FB start guide in Hebrew
Ido Kanenr has released a Firebird Start Guide in Hebrew language. More information here.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guides to Firebird 3, 4 and 5. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
6th Firebird Developers Day – site is online
In the 6th edition of the FDD conference, we will have the presence of Vlad Horsun (thanks IBSurgeon) and Dmitry Kuzmenko, as international speakers, together with a great set of speakers from the Brazilian community. Attendees can register online now.
FDD is an annual conference that takes place in Brazil, organized by FireBase, and has an average of 500-600 attendees each edition.
Sun, Oracle and MySQL – post at Marco Cantu’s blog mentions Firebird
The other options is that open source developers will put their eyes into other open source databases, maybe those with less restrictive licences (Firebird come to mind, but I’m biased here).
Read the full post.
Firebird aquires NimbusDB
The aquisition was funded by Firebird Foundation. Firebird 2.1.3 will include cloud database features merged from NimbusDB, that was being developed by Jim Starkey.
In the other side, Jim will not join the project, and plans to spend the money buying a bigger boat and sail around the world for the next 5 years.
Firebird to be (officially) supported in next Delphi version
Signals shows that Firebird will be officially supported in the next version of Delphi. That’s what Anders Ohlsson says, as published in Marco Cantu blog:
He said that in the next version of Delphi they are looking forward to supporting (among other features) Firebird, touch-based UI (multi-platform touch engine), 64bit, and cloud computing.
Firebird 2.1.2 released
From Firebirdsql.org:
Firebird 2.1.2 is Released
The Firebird team is pleased to announce the sub-release Firebird 2.1.2 for production. Kits for Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel and PowerPC are making their way to the mirror sites today. Enjoy!
N.B. The Classic package for MacOSX PPC will be delayed slightly.
Using FB with VB.Net
Bernardo Giovani just released a simple article (in Italian) about using Firebird with VB.Net.
Aggregate tables with Firebird
Thomas Steinmaurer’s article (in english) about using aggregate tables with Firebird is now available for download.
IBO Status update from Jason
Posted in the IBO Support list:
I am glad to report I am now able to make IBO development my full time effort so the progress with IBO should start moving at a very accellerated pace. I’ve been through a total living hell for the past year but I am absolutely determined to get things back in order and its looking like I am finally there. I will very soon have a BETA version of D2009 to test. The changes made are very wide sweeping. This has been a tremendous amount of work and it is going to take a while yet before it is finished. Almost every aspect of IBO has been hit by these changes. But, it will be good to finally make this transition into Unicode. I’m not complaining.
Thanks for everyone’s patience thus far.
Jason Wharton
IBUtils goes OPEN SOURCE
Posted in Firebird-Tools list:
Hi,
Maybe you know the freeware visual tool IBUtils for Interbase/Firebird (http://www.unipals.cz/ibutils/ibutils.htm). The application IBUtils is designed for simlifying database design for Interbase and Firebird databases by showing the links between the tables in your database visually, like some CASE tools do. Every change to the tables in your database made by other tools can be refreshed by one mouse click. You can create tables and tables relations too. Changes to database are logged into a file.It is my personal project and I developed it within my free time. The last version was released 3 years ago (quite a long time :)) because I am engaged in other projects and do not have time to do anything with IBUtils. So I definitely decided to OPEN THE SOURCES so that anybody can proceed the development of this tool or include it in his/her software. Now I know that I should have done it earlier.
I do not have experience with open source development so I do not know, what is the best way to open the sources of IBUtils. Should I create a project at SourceForge? What licence to use – GPL, LGPL or some other?
There is on thing important to say: I do not want to be engaged in the IBUtils development due to lack of time. I can help only a little to explain some piece of code if needed. So it would the best if there was somebody, who can take over the leadership of this project.
IBUtils uses pure access to Interbase/Firebird with the excellent IB Objects, without need to use BDE by Jason Wharton. IB Objects is not freeware, so this part should be changed to use some other connectivity, but this could be done easily.
Anybody interested?
aleskahanek <akahanek at seznam.cz>