KludgeHack

Johnny Lee does it again!

Johnny Lee, a guy that doesn’t need introduction, has made again a superb demonstration using only Wii hardware featuring head-tracking.

As Michael Battle said, “you’d better loosen your shoes, because this is about to knock your socks off!”.

Its video (below) shows it all:

I was totally impressed, as I’m sure you will be too…

You should check its Wii projects, because there’s even more cool stuff there.

Kaxaml Source Now Available on CodePlex

Following on my previous post, I’m happy to tell you that since then the Kaxaml source-code was made available on CodePlex.

Check out http://www.codeplex.com/Kaxaml.

More info at the author blog.

Kaxaml: Mighty Power 1.0

Finally the so powerful Xaml editor Kaxaml is out of beta and better than ever. Clearly puts all those others Xaml editors on the corner.

If you use some previous version, you will be happy to see the changes, as they are marvelous.

The Intellisense is now based on XSD (like Visual Studio) and looks very similar, editor updated (from SharpDevelop project), UI cleaner and even more beautiful, better snippets, tabs, silverlight support, etc…

You can see some release notes on the author blog or download this new version. The source code will also be available soon on Codeplex.

Did I already mention how beautiful this software is? 5* UI experience.

Like Nathan said:

If one guy can create this…

Imagine what a team of people properly harnessed can create.

Remodelation complete, back to Blogging

I finished all major changes (domain change and new layout) and I’m starting blogging again.

In the meanwhile, Happy New Year!

Upgrading my web identity…

Ever since I started blogging I meant to change this blog name, and now I’ve decided that I will do so until the year’s end.

So, in the next few days I will change the blog name to KludgeHack and move this blog to its new domain: KludgeHack.com. I also plan to change the blog theme to something more appealing.

If you subscribe to the feed, please change the feed address to the new domain.

And let me say name changing is not an easy task! Creativity aside, domain registry has been damaged to a point, where its almost impossible to get a available domain for a small (7 letters?) name within a main top-level domain. Even so, I think KludgeHack was a very good catch. 

Do you know what a kludge is? If you don’t, you probably should

From wikipedia, its definition is:

A kludge is a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty. In engineering, a kludge is a workaround, typically using unrelated parts cobbled together.

Translating the full name, it stands for klumsy, lame, ugly, dumb, but good enough hack.

Well, I like it so much because it relates so well with my daily hacks as a programmer.

Hope you like it, like I did.