A preview of the new board is now available at http://dnfbb.fbtalk.net/, you will need to register to see more details.
although this is an early beta, any feedback (within the dnfbb forum) is welcome.
[ED:You might notice a short delay when receiving your signup email, or password reminder requests.Here is why]
After reading a post in the Firebird forum at Devshed I immediately put up a small example about writing a trigger (and also upgraded my favourite tool, Flamerobin, to the latest version) , here it goes [ED:tutorial written by pabloj]
For those of you data hounds out there that use open source databases.
May I suggest the excellent Firebird, coupled with IBexpert, as opposed to mySQL.
I have found it a heck of a lot easier to design and implement stored procedures. It is open source and rock solid.
That is J. J. Walter’s opinion about firebird , expressed in his blog.
Meik “Acyd Burn” Sievertsen, phpBB’s Development Team Leader has just announced that the bug tracker for phpBB3 née Olympus is now open
Supported DBMS
Though developed using MySQL, the wonders of a DBAL means phpBB Olympus already supports a wide number of databases:
* Firebird (firebird) – Firebird 1.5+/Interbase 7.1+
Read more
New: IBExpert Developer Studio 2006.03.15
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Today we uploaded a new Version of IBExpert Developer Studio on www.ibexpert.com |
What is IBExpert Developer Studio?
from this thread on the orafaq forum:
“There is no way we would be able to raise the money required to buy a commercial Oracle license.”
Hello Firebird Developers,
I’m the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does static source code
analysis to look for defects in code. You may have heard of us or of our
technology from its days at Stanford (the “Stanford Checker“). The
reason I’m writing is because we have set up a framework internally to
continually scan open source projects and provide the results of our
analysis back to the developers of those projects. Firebird is one of
the 32 projects currently scanned at:
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Recently the main page of the Firebird Foundation site got a facelift. Check it out and if you are not a member of the Foundation, maybe it is a good time to subscribe and help the economic viability of the Firebird project. |
“IntraWeb Studio is a professional Content Management System (CMS). It enables you to edit and manage your website in a very efficient and cost effective way.
All of your files and documents for a web site are kept in a repository. The repository may be located on your development machine or on an external repository server (IWS Pro and up). The repository is implemented in an SQL based DBMS. Currently IWS supports FireBird, IWS Personal and Desktop edition use an embedded version of FireBird – no special setup is required.”
