What is the language most used in your Firebird apps?
Two years ago we asked the same question. Now it is time to repeat it and see if (and how) the scenary changed. You just need to go to the mainpage of FirebirdNews and vote. Your answer will help us to find what are the major languages being used to code applications that uses Firebird as the DB engine.
DBMaster is a tool for working with multiple database servers and multiple databases. Sometimes it is much easier to work using a set of commands than working with wizards. DBMaster has a command language which can be used for copying Tables, Views, etc from one database to another.
This is the last week for registering to the 5th Firebird Developers Day, to be held in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil, in 19/July. Right now, the capacity is almost full (95%). More information here.
The Firebird Documentation Project coordinator (Paul Vinkenoog) is pleased to announce that the first volume of the Firebird Language Reference Update series, for Firebird 1.0.x and 1.5.x, is now available in both HTML and PDF formats. Other volumes will follow, each encompassing a macro release. Translations are under way.
The Darwin Race of Languages contest is now running! You can participate and contribute with Firebird community at the same time, choosing to build a gBak GUI frontend tool (check more details here).
Today, Firebird Developers Day conference passed the “line” of 500 confirmed attendees, and the numbers is still growing every day. Online subscriptions go up to 10/July.
The Darwin Race of Languages is a “competition” started by Bart Roozendaal to check what programming language is better. It seems that they will choose a kind of application that need to be developed, and participants will use the language of their choice to code it, and in the end, they will choose which one is better.
Anyway, the reason I’m posting this here is that among the topics being discussed to decide what kind of application will be developed, there is a Firebird tool.
A new release of Jaybird is available – 2.1.5. It fixes a bug introduced in 2.1.4 when events did not work on Linux. Please upgrade your installations to this one.
The conference will be in Bergamo (Italy), 25-26-27/September. You can get all information here. Register sooner to get earlybird discount.
If I end up going with Firebird, then I’ll most likely be using the IBObjects components. I’ve used these before at a customer’s site and have been impressed at the genuine speed that results.
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