Rss in a Div

Does anybody have any good online tutorials of how to display a rss/atom feed in a div on a html page. I have found one or two using ajax and php rss parser but I have never done this before therefore I want some options other than the one I have found.

Has anyone used SimplePie to integrate rss feeds?

Basically I have a wordpress blog as a part of my website and I want to dynamically pull a few posts to display on my index page.