#Twitter Firebird #Geek #Hero of the day
I started following him http://twitter.com/brentrowland because he is
the Ruby Firebird Extension maintaner also he writes some really
interesting tweets and blog posts
Month: September 2009
New Release: CakePHP 1.2.5
The CakePHP development team is happy to announce CakePHP 1.2.5.
1.2.5 is a bug fix release of the latest stable branch. Check the
changelog for all the changes.
Firebird in the cage (chroot) some notes on montavista linux
Someone is using firebird 2.1.3 inside a chroot cage , there were some issues but in the end he solved them
I’m trying to build a database in a chrooted MontaVista environment. My host OS is Fedora Linux 10. I chroot into the MV installation and try to build the database
News from Firebird Ruby / Ror driver – Firebird Extension 0.6.1 released
Firebird Extension Library for Ruby added new releses 0.6.1 and there are many changes and bug fixes
ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 18 released
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 18 has released. Visit here for more details.
Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
Embarcadero Change Manager Now Supports Firebird
Change Manager 5.1.1 is now released live with full support for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0. Check out a six minute YouTube introduction I recorded to get you folks up and running with Change Manager, and if you think it can be useful to you or your team you can download a 14 day evaluation. Change Manager compares and versions schema objects, compares, synchronizes, and masks database data, and helps manage database configurations. Version 5.1.1 also adds InterBase 2007 and 2009 in addition to our current support for Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 for LUW, and Oracle.
Firebird 2.1.3 released
The team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 2.1.3, with kits available for Linux and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. For notes about the release, click here.
New article: Graphs in the database, SQL meets social networks
Lorenzo wrote another impressive sql article :This morning a new article of yours truly has been published on the TechPortal. The title is Graph in the database: SQL meets social networks, and it’s a natural sequel to my talk aboutTrees in the database.
You will learn how to retrieve linked nodes, and how to answer some of the queries typical of social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, or recommendation systems (“You might also know/like”, “How you are connected to XY”, …).
More porting issues from BDE to dbExpress and Firebird – in Delphi
The porting odyssey continues with issues from jumping from BDE to Delphi .Also another episode is with Firebird date fields (part II)
Firebird in openSUSE Factory – Mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
Firebird is mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
“I want to inform our users that thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, we’ve got Firebird in openSUSE now. He took over the package we had in Build Service, rewrote spec file from scratch, fixed quite some errors and adjusted package in many ways. And as the result Firebird package was finally accepted yesterday (1st of September) into openSUSE Factory.