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

I create sexy websites

Welcome to the home of Warren Buckley's blog a
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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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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					{$artist_var} - {$track_var}
				
				
					
					No Album Artwork ({$artist_var} - {$track_var})
				
			
			
			

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My Skill Set

This is a quick list of my skill set to date

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

My Last.FM

I am listening to:

  • As Heard On Radio Soulwax - Part 5 by 2 Many DJ's7 Jan 2009, 10:34
  • Cherry Lips by Archie Bronson OutfitDerdang Derdang7 Jan 2009, 10:29
  • As Heard On Radio Soulwax - Part 3 by 2 Many DJ's29 Dec 2008, 15:34

My Flickr

Check out all my pics from flickr

Warren Buckley is an umbraco MVP 2008/2009 Warren Buckley is an umbraco level 1 certified developer

Photo of Warren Buckley Warren Buckley is a Creative Web Specialist based in Leigh on Sea, Essex , UK.