Next Firebird conference in germany will start in about 8 weeks in Bremen, Germany. http://www.firebird-conference.com
News via twitter (please retweetit) also don’t forget about the other conferences (29 Sep in Moscow and 1st Oct in Paris)
Marco Canto noticed that
BlackFish SQL, the .NET database installed with recent versions of Delphi, is not part of Delphi XE… and it seems Embarcadero pulled the plug on it.
Would Firebird fit the bill ? , I think it would but tell us your thoughts (pro/cons) :
I really think Delphi has lacked a local and simple option, and suggesting people to buy the cheap “Interbase To Go” or pick the free Firebird Embedded still doesn’t address the original concern. With Delphi core dataset classes and data-ware controls still bound to a navigational model, a navigational database can really make simple applications fast to write and fast to execute.
It may came as a shock but Firebird does not have direct support for neither bools nor guids. On the other hand people around Firebird are smart and came with more or less standard solutions for both.
I have tested the new Firebird 2.5 SuperClassic package on Debian sid and wrote the install instructions (Flamerobin and screenshots are included in the mini guide)
If you saw the trend for firebird main web site then you should see the traffic stats for ibphoenix : it is now doubled
If you wonder how Firebird 2.1.3 stable can be compiled on Freebsd 8.1 wonder no more , Here is the thread with patches and instructions needed .
He does have some nice tutorials on the website with Freepascal and extJS
seems that traffic for main firebirdsql.org site doubled if you take a look at compete stats for the last year
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/firebirdsql.org/?metric=uv
Today we are (IBProvider team) overwhelmingly happy because we have finally released the final build of the 3rd version of IBProvider.
Of course, you can write it! All you need is a strong desire and 7 years of free time. Exactly the same time it took us to write the third version of IBProvider.
Please read about development results here and download new Firebird driver here:
Firebird driver developers results
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Regards, IBProvider Team.
