…
Hotel Tarongeta Review in Cadaques
We stayed at hotel Tarongeta in Cadaques in our second day trip to Catalonia, Spain.You can read my photo article - covering Cadaques here.Choice of Tarongneta was made spontaneous and all agreements regarding accommodation was made on site, not using any third party booking services (thus, I must admit I found this hotel on booking.com before we arrived at Cadaques)This hotel offers few benefits - free parking on site, located in centre of Cadaques. The price? EUR 55 per night (I guess could bargain it down to EUR 40 with ease).Nothing fancy - just great location and free parking.Bathroom at Hotel TarongetaBathroom at Hotel TarongetaBedroom at Hotel TarongetaBedroom at Hotel…
Exploring Catalonia: from Roses to Cadaques
On our second day on Catalonian trip, we left Girona and headed to Roses (Girona municipality) and after a short 5 minute stay at Roses we headed to Cadaques (Girona municipality).I decided to stick with motto: one picture can say more than 1000 words, and here you have - 30 pictures I took during our trip Roses, Girona - Cadaques, Girona.Beach at Roses, GironaRoses, GironaLiterraly after 5 minutes here at Roses beach we decided - there is no need to dig deeper in this beautiful Spanish/Catalonian seaside town, and we turned our car around to head to Cadaques. I guess it's all about spontaneity. Sorry Roses in Girona - I will come back some other day.On the road to CadaquesScenic…
Hotel Ultonia Review in Girona
During our first day on our Catalonia trip for a first night, we stayed at Girona - Hotel Ultonia.
For a start I must admit - I wanted to book another less expensive hotel, but that was out of city center - so hell, for a sake of a couple of bucks we decided to book something valuable in the city center.
But to keep up with the costs - I found it's more affordable if you are using hotelclub.com rather booking.com. Basically, it works like this - what on Booking costs in Euro's, the same on hotelclub costs in dollars. And if you are a currency geek - you will understand me - it's 25-30% cheaper.
Now - enough talking, show me the pictures:
Corridor at Hotel Ultonia Girona…
Catalonia: First impressions of Girona - Cathedral of Girona, Jewish Quarter
This probably will be a long photo article, with few comments on each of the photo.It was my first time visiting Spain, and stop of Girona came just right after we landed in Barcelona, rented a nice Renault Megane car from Fire Fly company. During this trip I only started to recognize what is Catalonia - not any more an abstract term for me - it's real place with real folks and attractions there. So here are few shots from Girona, Cathedral of Girona and Jewish Quarter (probably last two are main attractions of Girona)Scooters on streets of GironaGreen OverpassFunny Vehicle on streets of GironaBalcony with flowers at GironaView to Girona CathedralGirona street viewGirona Events desk (…
Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport is located some 32 km southeast of the city center, airport serves as the hub for AnadoluJet and Pegasus Airlines.The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the adoptive daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the first female fighter pilot in the world. Although Istanbul Airport, located 63 km (39 mi) west of the European side of Istanbul, is larger, Sabiha Gökçen is still one of the largest airports in the country.I have been traveling via Sabiha Gokcen Airport several times flying in and out routes like Tbilisi, Trabzon, Izmir, Barcelona, and more. Most of the time flying Pegasus Airlines.The airport was built because Atatürk International…
Drupal module: User Picture Field - A Brilliant Solution for Styling forms With Display Suite
Working with complex Drupal projects I'm always trying to escape many rewrites of existing Drupal built-in functionality.
This time I got a client's request to have a user edit form with two-level admin: One for username and password information - the second for custom user profile fields, like occupation, location, gender, etc.
At the start I said - well, let's use the Profile2 module, to handle this task, but soon I found there are bugs, and we all hate bugs, so I found a brilliant solution how to get rid of the Profile2 module, but to keep existing functionality.
Now arrived another problem - how to display the default Drupal user picture ($picture) using the Display suite module on…
Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport
Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport is the busiest international airport in Georgia, located 17 km (11 mi) southeast of capital Tbilisi. Tbilisi Airport is home to Georgian flag carrier Georgian Airways and MyWay Airlines. The airport is served by approximately 30 airlines, mainly from Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia serving roughly 30 destinations out of Tbilisi. Due to the increasing popularity of Georgia and the city of Tbilisi as a tourist destination, the number of travelers grew since 2010 from 1 million to almost 4 million until the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Tbilisi International Airport is operated by TAV Urban Georgia since October…
Planing a Trip to Spain: How to Get a Prepaid SIM Card in Spain
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 - 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!Do I really must be covered?Yes, I really must be covered even on my holiday trips. Why? I'm blogging every day - actually it's already second year for me doing such a lame thing as blogging each and every day.So I cannot to lay on luck - that I will get some free internet even in Spain. So I started to look for my options to get a pre-paid SIM card with internet on…
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 they are updated to the latest Facebook API versions. Speaking of what - ahhh - Facebook sets the rules, when to update and how to update their API - leaving developers to be forced to upgrade for newer versions of their API.
So a while ago…
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><p>My first approach for two user profiles was using Profiles 2 modules - I must admit - I'm not a huge fan of using such scenarios - they broke - and so did happened this time:</p><p>I did setup a Profile 2 user fields…
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. </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 getting some fields from users Facebook's profile?</em></p><p>Anyway - I found 3 possible implementations on Drupal Module's world:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_fb_connect…
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 Menu Views</a> , then I faced a problem to display tokens in Menu paths - again a superb solution with help of <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/menu-tokens-module-drupal-site" target="_blank">Menu Tokens module</a>.</p><p…
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 Module and working on this project I decided flags will do exactly what we need - they are going to flag nodes.
First problems arise - we actually have two flags - Add to Favourite and Add to Complete. The problem arises - how to display both…
How to solve Nginx: 413 Request Entity Too Large error
If you have ever encountered an error message that says "Nginx: 413 Request Entity Too Large", you know how frustrating it can be. This error message usually pops up when you try to upload a file that is too large for your server to handle. The good news is that it is possible to fix this error message.
In this article, we will discuss some methods you can use to solve the "Nginx: 413 Request Entity Too Large" error.
Here are some solutions to fix the "Nginx: 413 Request Entity Too Large" error:
Increase the client_max_body_size limit: The first solution is to increase the client_max_body_size limit in your Nginx configuration file. This limit determines the maximum size of the files…