Posts about Morfik mentions Firebird
The post “A Patent On An Ajax Generator? Ah, That Could Be Important” in InformationWeek Weblog talks about Morfik and mentions Firebird.
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!
Finding a good password
I found an interesting password generation (online) tool that even says how much time it will take for people break the generated password 🙂 It may help to define good passwords for Firebird users accounts.
Firebird 2.1 Alpha 1 Ready for Field Testing
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that the first Alpha builds of Firebird V.2.1 are ready for testing. Binary and source kits for Linux and and some Win64 and Win32 kits should start appearing at the Sourceforge mirrors today. For a summary of new features and bug fixes, see HERE.
CopyCat version 2.0 released
After a long delay, Microtec is pleased to announce the release of the long-awaited CopyCat version 2.0!
CopyCat is a set of Interbase/Firebird replication components for Delphi and C++Builder. Using CopyCat, you can easily build applications comprising advanced database replication capabilities, which can be deployed royalty-free.
For more information about this new release, click here.
General information about CopyCat : http://www.microtec.fr/copycat
Aproximated record count
Ivan Prenosil posted in Firebird support list an interesting way to retrieve the aproximated record count in a table, without using the “slow” select count(*). See the code:
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Morfik 07 released
Morfik 07 was release today. It uses Firebird as the default database. Check it out, it is a great tool for generating web applications that also works in “standalone” mode with no code changes.
PHP Interbase Extension Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
PHP Interbase Extension Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
BugTraq ID: 22976
Remote: Yes
Date Published: 2007-03-15
Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22976
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SQL Connect 2007
If you live in Brazil, DB FreeMagazine is organizing the first SQL Connect conference, devoted to all the major database technologies. There will be talks about Replication, RDBMS (including Firebird), data access methods, etc. The conference is scheduled to 31/March, in Piracicaba-SP.
Take a look at the conference site and subscribe now to get discount!
FB Conference 2006 videos
Dimitri Zaharov published all his videos from FB 2006 conference in DivX format You can download them here.
[Note] He wasn’t able to record all the presentations, so you will not find all of them for download. In this case, you can try IBExpert Live.
Delphi for PHP supports Firebird
David I just posted in his blog that the new Delphi for PHP supports Firebird, along with many other databases.