MODx CMS overview
Some MODx related post discussing MODx cons is also here.
0. Intro
Today I am going to say something about MODx CMS.
At the moment I have used it to make one website as well as I am using it right now to make another. This is mainly the suggestion of the client, so I am using it not because I like it so very much, but just because of circumstances.
So far my experience with it is, actually, quite pleasant. MODx CMS has a lot of fine features. At the moment I can tell that it at least has the minimal things that are required to make a website. So far I have understood, that most of the MODx functionality relies on the following things: templates, template variables (TV), chunks and snippets. All the other things are quite auxiliary.
So, let us take a look and see what those are.
New blog theme
Today I decided to remove pretty much everything from the site except for the blog. Also, I chose a new theme for the blog. I hope you like it 
Just to announce - I will be filling About and Portfolio pages soon enough. Maybe in a week or two when I have free time. This is because I have quite a lot of work to do lately. But bare with me - I am going to make it up in future.
Hello world!
Welcome to my blog.
I finally made the theme for WP and installed it. Obviously, WP is my choise in blogs Anyway, soon I will start posting some useless crap. As for now you can still read my old blog, which is jefim.wordpress.com.
Dissappointed in WP anti-spam
Today I was really dissappointed by the WordPress anti-spam protection. I would guess that they are still using Akismet (?), but it does not matter - I still get a lot of spam-comments like "hey, we got stuff, come and buy".
Of course, this can be explained by the fact, that all of those undetected comments are in Russian and are not supported by WP's defence. No, it cannot be explained like that. Why? Come on! It is 2009 and I expect such well-known brands as WP to support and protect both English blogs as well as all the other languages. I do not care how they do it - they simply have to do it somehow. Why do I have to come here and see tons of new spam-comments turning my blog into a dump of ads? There is, obviously, no answer to that. And not to mention the famous bug of WP spam protection, when it could mark the author's comment as spam too. Been there, done that
On the whole I really thought that the times, when people had to mess around with configurations and come up with hacks to get Russian language to work were gone. Looks like it is too soon to celebrate 
Finland Part 2: The Arrival
So, it is already the 16th September. I guess that it is time to write some new information about my adventures in Finland (Tampere to be exact).
I went to Finland by ferry with a friend of mine. Andrew was very helpful during the day, since I had no trouble with luggage and there was always someone to speak with (== !boring). So, when we were on the road about 20 minutes from Tampere I called one of my tutors (tutor - a person, who is assigned to evey new international student, who has to help you in every way) to inform him about my arrival. He offered to meet me on the train station and so we did. It was a nice Finnish guy called Kristian. Anyway, the first thing to do was to go to TOAS and get my dorm key. It was nice, but very slow. I mean we waited for 20 minutes even though there was no queue. Anyway, I signed the contract and got a place at Keskisenkatu, TOAS location 700 (code name "Sepontalot"). They gave me a key and even a key holder for it (the key holder had "TOAS" written on it and on the package it said "Made in Taiwan Made in Taiwan Mad...." ). My tutor left at this time and me and Andrew headed for Keskisenkatu street. Found the dorm quite quickly. The location was great - right across the road there are S-Market, Nordea bank, R-Kiosk, a pharmacy and a bus stop. Everything very close. We got the luggage from Andrew's car and went to the third floor of the G block. Opened the door and saw a corridor. Two other guys were already living in the place - I arrived last. The apartment is really nice. One toilet (toilet + basin), one bathroom (shower + basin), kitchen and a balcony - those are the shared areas. Each of us has an own room, which is approx. 12-14 sq. m. big, which is quite roomy for me. In every room there is a bed (+matrace), a chair (a really crappy one ), a desk, a small book shelf and a dresser. There are 6 power plugs in total in my room, which is quite nice.
All-in-all, the TOAS dorm is not a luxury one, but still a very decent one. Next time I shall tell you about registration at the university and the orientation week we had (25.-29. Aug). Stay tuned.
YouTube – 500 Internal Server Error. A nice joke from YouTube.
So today I hit an internal server error @YouTube. It said that it would be nice of me to report the thing. "Well", - I though, - "I could report something once in a lifetime". I decided to report. The error page had a nice link to the report form. Clicked it, filled it in. The error page asked me to include some kind of encoded abra-cadabra in my report (example of this arba-cadabra: "0rF3m6tOvt-q5Dlktd3-fpLj8oGDzySl21207UB ... ... ... Rr7B1cjENm_TJhEY5_cagqyxHYMPi9HjU3o="). Ok, no problemo! Copy-paste into the "Message" box. Nothing else to do - I press "Submit". Well-well-well, what have we got here? An error! Here it is:
Please enter less than 350 characters (currently 2044 characters)
Wow! They ask me to submit some debug info and after that tell, that it is too long. Sheesh. That was stu-pid. Way to go, YouTube!
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- Федя, а кого бы ты хотел трахнуть больше всего? - спрашивает он.
- Алису Селезневу, - отвечаю я, не задумываясь.
Всё. Пойду один.
Надоели постоянные отмазки всяких людей. Я уже чёрт знает сколько времени хочу сходить на Добрыню Никитича в кино, а все постоянно 1) "работают", 2) "болеют", 3) "убираются дома" и т. д. Не хочешь - не иди. Так и скажи, а то я как идиот последний спрашиваю по нескольку раз, как будто мне больше занятся нечем. Достали.
Пойду один сегодня.