Slides from FDD talks
The new edition of the Brazilian DB FreeMagazine was released today and contains all the slides from the 4th Firebird Developers Day conference. Download is free.
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Firebird – double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!
From InfoWorld:
SourceForge unveils the winners of the ‘open-source Oscars’
“…The Firebird relational database was another double winner, being voted both best project for the enterprise and the project providing the best user support.”
Congratulations for all who made this possible: The Firebird Project and all the people who voted!
Read full article here.
KDE Firebird RBDMS Administration Tool
This is one of the many open source database projects for Firebird RDBMS administration tools on Linux. Like many of its precedents its source code can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/kfb
Kfb is programmed with KDevelop (C++ and Qt). It is fully GUI and based mainly on IBPP, another open source project of C++ interface to Firebird API’s. Kfb also includes some other libraries, ncrypt and fbcopy, and all of them are open source projects and all can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net
I have tried to achieve the goal of stability, speed and security in this project, while still keeping it easy to operate and include as many functions as possible. Kfb opeartes on FB 1.5 and 2.0 SS server. Some efforts are to make this program more handy for the daily operations.
More information here.
5th Firebird Conference – Call for papers
Dear Firebird Users,
The Call for Papers for the 2007 Firebird Conference is now officially open. We encourage every Firebird user with something to say to to send us your proposals for great sessions. You will be able to participate as a speaker at the Firebird Conference in the following ways:
- Regular session: present a 30 or 60 minute session about a technical or business topic related to Firebird
- Digital Session: create a PDF or Powerpoint session for the conference website and dvd about a technical or business topic related to Firebird
The submission deadline: regular sessions Aug 15th 2007, digital sessions Oct 1st 2007. Please use this url to submit your sessions: http://www.firebird-conference.com/c4p/
5th Firebird Conference will be held from 18th-20th Oct 2007 in Hamburg, Germany.
For questions please contact info@h-k.de (english or german language)
5th Firebird Conference is organised by HK-Software in cooperation with Firebird Foundation.
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Best Regards
Holger Klemt
New poll on-line
Please vote in our new poll present in the sidebar of the FirebirdNews main page. Voting is simple, quick and easy!
Evans Data Survey mentions Firebird
A new survey from Evans Data mentions Firebird:
Which Open Source databases have you used most often THIS YEAR?
Time to vote for you preferred database server 🙂
Report of the 4th Firebird Developers Day
The report for the 4th FDD edition is now on-line in portuguese and english. You can check some pictures of the conference.
Firebird Developers Day – tomorrow – in Brazil
Tomorrow the 4th edition of Firebird Developers Day will happen in Brazil, with the presence of almost 600 people, and many international speakers. See all information about the conference at the official site: www.FirebirdDevelopersDay.com.br
Running two or more versions of Firebird simultaneously under Windows
Paul Reeves guide for running two or more versions of Firebird server in the same machine is now available here.
“Firebird does not currently support running multiple instances as Windows services. This fetaure will come with V2.1. However, secondary instances may be run as applications. Here is how to proceed…”
Another Major Sponsor: Red Soft Corporation
From Firebird Foundation blog:
Today Vadim Schchepinov, CEO of Red Soft Corporation, a company developing applications over Firebird databases for companies and government agencies in Russia, announced that his company would commit to sponsorship at Silver band or higher, with an indication of intent to assist the Foundation over any cash flow problems that might arise in the current year. We will try to provide more detail after the AGM and before the start of the general meeting next month to discuss Firebird’s future management and funding arrangements.