Personal Webpage of David Duggins

Well, I was born on a normal day in July, 1981 and have been creating chaos ever since. Born in North Carolina, but raised in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, I have been messing around with computers nearly my entire life. I wrote my first program in assembly when I was 11. In my early teens I ran a BBS connected to Fidonet and started building a website for my band. In 1999 I was introduced to Linux, and it was love at first compile. I started my career in IT in the early 2000's doing IT for a Car Dealership in Charlotte NC. I wrote my first major web app in Cold Fusion (an ecom app) at that time. In 2006 I left Charlotte and moved down to Columbia where starting working as a developer, freelancer and consultant. Currently I am working as a freelance developer and DevOps consultant!!

14 Oct 2010

Last.FM Feed in Ruby

\n So I had a flash based Last.Fm applet that I had been using to display my most recently listened to tracks. I really wanted to remove all the flash from my site (plus the applet was no longer supported and who knows when it would have gone away!) So I started looking into how I could get the recent tracks on my page. The easiest way seems to be using the same feed code that I was am using for my blog and read the rss feed. So, here is the basic code.

I have this setup as a class, with a method to display the feed. I did this because I am planning on expanding this to display album art at a later time….so keep checking back!!