Month: September 2010

Firebird 2.5 will be released October 4, 2010

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Firebird 2.5 release date is set to October 4, 2010.

Please join Philippe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation, and Dmitry Yemanov, lead Firebird developer, at the Launch Webinar devoted to the 5th major release of Firebird. It will take place at October 4, 2010, at 13-00 GMT.

Link for Firebird 2.5 Webinar is
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/fbcon2010/join?id=46D79S&role=attend

If you have any questions regarding Firebird 2.5, please feel free to contact us:  launch@mindthebird.com

Little helper library for writing #UDFs for Firebird in #Lua

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Helper C library for writing UDFs for Firebird in Lua (as well as a small collection of useful UDFs). The Firebird UDF interface would hopefully be obsoleted in Firebird v3.0 and replaced with the new External Engine API. Until then, I hope you find this little library helpful. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.

http://code.google.com/p/firebird-lua-udfs/

For tips on how to write UDFs for Firebird yourself, read UdfWritingTips.

PS: If writing UDFs in Lua seems overkill, checkout the other UDF library written in freepascal.

Firebird to be included in #Mageia : a new GNU #Linux distribution based on #Mandriva Ashes

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Firebird history and Mageia story are related to each other  , here are the Philippe’s kind words

A new GNU Linux distribution is born : Mageia, a Mandriva Linux fork.

So why speak about this here ?

First, Firebird packages need a maintainer and as I am the one in Mandriva, I will do the same in Mageia

Second, this story remind me a little the Firebird story

Third I’m enthusiast to contribute (may be more than only Firebird related packages) to a such challenging adventure, and in this one, there are people that I really trust.

Long live Mageia : http://www.mageia.org/

Artur Anjos will be with Paulo Gaspar presenting The Firebird #Database talk at #codebits2010

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and here are the full  details of the talk  very impressive :The Firebird Database: simple, free and powerful

http://codebits.eu/intra/s/proposal/112

Artur Anjos, a Firebird Project member, finally registered himself on Codebits in order to share this presentation.
http://codebits.eu/arturanjos
Artur is with Firebird almost since the project started and has more than 8 years of production experience with it.

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