FDBConvert
We have developed an utility for converting databases into new Firebird
2.5 format.
It is free and open source.
Andrei Kireyeu
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Bug in PHP 5.2.x and FB blobs
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.
Vote now for the best artwork
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).
Finalists for the 10th anniversary logo contest
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.
Just a few more left for voting
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!
Ten years of Firebird
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Milan Babuskov speaks about the 10th anniversary of Firebird in his blog.
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Time to vote for the best artwork!
We received 45 submissions for the 10th anniversary logo contest and now you can vote in your preferred artwork!
Help choosing the best artwork to celebrate the 10th Firebird anniversary.
Firebird Articles/Documentation Contest
New MindTheBird contest: 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).
Materials should be sent to admin@mindthebird.com
Attention contest participants!
Some authors submitted a grayscale image as the B/W version of the artwork. If you are one of them, please send a corrected version (B/W = black and white, only two colors, no grayscale) until tomorrow (15/March – 23:59 GMT) or the artwork (together with its full color pair) will be excluded from the contest.
Monday is the last day to submit your artwork
If you plan to participate in our FB 10th anniversary logo contest, you need to hurry up, since Monday (15/March) is the last day we will be accepting submissions. Artworks received after 23:59 (GMT) will not enter in the contest.
The voting to elect the best artwork will be done in two steps. In the first step, we will select the five best ranked artworks. In the second step, people will have to choose the best artwork among that five. The author of the winner artwork will receive the prize of USD 500!