March 2008 Archives

After a while, I ended up building WWW::Tumblr (implementing the Tumblr API), so that Blog::Normalize::Tumblr can easily replace scrapping. The interesting part would be to write small applications to interact with the WWW::Tumblr to handle your tumblelog. Only file uploads missing for now. For now.

Joerg, Blog::Normalize is your bitch.

Although it’s not even released, B::N::Blosxom could have been a breeze.

Recently, chatting with some folks on the TextMotion IRC channel, I started thinking on the places I’ve lived my whole life. From the bottom of my mind, this is a rough list:

• Aragón, Estado de México, México. The house where my parents lived in when I was borned in August, 1984. 1984-1989.
• Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico. 1989-1992. Although I’m not completely sure if we moved on the ‘88 or the ‘89. Dad’s work relocation.
• Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. 1992-1996. In spite of the myth I stupidly created among friends, I was not borned in Celaya. Where most of dad’s family lives.
• Col. Moctezuma, Mexico City, Mexico. 1996-1997. Family business.
• Col. Viaducto-Piedad, Mexico City, Mexico. 1997-1999.
• Col. Vértiz-Narvarte, Mexico City, Mexico. 1999-2006. The place where my parents still live in the center of the big city.
• Bello Monte, Caracas, Venezuela. 2006. On my stay in Venezuela for a couple of months, kindly hosted by my very nice friend, José Parrella (now with DD-powers!) and his family.
• Col. Vértiz-Narvarte, Mexico City, Mexico. 2006-2007. Got back to my parents’ place.
• Col. Roma, Mexico City, Mexico. 2007. Moved here with my beloved fiancé Raquel in February.
• Lower East Side, New York City, US. 2007. Lived there for two weeks while finding a place in the Big Apple.
• Harlem, New York City, US. 2007-2008. And Raquel and I are already looking for a place to move in to…
• Brooklyn (or Queens), New York City, US. Some time in 2008. Coming soon! ;-)

Such is life :)

Raphaël’s my homeboy.

So, we‘ve finally came up with another personal project we’ve been working on in the last couple of months: Historias de Nueva York. This is my formal introduction.

This (yet another) Spanish spoken blog tells those unheard stories of us, Latinos (and others) immigrants, are experiencing on the Big Apple. Little, funny stories about just everything we see and hear, life experiences and anecdotes waiting to be told, from New York, NY.

I hope you enjoy it :) 

As it was expected, I moved from MovableType crazyness into Tumblr. Ha, so this is now a tumblelog (the world of Intenet sometimes amazes me :P).

And as it was expected I brough Blog::Normalize::Tumblr into life. Blog::Normalize is becoming a nice little toy I like to play with. My imported data came from MovableType which was came from Wordpress. Cleanly enough, I’d be able to export Tumblr posts (or categories/tags or anything else in the future) into Wordpress again and that’d be a nice circle.

B::N::Tumblr was made, differently from the other blogging systems modules I created before, by scrapping, that’s the transparency that the model of B::N would give users and developers. After I made the whole scrapping work, and by tracing my HTTP traffic, I realized that Tumblr has an API which allows to read and write posts, lol. I’d be starting using it soonish and creating WWW::Tumblr, maybe even today. TextMotion support is also on the way.

B::N 0.0rc2 should be mirrored by CPAN soon.