#Ruby Firebird extension fb-0.6.7 is released with better support for #windows
Ruby Firebird extension fb-0.6.7, with better support for non-English versions of Windows, is on rubygems.org and github.
Ruby Firebird extension fb-0.6.7, with better support for non-English versions of Windows, is on rubygems.org and github.
The winner artwork of the 10th anniversary of Firebird logo contest is:

Congratulations to Clebson Moreno, who will receive the prize of USD 500!
Thanks to all the participants who sent their artworks, and all the voters too!
In a few days we will provide the logo in different sizes so people can include it in their websites, etc.
We have developed an utility for converting databases into new Firebird
2.5 format.
It is free and open source.
Andrei Kireyeu
There’s a bug introduced between PHP 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 that affects
handling of Firebird blobs on 64bit machines. Having moved some of my servers to 64bit Slackware (Slamd64 to be more precise) I run into
this problem.
Read full post in Milan Babuskov blog.
The final round for choosing the best artwork for celebrating the 10th Firebird anniversary is now open!
Voting will be open until 24/March 29h59 (GMT).
Thanks for all who participated in the first round of the voting process for electing the best 10th anniversary celebration logo. Below are the five finalists, who will be in the final phase of the election process.
I wish to thanks all the participants for taking their time and efforts to create and submitting their arts, making this contest a real success!
Finalists:
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A new poll, with only the five finalists, will be put on-line in the next monday (22/March), and then people will finally choose what is the best logo, whose author will receive the prize of USD 500.
19/March is the deadline for participating in the first round of the voting process to elect the best commemorative logo for the FB 10th anniversary. Still did not vote? Do it now!
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Milan Babuskov speaks about the 10th anniversary of Firebird in his blog.
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| SQL Maestro Group is pleased to announce the release of Firebird Maestro v. 10.3, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
This version comes with support for some Firebird 2.5 new features, an update-or-insert data import mode, improved database profile management and some other useful things. Read full press-release.