Looks like “Firebirdians” already have an official wine 😉 Firebird Legend, from Moldova, proved to be a really good wine, at last for the taste of some Firebird users (including myself).
Afterall, with this name, it could not be different! 🙂
People probably noticed that second alpha (or maybe first beta) of FB 2.5 is a bit delayed. The reason is that the Trace API feature is being “investigated”, and probably will be included in the next release. This is a nice feature first developed by RedSoft, allowing to “log” everything that is taking place in the Firebird server.
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the closing session of CodeRage (an intl on-line conference done by Embarcadero/CodeGear):
The Closing Keynote was given by Embarcadero CEO Wayne Williams and was very interesting[…]Two noticeable things. First, an official reference to Firebird as a database they want to invest to. IÂ guess better Delphi connectivity and DatabaseGear support might come to this database, but it is just my speculation.
The Firebird and the Tracker site is temporary off-line, due to a malicious attack at the weekend. People are working to put it online again asap.
Which of the following databases have you used most often THIS YEAR?
The above question is in the newest Evans Data survey, about Open Source tools, and Firebird is one of the listed choices. You can vote now.
IBSurgeon just released the newest version of its Firebird server monitoring tool, FBScanner, with several new features. Read more here. Brazilians can take a look here too.
Habanero is a free open source Enterprise Application Framework, supporting Object Relational Mapping (ORM). A set of class definitions describe how to persist data between object oriented code and a relational database backend. Firestarter is a modelling tool included with the Habanero download that manages the class definitions and allows you to reverse engineer the class definitions from an existing database.
Habanero currently supports data persistence to MySQL, Access, Sql Server, Oracle, SQLite, PostGreSQL, and more recently, Firebird. Due to popular demand, the Firestarter modeller has now been enhanced with the ability to reverse engineer from Firebird as well.
Read full history.
The combination of Cathedron and Firebird competed and won two times: this year and in 2004. During the 14 hour race a team of two people solve a realistic business problem.
The productivity during the race is about 10 minutes per function point. In large software companies the best projects require 6 to 10 hours per function point. This implies a 60 times higher productivity during the race. When the extreme conditions of the race are normalized and you triple the amount of time to fine tune and test the deliverables, the productivity is still 5 to 10 times higher.
The combination of Cathedron and Firebird allowed the team to rapidly create and change the basic application and the underlying database. During the 14 hour race over 70 small modifications where made to a database containing valuable test data! 99% of those changes were handled by Cathedron simply by changing the data model.
Cathedron can be downloaded from www.cathedron.com and is free for personal and educational use. Although the tool and documentation are still under development, the core features such as information/data modeling, (default) screen generation and the embedded Pascal scripts have been used in production environments for over 8 years.
You can find new beta builds of the ODBC 2.0 driver here.
Note: If you are using Firefox, remember to scroll down the page opened by the above link or you will not find the information.
Dmitry Kuzmenko posted the continuation of his first post about Firebird in his blog. Check it out.
