Month: April 2010

gStat manual available

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If anyone is interested, I uploaded the Gstat manual to firebirdsql.org before Christmas (!) but my change to the docs page on the web site was either lost in the server crash or I forgot to do it!

Either way, there is a pdf and html version of the Gstat manual now available.

Cheers,
Norman.

Marco Cantu Webinar at MindTheBird

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Marco Cantu just blogged about his upcoming webinar, promoted by MindTheBird campaign:

To celebrate 10 years of the Firebird open source database and the coming release 2.5, the community behind the software has organized a promotional campaign called “Mind the Bird!“. IN case you don’t know, Firebird started when Borland decided to open source Interbase and later changed their mind. At that point the existing source code as used as a starting point for this open source project. Even if Firebird has a niche role in the open source database world, its technical qualities really shine and its license is fully open (unlike that of the most famous of the open source DBs, MySQL).

Webinar info: April 27, 2010, GMT+3 — Title: Delphi and Firebird, by Marco Cantu (in English)

MindtheBird articles contest – deadline is 16/April

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FB 2.5 features documentation contest

Write articles/documentation about any of the new Firebird 2.5 features and you can win a prize of USD 500 (1st place) or USD 200 (honourable mention prizes).

Rules:

  • Article format should be Word (doc/docx), Open Office or RTF.
  • It must contain minimum of 2.000 words.
  • It must be clear and easy to understand, and if possible, contain practical examples of code using the feature subject of the article.
  • It must be written in English (not generated by automated translation, please).
  • All the submitted articles needs to be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (cc by).
  • All articles will be published at MindTheBird site and at Scribd.com.

Deadline for articles is April 16, 2010. Contest will be judged by Firebird Core developers: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff. The authors of the best articles will get money as a prize (needs to have account in PayPal to receive the money).

Send your article to admin@mindthebird.com.

There is now support for the Firebird RDBMS in the most popular ORM for Perl

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There is now support for the Firebird RDBMS in the most popular ORM for
Perl, DBIx::Class, as of version 0.08121 .

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::InterBase
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::ODBC::Firebird

Using the ODBC driver with DBD::ODBC is recommended.

There is also support for DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader, which is used to
dump schema definitions, as of version 0.06000 .

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader

This ORM is often used with the Catalyst web framework:

http://www.catalystframework.org/

8/April – Ann Harrison’s Webinar

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April 8, 2010, 14-00 GMT Technological history of Firebird – 3 decades of innovations, by Ann W Harrison (in English). Connection details http://www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html

Click to link will open your installed LiveMeeting client, or if you don’t have this installed, will ask you to download and install it. Note that webinar will be available to join in 30 minutes before it’s beginning, otherwise LM client will say that “The meeting has not started yet…”.
Attendees will be muted, only presenter can speak. Attendees may ask questions using Q&A menu in Live Meeting Client.

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