‘English’ Archive

Release Party NL

As the developers are slowly wrapping up KDE 4.8, it’s time to sign up to a release party near you. We have to make those release parties at least as big as all the protests against SOPA. We can do better, right? So, Wikipedia should implement a page which only makes it possible to read [...]

KDE’s Infrastructure.

Eike Hein has posted an excellent overview about KDE’s infrastructure. Because I think it is worth a read for everyone, I’ll repeat it here: During KDE’s (one of the largest open source communities around, with about 2500 active developer accounts with direct write access to many millions of lines of code across dozens of products, [...]

Proper credits

In Aaron’s blog about easy building with git split modules, he closes with compliments to Michael Pyne. That’s exactly spot on and well deserved. But the thing is, this feature was discussed a long time ago, see for example the famous sysadmin advice. The xml-file making it possible for kdesrc-build to work like it does [...]

[RFC] Beta: new api search tool

Yesterday evening I sat down and whipped up a new search engine to search through our api documentation. I felt there was a gap between the default api.kde.org, which behaves a bit awkward now and then and prefers a class name so it can jump directly to that class, which might be a bit tricky [...]

Two factor authentication.

How many websites do you have in your bookmarks which require a username and a password to log in? I bet you have at least 20. That basically leaves you with two options to remember your passwords. Use the same passwords for all the websites, or you have thought about the fact that that is [...]