An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs & make video's, work out at the gym, and many more. Contact me
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Why I Decided to Invest in CGNT Stock
Investing often intertwines personal experiences with financial decisions. My recent choice to purchase two shares of Cognyte Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGNT) was sparked by a photograph of my relative from Israel standing beside the company's logo. Assuming she works there, I saw an opportunity to connect over a shared interest. Despite CGNT being…
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…
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>…
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…
Customizing Subpage page.tpl.php Design in Drupal: Tips and Tricks
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…
Minimum wage in Baltic states
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…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 10 - Views exposed filters
<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…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 9 - adding menu
<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" alt="…
Population changes in former Soviet Union
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…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 8 - Theming subtheme CSS
<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…
Drupal views archive page
<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.…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 7 - Theming views
<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…
Week #5 of blogging 365 days in a row
<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…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 6 - Working with blocks
<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…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 5 - Custom fronpage
<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" alt="…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 4 - Creating views
<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…
10 largest countries by military expenditures 2012
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…
Week #4 of blogging 365 days in a row
<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.…
Dauphinoise potatoes
Time by time, I like to experiment with food preparation, this time I decided to make a Dauphinoise potato, inspired by BBC Good Food recipe. As it might happen, it happened this time as well - I didn't stick to BBC…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 3 - Better administration
Recently I started a tutorial series - How to build a Drupal site from scratch. In part 1 I'm talking about planing a site. In part 2, I'm showing how to make a subtheme from Bootstrap theme. Before digging deeper in…
Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 2 - Applying a subtheme
Recently I started a tutorial series - How to build a Drupal site from scratch. In part 1 I'm talking about planing a site. In this tutorial I'm giving a real example for building a tourism companies web site for real…