JRuby on Rails: Integration Plugin Goes 1.0
The rails-integration 1.0 release has finally found its way out into the
repositories for the plugin to find, so I’d like to announce the first
release of rails-integration.
Month: March 2007
Approximate Record Count in Firebird
The following solution was originally posted to the Firebird Support Mail List by Ivan Prenosil.
I found a bug in my library – blog/post of the day
He is using Firebird and c++ for an application , You can read his story (about killing an bug)
I am so happy, I must write somewhere this, after more then a month of complains from a customer I finally solved the problem. He was complaining that my application is getting slower and slower as he uses it. If he exits and start it again it was fast. This was not easily noticeable on faster machines, but on his Pentium 1 was really slow.
Open Source Centric CRM 4.1 released With Expanded Database Support
Centric CRM Releases Open Source Centric CRM 4.1 With Expanded Database Support, New Workflow Best Practices Tool
Can be used with firebird:
Database Support
Centric CRM 4.1’s support for MySQL, IBM DB2 and Oracle 10g databases
is a significant step forward. It brings the total number of supported
databases to eleven (others include PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft SQL
Server, IBM Cloudscape, Apache Derby, Interbase, Dafodil and Firebird)
50% discount for Firebird Foundation members
I’ve just created a Home Inventory software that uses Firebird embedded. To show my appreciation to the project, and perhaps make Firebird Foundation membership more attractive, I decided to give 50% discount to Foundation members on this and all my future programs that use Firebird. Program’s page is at:
http://www.guacosoft.com/attic/
Best of all, you can take out the database backup and do whatever you want with it (it’s a regular Firebird 2.0 database).
MDB2 2.4.0 and MDB2_Driver_ibase 1.4.0 released
A new stable release of the PEAR::MDB2 abstraction layer and of the Firebird/Interbase driver has been released.
PEAR::MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR::DB and Metabase PHP database abstraction layers.
Download and changelog:
The Firebird 2.0 Book Supplement is available.
If you bought an original copy of The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers directly from IBPhoenix you should have already received an email giving you instructions on how to download your free copy of the Firebird 2.0 Supplement to the book.If you didn’t, then please let me know off list.
Firebird support in Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
David Elias has updated his patch for Firebird support in Django. All tests are passed with the current version of this patch and author consider it in production-ready quality.
PHP Database abstraction mailing list
There’s a new mailing list to discuss PHP DBAL related issues.
Read the details in this blog entry
mnoGoSearch 3.3.0
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Changes:Cluster support was added, allowing the maximum database size to be extended up to several dozens or even hundreds of millions of documents. Strong relevancy calculation improvements were made to return higher quality search results. Many new features were added and performance improvements were made.