She’s everything I ever wanted Originally uploaded by Wade Brooks

Alone and crying Originally uploaded by Wade Brooks

And she loves to dance Originally uploaded by Wade Brooks

From the App Hub site: Beginning with XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh, the XNA Framework expands programming language support to include Visual Basic (VB). Visual Basic programs can use all of the services of the XNA Framework to create exciting Windows Phone games. More info here: http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/gamedevelopment/VBSupportForXNA

The Beta SDK for the XBox Kinect is out. Check out the links below. Documentation Here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/guides.aspx Download Here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx

I created this application to write the current real time stock price to our intranet server. The application uses Google’s stock price API. The resulting XML file is parsed for the price and volume which is then saved to the local web server as a text file to be included in a web page. The [...]

For those of you without smart phones, Google lets you get information using text messages. To get the stock price for a stock text stock “symbol” to google (466453). More information can be found here: http://www.google.com/mobile/sms/

I thought this was cool, so I made one for wadesword.com. You can get your word cloud for facebook, twitter, google+ and others here: http://timc.idv.tw/wordcloud/en/#

I started playing Need for Speed: The Run and they have a car pack and challenge series available from Old Spice. Here is the link: http://oldspice.ea.com/form?statusCode=303 The included cars are: Mercedes SLS AMG, Ford Mustang Boss 302, and a Nissan Silvia S14A. So far I am very impressed with the gaming and graphics. My Xbox [...]