5Sep2009

Delicious to WordPress importer

En: Wordpress

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Un importador de entradas para Delicious.

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deliciouswpDisclaimer: I’m not a PHP programmer. While I’ve tested the importer I can’t guarantee that it’ll work in your particular hosting configuration or that it won’t corrupt your data or kill your dog. Always backup before trying out something like this.

This importer uses the XML data that the delicious API produces for importing posts into WordPress. Heavily based on the RSS importer code included in WordPress.

What it does

Import Delicious XML

  • It uses the title of the link as the post title.
  • It can interpret the tags from Delicious as either Categories or Tags.
  • It interprets the ‘Notes’ field as the post content.
  • It adds the link to the post content in a paragraph with the class ‘delicious_post_link’. Example: <p class="delicious_post_link"><a href="http://google.com">Google</a></p>

Notes

  • If you choose ‘Tags’, the posts will default to the Uncategorized category.
  • It uses SimpleXMLParser so the XML file has to be well formed. It’ll transform & to &amp; but other characters could cause the script to choke. If it does choke, it’ll show the offending word/character so it’s easy to correct the error.
  • It eats the linebreaks from the Notes field. It shouldn’t be a problem as the XML export file doesn’t seem to respect them either.
  • It depends on the server but try to upload files of reasonable size.
  • It imports all the entries present in the XML file, including ‘private’ and ’sent’ ones. Remember to delete them from the XML file if you don’t want them in your blog.
  • I can’t provide support for this importer. I’m not a php programmer. Install at your own risk. Remember to backup.

Download

Delicious to Wordpress Importer v0.1

How to Install and Use

Get your Delicious XML file from here (you have to login) and save it somewhere. It may take a couple of refreshes before it works.

Unzip the downloaded importer and upload it to /wp-admin/importer/ folder. A ‘Delicious’ entry should appear in the Tools > Import sub-section of the administration panel. Follow the on-screen instructions.

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26Ago2009

Pidgin 2.6.1 in Jolicloud

En: Tech

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Como actualizar a Pidgin 2.6.1 en Jolicloud.

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pidgin161

Last week Pidgin 2.6.0 (and later 2.6.1) got finally released. It has a couple of nice goodies like audio&video support for XMPP and theming support, but the truth is, I was waiting for this update because they fixed the ability to save and use animated emoticons. :)

Upgrading Pidgin to the new version in a standard Ubuntu installation is quite easy, just follow the instructions detailed here and update. However, it won’t work in Jolicloud unless you make a small change to the second command to make the repository believe we are using Ubuntu Jaunty:

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \     `lsb_release --short --codename` main | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

Replace the bold text with “jaunty”, without quotes, so the whole thing ends up as

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \    jaunty main | \ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.

Copy and paste both commands on a terminal and upgrade. That’s all. :)

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17Ago2009

Schwarzenegger: La ropa linda de Parral

En: Fotografia

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Schwarzenegger: The prettiest clothes of Parral.

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Schwarzenegger: La ropa linda de Parral

Arnold Schwarzenegger, auspiciador oficial?

Una curiosidad que vi en Parral, se me habia olvidado que le habia sacado una foto. :)

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11Ago2009

How to install “Add/Remove” in Jolicloud

En: Tech

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Como instalar "Agregar o Quitar Programas" típico de Ubuntu en Jolicloud.

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Jolicloud is a new OS for netbooks that offers, among other things, a software installer based around Prism applications (basically, webpages on a stripped down browser) and a few system staples like VLC.

jolicloud

While the idea is good there’s not a lot of software available through their system yet and typing apt-get in a terminal, while easy, can get confusing for someone used to a GUI. The alternative, Synaptic, a graphic package manager, offers way too many alternatives and also ends up being confusing to a new user.

Ubuntu solved this dilemma by implementing a very simple application installer that anyone can use. Jolicloud doesn’t include it but it’s very easy to add it.

Open a terminal window (Accessories > Terminal in the launcher or press [ALT] + F2] and enter gnome-terminal) and copy&paste the following command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-app-install

Write your password when it asks for it and that’s it.

addremoveapp

Note: The shortcut for the app should appear in Accessories (logging off may be necessary) but if not, it can be added via Preferences > Main Menu.

createlauncher

Update: Add/Remove seems to have been added to the default installation of jolicloud alpha 2c. :)

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10Ago2009

Anime Theme Songs

En: Media

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Mi respuesta a "Qué canciones de animé disfrutas?".

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mayascream

OH NOES! A POST ABOUT ANIME!

I spent almost an hour browsing youtube looking for an adecuate answer for the question “Which anime theme songs do you enjoy?” and I don’t want to lose the links in case that forum decides to erase everything (again) so… here it is. Massive youtube/anime/dorky post ahead, consider yourself warned.

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17Abr2009

Londres, Inglaterra.

En: Fotografia, Viajes

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Some pictures from my very short trip to London, England.

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Big Ben

Big Ben

Por alguna razón el solo pensar de subir estas fotos me daba flojera. Tal vez porque implicaban el final de mi verano/invierno y de mi pequeña aventura.

Sin embargo si no las subia, nunca más iba a actualizar este blog. Asi que aquí están. Sin mucho comentario esta vez, mi estadía en Londres fue tan corta que tengo pocos recuerdos aparte de lo que las fotos muestran.

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23Feb2009

The Lough

En: Fotografia

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A short photo-entry about The Lough.

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The Lough, Cork

The Lough, Cork

El jueves fui a dar una vuelta al conocido “The Lough” o en español “El Lago”.

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16Feb2009

Cruzando calles en Cork

En: Viajes

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The difference between crossing the street in Cork and Chile.

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Crossing the street in Cork

Cruzando la calle en Cork

La fotografía muestra una de las cosas que más me llamaron la atención cuando llegué a Cork: los semaforos para peatones no te dan la pasada a menos que todos los semaforos relacionados con esa calle estén en rojo. La responsabilidad de no ser atropellado es del peaton en vez del automovilista. No sé si es mejor o peor, pero es agradable saber que nadie va a doblar repentinamente mientras cruzas.

Otra cosa curiosa es que casi nadie cruza la calle si el semaforo no se lo permite. He visto calles sin ningun auto circulando con gente esperando a cada lado en la calzada esperando el verde. Aunque es comprensible considerando la mala fama que tienen los conductores irlandeses.

En cualquier caso, los automovilistas de acá tambien tienen que cuidarse de no infringir la ley o les puede pasar lo siguiente.

Flickr Video
12Feb2009

Four ways to make your WordPress blog multilingual

En: Wordpress

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Un resumen de las maneras que hay para crear un blog multilenguaje basado en WordPress.

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Bilingual Address Sign, Cork

Since I had the idea of Memografía I wanted it to be bilingual. While my native language is Spanish, most of what I read and watch is in English, causing my first thoughts about writing something to be in this language even if I have to wrestle with it.

Surprisingly enough, while not supported by default, WordPress has a wide variety of choices when talking about multilingual blogging and in this post I’ve tried to briefly summarize them in four categories: Machine Translation, External Human Translation, Internal Human Translation and, finally, Multilingual Blogging.

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9Feb2009

Barcelona, los 5 días más cortos de mi vida

En: Fotografia, Viajes

[en]

Another travel photolog, this time of my 5-day trip to Barcelona. Again, mostly in Spanish but you don't need to speak it to see the pictures :) (besides, the title tags of the pictures are in english).

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Barcelona

Barcelona, España

Gracias al espectacular regalo de navidad por parte de Sabrina y John pude ir a Barcelona la semana pasada a disfrutar una cálida semana invernal.

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