IB Surgeon published a slide presentation about FB Scanner, a great product that intercepts the traffic between Firebird <-> Clients and allow you to see what is going on (works with any FB version).
Se você está no Brasil, não deixe de conferir o preço especial do FBScanner na loja on-line da FireBase.
People from IBSurgeon started a serie of posts pointing actual differences between Firebird and InterBase. Many people still thinks that Firebird is kind of “free InterBase”, but the two projects are now quite different.
Read the first part about 32 and 64 bits support.
DBA Software Inc., a leading provider of manufacturing (MRP) solutions for small business, announced that its decision two years ago to base its flagship product, DBA Manufacturing Next-Generation, on the Firebird™ open-source SQL database has been an unqualified success.
“MySQL gets all the publicity when it comes to open-source databases,” said Michael Hart, President of DBA Software, “but based on our experience, Firebird deserves a share of the limelight. MySQL is great for the Internet, but Firebird is perfectly suited for software applications such as our manufacturing package. It has a small footprint, is easy to install, requires no administration, and is fast, stable, and secure.”
Read more.
This toolkit dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to/from any of the following database/file systems: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Visual Foxpro, SQLite, FireBird, InterBase, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, CSV/Text and transfer any ODBC DSN data source to them. Features »
| Wed 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT | Bill Oliver Funds Another Week | Secretary |
| Bill Oliver, of SAS, who started a new tradition a few months ago, of donating a “one-week run” of cash for development, has done it again! Thanks, Bill! Any others interested in funding a week? A sum of around $2,100 to $2,300 will do it. | ||
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| Mon 21 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT | Annual General Meeting Announced | Vice-President |
| Our Annual General Meeting will start on Monday 12 October 2009 at Noon GMT. The Agenda is available and will be built up as reports and nominations come to hand.
It is TIME to step forward if you wish to indicate that you are available to serve on the new committee. Nominations will be required for the executive offices of President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. In addition, nominations may be made for non-executive positions. You can link through to the launch page for nominations from the Agenda. |
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| Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:06:00 GMT | Pavel Cisar Relinquishes Grant | Committee |
| Pavel Cisar, who has been using the grant allocation for development of QA tests for releases for some years, is relinquishing the grant from November forward. It doesn’t mean Pavel is giving up his task, though: he will carry on with his work. Philippe Makowski, who is the project’s other QA tester, already gave up his grant several months ago. | ||
Old news here.
IBSurgeon posted information about Firebird Optimizer including a presentation by Dmitry Yemanov. Check it out:
IBSurgeon posted slides of a great presentantion by Dmitry Yemanov about Firebird Scalability.
Note: You can also check a great FB Performance MasterClass video from Dmitry here.
Wings of Wind blog just posted the results of polls about Delphi 64bits and 4GB support. In the workarounds section, he mentions Firebird:
Use the 64-bit version of Firebird configured to keep the data in memory. It has the advantage that you have a full blown 64-bit SQL server (so, no AWE paging etc.) […]
Read the full post.
Now, if you have an account with Google, OpenID, Yahoo or Blogger, you can login and post comments to FirebirdNews without the need to create a local account! This simplifies a lot the login/account handling process, and I hope we will start to see much more comments to the posts!
To use the new feature, just click the “log in” link (at the SideBar “Meta” section) and choose what provider you wanna use.
If you already have a local FirebirdNews account, sign-in using your local username/password, edit your profile, and use the option to link your local account to any of the supported log-in providers, and you are done!
From Firebird Surgeon blog:
As you know, IBSurgeon was a publisher of “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” (or shortly IBDeveloper) in 2005 and 2006. There were 4 issues which attracted a lot of interest (up to 20000 of readers) but at that time there was no way to monetize it, so IBSurgeon decided to close the magazine as a redundant line of business.
Now we’ve put all issues of IBDeveloper to Scribd for easy reading and full text search indexing. You know, there are still “all times greatest hits” articles and materials (like one regarding locking in Firebird by Ann W. Harrison in Issue 2).
Read full post and check the magazines here.
