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Volunteering today at Riverside Park! Trash clean-up and tree maintenance is rewarding and important. You too can help if you are in the Grand Rapids, MI area! http://www.friendsofgrparks.org/ 

Purchased my new Pebble watch from Kickstarter last March, one year later... it arrived!

Even better, it’s open-source with the source code on GitHub!

A company called Quirky held a contest to find the next Apple accessory to bring to market. My husband had a pretty cool idea that he submitted. Check it out and if you like it please vote! ❤ 

A game-play demo of my first Xbox video game built with C# and Microsoft’s XNA framework. I worked with a small team of student developers on this.  My core responsibilities included programming for environmental obstacles with collision detection and all of the background design elements.  This game was programmed to deploy on a Window's PC as well as to an Xbox 360 with scaleability in mind to add on future game features and playable levels.

Grace Hopper (1906-1992)

Evolution of Programming Infographic

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New setup... much better!

A nice little upgrade from my old one.   :)

Rough demo of my first Xbox video game built with C# and Microsoft's XNA framework. Here I am testing the first stages of character movement, as you can see there are still quite a few bugs to iron out. I am working with a small team of developers on this. My core responsibilities include programming for environmental obstacles with collision detection and the background design elements. So much more to do... (ie: multi-player, AI baddies, power-up's, melee weapons, user interface, etc.) will post an update of the finished project in a couple weeks.

Hubby built me a new setup over the weekend... photos coming soon.