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 all this is my first package for 2008. I have created a quick XSLT package to allow you to display your latest twitter status’s on your website/blog.

For example here is my twitter page where you can see what upto or thinking.

This package installs the following files:

  • bin/CWSHelperTwitter.dll
  • xslt/CWS_twitterStatus.xslt
  • /usercontrols/Installer/CWSTwitter/cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx

The installer usercontrol cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx is used to modify the /config/xsltExtensions.config
to setup my custom XSLT extension to allow us to modify the strange format of the twitter date format.

The actual package installs the following into umbraco:

  • Macro: [XSLT] CWS:Display Twitter Status
  • XSLT: CWS_twitterStatus.xslt

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 del.icio.us

My Last.FM

I am listening to:

  • Ain't Pretending by CowbellOh Girl29 Jul 2010, 10:37
  • Just Want Your Love by CowbellOh Girl29 Jul 2010, 10:33
  • Oh Girl by CowbellOh Girl29 Jul 2010, 10:31
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.