I’m happy to announce the public release of PowerConsole v0.7.
What is PowerConsole
In short, PowerConsole is enhanced python interpreter that can host user defined commands. Uses pyparsing-based grammars for user commands to translate them into python calls, so it has limited support for mixing them with Python code.
May 2009
PowerConsole 0.7 is released
Change Manager from Embarcadero will add Firebird support
David Intersimone from Imprise,Borland Embarcadero wrote:
InterBase (and Firebird) will be supported in upcoming releases (this year and into early next year) all of the database tool products.
Here is the full blog about firebird support request (in the comments area)
FirebirdConfig 0.2.0.34 released
More information on http://jhonny.clubdelphi.com/firebirdconfig-english/, I saw the news on firebird.com.mx (Spanish)
Firebird Maestro 9.5 released
| SQL Maestro Group is pleased to announce the release of Firebird Maestro v. 9.5, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version comes with completely redesigned Data Export and Data Import wizards, updated BLOB Viewer, and some other new features. Read full press release.
Before May 31 you can purchase Firebird Maestro and other SQL Maestro Group products and bundles with a 20% discount.
Preparing for 6th FDD – Firebird Developers Day
The sixth edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day will be held in Piracicaba at the next 4th of July.
And there’s news this year
Music/Book/Movie Label uses Firebird
The three media catalog softwares from CodeAero uses Firebird 2.1 as database engine.
What to expect from next Delphi versions? (good news to Firebird)
Extracted from the special edition of Blaze Pascal magazine:
Project Weaver (próxima versão do Delphi, já em beta)
- Main Themes
- User Experience
- Enhance Connectivity
- Documentation
- IDE usability
- Team Productivity
- Touch
- IDE – Insight (easy Keyboard access to almost everything)
- Improvements to DataSnap
- Firebird Support
- .NET AOP
- SCM Support
- Enhanced RTTI Support
- Attribute Support
- Seamless .NET and Native communication
- Windows 7 APIs and Direct 2D
- Full Support of SOAP 1.2 Clients
Project X
- Cross-platform Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
- Cross-platform component library
- DataSnap on all platforms
Project Chromium
- Quality enhancements
- Pascal Code Formatter
- Documentation of the OTA
- New Data binding model allowing binding to almost any property on a control
- More integration with the database tools.
Project Commodore
- 64 Bit native
- Full compiler, RTL and VCL support for 64 native
- Multi-Core. Multi-threaded applications.
FirebirdClient 2.5 Final released
I’m happy to announce, after about 47 000 000 seconds of thinking and development, release of FirebirdClient 2.5. This new shiny release contains … [read more]
Here is the guide (in Italian) for installing Firebird and Python driver on Ubuntu
Firebird 2.1.2 on Ubuntu using the official tar.gz
Guide is written in Italian language but it’s easy to follow it












