Marina Novikova went to Bali – Indonesia
Marina won the contest and she is now in Bali .There are many other journal/blog entries on the site (nice pictures too)
ps: we hope we contributed to her winning . Who wants to go next ? 😉
Month: September 2006
Lazarus 0.9.18 released
Vincent writes “The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.18 release. This release is based on fpc 2.0.4.
Firebird and Alfresco CMS
Posted by: “maximshiryaev” MaximShiryaev.at.mail.ru
Date: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:24 am (PDT)
Hello.
Some time ago I’ve been evaluating Alfresco – an opensource CMS. Its stack is this: MySQL -> Hibernate -> SpringFramework -> tomcat -> Web interface.
Since all other systems in our company use Firebird as a database back-end I’ve decided to move Alfresco to Firebird.
Here are the steps:
mojoPortal 2.1.3 Released
See my previous blog post for release notes.New files are available from the download page.
The Name “Firefox” Not Allowed In Ubuntu/Debian?
Related to the Firebird name and Firefox trademark defending (You will spot firebird mentioned in the second link)
DBMS and charset settings, a summary and a call for help
Some clarification about charset settings for the various DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird/Interbase, Oracle, Sqlite) and a call for help for charset setting support in PEAR::MDB2.
Firebird better on locking than mssql and informix
I wrote a simple test to test locking problem on other databases we use (DB2 AS400, DB2 9.1, PostgreSQL, Oracle 10g, Firebird and MS SQL Server 2005).
Who’s using Debian+Firebird?
Humanistisch Instituut voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, The Netherlands http://www.hivos.nl/
The organisation uses Debian GNU/Linux on half of their servers, i.e.
about 10 systems.
SQLObject SQLObject 0.7.1 released
From Oleg Deribas:
There is new 0.7.1 version of SQLObject – Object Relational Manager for
python programming language: sqlobject.orgSQLObject supports firebird: sqlobject.org/SQLObject.html#id6
And there is another popular ORM for python – SQLAlchemy which supports firebird also.
Migration from Ms-sql to Firebird call to story
We have an opportunity to have a session at Solution Linux 2007 (Paris)
I will talk about migration from MsSQL to Firebird