wade womersley – york based software engineer
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wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Square Enix have put up a new video with interviews and a few unseen sections of FFXIII on the site which you can view here. But most importantly, they’ve announced the US/Europe release date as the 9th March 2010, not that far away really! It is now also available for pre-order at Amazon, be sure … Read More “Final Fantasy XIII Official Release Date Announced, 09th March 2010!” »
What can only be described as a human function, this thermal image at first glance looks like something from space, captured by a telescope….then you realise it’s just a man’s butt while farting and your world comes crumbling down.
John Tartaglia‘s Imaginocean!, a new family musical set in the depths of the ocean, will debut November 20 on Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas. Donna Drake directs the production. Conceived and written by Tartaglia, with music by William Wade, the show follows the adventure of a group of fish friends, who … Read More “John Tartaglia’s ‘Imaginocean!’ to appear on the Oasis of the Seas” »
It’s getting close to Christmas 2009 and once again it looks like X-Factor is going to be the christmas number one, regardless of what else comes up. I’m not sure about you but I feel it’s time for a traditional christmas song again, no more random song for christmas, it’s time for a real christmas … Read More “Santa Claus is Coming to Town for Christmas Number One 2009! (not X-Factor)” »
Yes, you heard it right, the game engine that usually costs to license is now totally free for anyone to use (without any payments at all for non-commercial use). If you decide to make a game and release it, they’ll let you earn $5,000 dollars gratis, after that they want a 25% royalty – I … Read More “Epic Games releases Unreal Development Toolkit for FREE” »
I’ve updated my Link Checker (site crawler) located at https://wade.one/tools/linkchecker to allow downloading of the data it finds as CSV files. So all redirect URL’s, 404’s and meta data for all pages can be downloaded. The links are at the bottom of the page after the initial output of data. Use the Link Checker here.
Artificially generated black holes could provide us with the power to make inter-solar travel a possibility. New research shows how strapping a black hole to your starship might just give you the juice to get to Alpha Centauri. Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland of Kansas State University propose a way to use black holes as … Read More “Artificial Black Hole Could Power Space Ships Soon” »
I’ve been stumbling around for new stuff to use in the world of webmastery this morning and stumbled across this rather useful tool. A few weeks ago I attended PHPNW along with some guys from work, one of the talks at the end of the day was by a Microsoft guy who was trying to … Read More “Adobe Browser Labs – Better than Microsoft Expression” »
I’m an avid Final Fantasy fan and am really looking forward to the upcoming FF games, both the online and the regular RPG games. One thing Square Enix never fails to deliver on is graphical quality – and for anyone who knows me and games, they’ll know my main pull to a new game is … Read More “Square Enix releases eight new Final Fantasy XIII screenshots.” »
It’s almost Halloween and that means costumes, however one parent seriously needs to re-think their childs costume, a fuzzy monster with a penis and single testicle isn’t going to go down well with a lot of parents I’m pretty sure! You can view more over at io9.