Blog Archive: July 2015

Blog Traffic Report - June 2015 - 22,569 Users

| Blogging | 11 seen

Welcome to the 21st blog traffic and statistics report. Since the very first month of my blogging career I have created a monthly blog statistics and starting January 2014 a blog income reports.June was the absolute best in traffic numbers yet. For…

Responsive Learning Web App - sales.wilsonlearning.lv

| Drupal Development | 25 seen

Recently I was contacted by a long-term customer (Wilson Learning Baltics) with a request to build a responsive web learning application for their business needs. This was quite an easy task for me, in fact I have been built a similar web app for…

Hotel Dzintars Review in Jūrmala, Latvia

| Hotel reviews | 26 seen

Dzintars hotel is located in Latvian beach resort city Jūrmala - very close to the nations capital city Riga (some 30 minutes drive). The reason I chose this hotel is plain simple - my brother works as a concierge here (family ties) and this hotel…

What's Aperture And How To Control It

| Digital Photography School | 6 seen

With this post I'm starting a new and hopefully very interesting blog category - Digital Photography School on my blog (www.reinisfischer.com). The reason that made me to create such new category is simple - some time ago I bought my first DSRL…

St. John's Church in Saldus

| Churches and Monasteries | 20 seen

Some time ago I visited a lovely town Saldus (located some 100km from capital Riga), one of the main sights here is a church - St. John's Church of Saldus. As usual I took my camera and made a few shots here. The altarpiece at Saldus St. John's…

What Is Minimum Wage In European Union 2015

| Macroeconomics | 96 seen

A year ago I created a blog post about minimum wages in European Union in 2014, that post generated a lot of views (more than 20,000 page views) and some buzz (got shared on Facebook, Reddit, and many other websites) Update: Minimum Wages in…

Best Recommended 9 Ordino Hotels in Andorra

| Hotel reviews | 11 seen

Ordino is a small and the most northerly parish in the Principality of Andorra located very close to the nations capital city Andorra la Vella. I discovered this place by accident about a year ago. Back then I was looking for…

How to Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header Nginx

| Servers | 62 seen

The other day I visited tools.pingdom.com to test performance for my blog (the one you are currently reading) and I did fine I have a two bottlenecks: Remove query strings from static resources Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header I managed…

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Skrunda

| Churches and Monasteries | 17 seen

History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Skrunda dates back to 1668 as stated on official Skrunda municipality website. I took my camera and went to memorize this place.  Skrunda church Bell tower of Skrunda Church Back view…

Skrunda Cultural Center

| Entertainment | 13 seen

Right, I just made this name - Skrunda Cultural Center what is a direct translation from Latvian Skrundas Kultūras Centrs. I wouldn't probably mention this place on my blog, but since lately I have been travelling around Skrunda a lot, I decided…

The Stender’s Bar&Club in Kuldīga

| Restaurant reviews | 14 seen

I believe soon I will have a complete list of Kuldīga restaurants, but prior that I would like to introduce you another interesting place in this charming Curonian city, meet The Stender's Bar & Club.  Stender's Bar&Club is located…

Home Remodelling - How It All Starts

| Home Remodeling | 11 seen

Recently my better part and I became a lucky home-owners, we went through a long and bureaucratic procedure to inherit a house in scenic place in a very remote country. The house is in a very bad condition and asks for a lot of investments - one of…

Širhans - Azerbaijani cuisine in Riga, Latvia

| Restaurant reviews | 110 seen

Širhans (Shirhan) is a lovely restaurant serving Azerbaijani cuisine located in the suburbs of Sarkandaugava in Riga, Latvia (Meža Prospekts 90). I visited this place just shortly after a visit to Riga Zoo. If you just like me enjoy Caucasian…