Creative Web Specialist - An online portfolio and resource site of Warren Buckley

I create sexy websites

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Creative Web Specialist, who works mainly with Opensource .NET CMS Umbraco to create clean sexy websites that are content managed.

This blog is mainly used for my own perosnal web snippets and things I learn along the way when using Umbraco, but if you find anything useful to read whilst you here then great!

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Dec 23rd

Display Last.FM recent tracks with album art using Umbraco and jQuery

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Hello with a few days to go until Christmas, I thought I would share with you a mashup tip using Umbraco to list my recently listened to tracks using the Last.FM service and then using jQuery I am able to do an AJAX call to get the album art image remotely.

Before I start I will show you the method that can achieve this result entirely using XSLT in Umbraco however this is a slow process and is alot quicker to use the jQuery method which I will show you afterwards.

XSLT solution
Below is the XSLT code for you to view how easy it is to create a mashup just using XSLT in Umbraco.

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XHTML
CSS
Photoshop (Slicing)
XSLT
ASP.NET
Umbraco .NET CMS

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I am listening to:

I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves Remix) by Black Kids1 Dec 2008, 17:34
Gorecki by LambLamb1 Dec 2008, 17:28
Use Somebody by Kings of Leon1 Dec 2008, 17:24