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Drupal & Servers

How To Regenerate Drupal GMAP Marker Cache (Request for Invalid Marker Set)

Although it doesn't happen often, in rare situations you might get in trouble with GMAP marker sets. The most common case is change with folder permissions or migrating site to another host.

How to add Custom Markers for Gmap Module Drupal

Here is how it looks:



Request for invalid marker set notification

And here is how map field looks:



Map with a missing marker (s)

The default map is displayed.

Luckily there is a simple solution…

Postcards from Kuldīga

Kuldīga has been featured on the blog many times, starting old brick bridge over the Venta river, including flying fish over Venta rapid, ending some of the finest Kuldīga restaurants

In today's Piece of Life series - a tranquil sunset from Kuldīga


Statue of Love during sunset in Kuldīga

A cool, wood carved sculpture. Compare this one with the metallic sculpture of Ali and Nino (located in Batumi, Georgia)



Brick bridge in…

Tranquil Sunset at Dubulti

Dubulti, has been our home since February 2018, we are spending here this Summer.

One of the rare and actually only attractions here is the beach. I've been documenting it a lot lately.

In today's Piece of Life series - a tranquil sunset from Dubulti beach:



Storytelling photo - mother and child in a sunset

Actually, that was here in Jūrmala, I decided to take my second 365 days photo challenge. Photos from today are from folder day 5…

Drupal & Servers

How To Fix: Error: Call to undefined function curl_init()

After upgrading from Ubuntu 12 to Ubuntu 16 I discovered an error for Drupal website sending e-mails using Mailsystem + Postmark

here is the error code:


Error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in Mail_Postmark->send() (line 322 of /srv/www/reinisfischer.com/public_html/sites/all/libraries/postmark-php/Postmark.php).

Luckily there is an easy solution, installing missing curl:


sudo apt-get install php-curl

Hope, that helps!

Investing

Baltic Dividend Stock Market Review - Thoughts After Investing for a One Year

April 2018, marks a small one year anniversary since I've been investing in the Baltic Stock market, more precisely - Baltic dividend stocks. 

I decided to invest in the Baltic stocks, once I found I'm too short to open Interactive Brokers account for buying US stocks (required opening minimum is $10,000). Buying Baltic stocks from local brokers (SEB bank) is relatively cheap (about 3 EUR commission per trade).

Back in April 2017 I…

Drupal & Servers

How To Migrate Drupal Website From Host to Another Host

There might be a dozen of reasons why migrating your existing Drupal (or any other CMS) website from one host to another. In today's article, I will share my experience migrating Drupal 7 from one host to another before upgrading to Drupal 8

In this guide, I will migrate Drupal 7 between two separate Linode VPS, at one there is Ubuntu 12.04 and php 5.5 version while at the other there is Ubuntu 16.04 and php 7 version.

Data…

Lazy Day in The Beach (Dubulti - Majori)

it was one of the sunniest days in early April 2018, we opted in for a Dubulti - Majori (Jūrmala, Latvia) lazy hiking trip. The route is easy and distance is pretty short. 

As usual - I was equipped with a camera and captured some moments. The inspiration for this title I took from here: Lazy Day in Beach (Torremolinos, Spain)

In fact, that is a thing I have been thinking a lot lately - Jūrmala could be developed in a style…

Living in Georgia

During the past 4 years GEL has lost its value against USD by -27.51%

It has been a while since I last time examined GEL/USD exchange rates. It seems more than four years have passed already. Back in 2014, I was concerned about GEL exchange rates because I had some deposits in Georgian National currency. Now in 2018 I don't feel anymore too much concerned, because I have diversified a lot across multiple currencies. I stopped any deposits in GEL back around 2015, after losing some 20% in a…

Crypto

To Break Even My GPU Mining Rig, Ethereum Should Reach $5,153

It has been a while since my latest updates with my Ethereum GPU mining rig. In fact, Q1 2018 has been pretty dull for crypto investors, including miners.

Long story short - at the end of 2017 I decided to build a small Ethereum GPU mining rig, now in the middle of April 2018, in total, I have invested in this mining rig $1,661, though the total ROI has been just 11.63%.

In the past 4 months, I have mined humble 0.32 ETH, with today'…

Next stop - Station Dubulti (B&W Photography)

Black and White (B&W) is not the part of my favorite photo techniques, but sometimes a good B&W can add some drama to a photo story.

I don't call myself a drama expert (at least in photography), but I have tried in the past and sometimes love to experiment with this photo technique. See: Wandering In The Woods B&W Photography

In today's Piece of Life series - a single photo from my second 365 days photo project's second…

Investing

Thoughts about Upcoming Dividend Income From Baltic Stocks in May 2018 (Zemaitijos Pienas, Olympic Entertainment Group, Klaipedos Nafta)

It feels like I'm losing ground under my feet when looking on the future dividend income for the month of May 2018.At the start, Olympic Entertainment group announced it's intentions to leave Nasdaq Baltics (here I hopped for lucrative dividends) - I decided to sell my humble holdings of Olympic Entertainment Group and bought instead Kaunas Energijos and some other stock for the upcoming month of June.Today Zemaitijos Pienas announced…

Latvia

Easter Egg Painting 2018

The Christ is risen! Though we already celebrated Easters last week, the Orthodox Church (including Georgia) is celebrating Easters on April 8th, 2018. In today's Piece of Life series - our  already annual tradition - Easter egg painting (from the last week)Easter egg painting 2018Egg decor for 2018 Cat enjoying painted Easter eggsEaster egg and chocolate candy basket 2018Happy Easters!

Farewell to Winter (Sunrise at Jūrmala beach)

It was in the early April morning, I couldn't sleep, and decided to grab a camera and catch a lovely sunrise at the nearby Jūrmala beach. I remembered the times we use to live in Batumi, Georgia and went out for a walk just shortly before sunrise. Jūrmala ain't no Batumi, but still, can I get some mood out of it?

After this morning's short photo walk I decided to start my second 365 days photo challenge, that said - Farewell to Winter…

Investing

March 2018 Dividend Income Report - $52.88

March is finally over. The last March was really uncomfortable and in fact, it was the first month from my short investor experience when my total net worth actually decreased. Many things happened to my portfolio last month, in total, I lost about $3,000 in value for crypto investments. One company from the Nasdaq Baltics announced its intentions leaving the exchange.When writing these dividend income reports, I usually love to write how I…

Investing

Mintos.com Peer to Peer Lending Review 2018

I first heard about Mintos.com peer to peer lending marketplace back in 2016, starting with 2017 I decided to invest some chunk of money on this platform.Now in 2018, Mintos.com is the top performing passive income revenue stream for me.I keep investing also in stocks, mutual funds, and cryptocurrencies. At the end of Q1 2018, mintos.com took the second largest position (after stocks) in my portfolio with 28.6% of my funds invested in…

Crypto

Entering Negative Value For Ethereum Investment - Crypto Bear Market 2018

The cryptocurrency bear market which has started in 2018, has finally hit my humble cryptocurrency portfolio and have vanished all the huge gains I made at the end of 2017. Ethereum (from my portfolio) has been hit the most. 

Since the begging with 2018, I have lost about $3,000 virtual money - January and March have hit portfolio the most. It's not that I wouldn't be aware that cryptos are volatile, in fact, from my short crypto investor…

Waiting For The Spring (Sunset HDR)

A tranquil evening, remote road and beautiful sunset. I was prepared, backpack with the gear was in the backseat, and here you go - tranquil mood, lots of clouds and my beloved HDR photography technique.

In a couple of weeks (days) it will start blooming, but for now, there is even some snow leftover in the ditches.  Shot in Latvia, at the end of March 2018.



Sunset in Latvia



Sunset HDR

Personal

Documentary Around the World by Graf Zeppelin (1929 footage)

Documentary Around the World by Zeppelin is a film by Dutch director Ditteke Mensink made first aired on BBC Four in 2010.

This was one of the most interesting and quality films I've watched lately. The story is about Graf Zeppelin flight around the world in 1929. The route is following  New York - Friedrichshafen - Moscow (didn't stop here) - Tokyo - Los Angeles - New York.

The story is told through the letters and…

Personal

Learn to Read Georgian in 5 Days

Strange, how it works - It was on a lazy Saturday afternoon when I finally decided to buy a Russian literature's classic - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. While reading this book I decided to launch a new topic series on the blog - Bookshelf, keeping notes and sharing books I've read.

While browsing Amazon's store online accidentally I found this great learning guide - Learn to Read Georgian in 5 Days by Irakli Aleksidze. The price for…

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