New version of FirebirdConfig
The new version of FirebirdConfig (0.2) has interesting features, including incremental search, you can see more information on the website, as well the video of its new features.
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!
5th FDD interviews for TV
Hardsoft TV was covering the last Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, and now interviews started to be put online in their site. You can check the first one here (it is in portuguese, but you can check the images of the local, attendees, speakers, etc). BTW, the link only works with Internet Explorer.
Update: The video is now available on Youtube:
Bergamo – the end
Yesterday was the final day of the Intl. Firebird Conference, in Bergamo. It was really a great time, and it is always good to meet with Firebird friends. I guess this personal contact is very important for the team, and the yearly conferences is the right place to put many of the core developers together and have lots of good conversation, beer wine and fun!
I would like to thanks P-Soft (Fabio) who organized this year conference. This is not an easy task, but everything was perfect. Thanks!
I hope to meet many of you again in the next year. Go Firebird!
Carlos H. Cantu
Pictures of Intl. Firebird Conference 2008
You can find some of my pictures of the conference in my Picasaweb album 😉
Looks like Marijn is blogging about it too.
I have blogged about it in my pesonal blog, but it is portuguese only, sorry 😉
Only 3 days for the International Firebird Conference
The Firebird International Conference 2008 will start at 25/September, in Bergamo, Italy.
What? Still didn’t register? Hurry up, there is still time!
Two weeks for FBConf 2008!
Subscribe now and meet several Firebird developers and gurus. You will have the chance of getting all that hard questions answered by the best people in the world 😉
Firebird x InterBase 2009
Paul Beach posted some comments about the SDTimes article “InterBase 2009 comes with multicore support” in his blog. Don’t forget to take a look at them.
What page size should I use?
It’s a common question with interesting background from developers . As I can suppose from IBSurgeon statistics, 99% of Firebird and InterBase developers use default page size: since the old ages it is 1024 bytes, and only for Firebird 2.0 it is changed to 4096 by default. There are 4 main things related with page size: indices depth, database cache size, records per page quantity and disk cluster size.
The shortest answer to this question is to use 4k, 8k or 16k page size. That’s it.
If you want to go a bit deeper, keep reading…
Marco Cantu talks about FBConference
Know your server
Article in Sinática blog talks about architectural differences between SQL Server and Firebird.