We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB 3.0.2 package. This version has seen numerous stability fixes, performance tweaks and general bugs fixed. Additionally one minor security-related bug was fixed. [ED:it should work without problems with firebird 2.x]
NHibernate 2.0.0.Beta1 is released. It is comparable to Hibernate 3.2 in terms of features.
My previous post caused some very interesting discussions on the decisions that I am facing when starting on a new project. The suggestions were as varied as the choices in front of me. It seems that any of the alternatives can do the job, so why don’t I just make a decision and move on? Because its at this crucial point that any choice I make will impact the direction of the application for many years to come.
This is the last week for registering to the 5th Firebird Developers Day, to be held in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil, in 19/July. Right now, the capacity is almost full (95%). More information here.
Read details on the IBProvider site.
They use Firebird in their products http://www.orgbusiness.com/
[ED: Alex Stanciu told me they use firebird 2.0.3 in their products]
The Firebird Documentation Project coordinator (Paul Vinkenoog) is pleased to announce that the first volume of the Firebird Language Reference Update series, for Firebird 1.0.x and 1.5.x, is now available in both HTML and PDF formats. Other volumes will follow, each encompassing a macro release. Translations are under way.
Firebird is now Finalist on Sourceforge Community Awards , and is time to vote it
At the moment (well, for the last two years now) we only use FBLib.
The original author is nowhere to be found, so I started maintaining
or rather fixing the issues we deteced. For our latest FBLib, you can
get a update from tiOPF’s project on SourceForge.net.
Some of you reading this may remember that back when InterBase 6.0 was released on Solaris we ran into a fundamental problem on Solaris. It seems that since 1992 there has been an open bug documenting Solaris’ file descriptor problem: “32-bit stdio routines should support file descriptors >255.”
