How to upload/download files from database using Free Pascal/Lazarus
After uploading files in the previous example into database, now we need to download thouse files:
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
New Arabic Lazarus Free Pascal Firebird book
After the first book now translated to English : Start programming using Object Pascal Language
I’ve released my second book about FreePascal/Lazarus/Object Pascal.
Book title is Second step with object pascal. In Arabic “الخطوة الثانية مع أوبجكت باسكال”
You can download this book from here http://code.sd/secondstep
The book also contains a lot of sample applications written in Lazarus.
Chapters:
1. Memory
2. Files management
3. Relational Databases : Firebird SQL
4. Web Applications
5. Socket programming
TurboBird Version 0.9.4 is released
Download links at the project’s page
New features:
Adding Grant permissionn in new table form. Small modifications to New table form. Compiling with Lazarus version 1.0
Firebird client for #node in pure Javascript is updated : 0.0.6
#Perl Firebird driver DBD-Firebird 1.11 is released with utf-8 and other bugfixes
On the behalf of the developers and contributors team, I’m pleased to announce that DBD::Firebird v1.11 , a DBI driver for the Firebird RDBMS server is released.
This release brings many changes and bugfixes .
- Test::Exception is required
- On Freebsd Threaded perl is required
- Test database to use UTF8 charset and enable UTF8 for the connection
- Fix CHAR lenght when using multi-byte character set Fixes #32 (RT#76506)
- Additional debug when finishing already finished statement
- Avoid double destroying of statement in auto-commit mode with DDL Fixes Github Issue #30 (RT#72946)
The development is done on GitHub and the mailing list is here
Thank you
SQLAlchemy has added support for the new fdb Python driver
SqlAlchemy Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper has added experimental dialect for the fdb python
driver and it needs testers
Results of the XAMPP 2012 survey
Thanks for thouse who voted with firebird to be included in the one of the most known apache distributions
The XAMPP 2012 survey is now over. Thank you to all who participated and helped us to get answers to our questions. Exactly 2674 individuals participated in the survey and responded with 97938 single answers in total.
It will take some time for us to go through the results, but if you’re curious about the raw results, please feel free to look at the linked PDF. Thank you all again and hopefully youll find this data as interesting as we do.
http://www.apachefriends.org/files/surveys/af-survey-2012-raw.pdf
#JDBC driver Jaybird 2.2.1 will be probably released next week
News via twitter Mark Rotteveel
Updating releasenotes for Jaybird 2.2.1, and if testing goes OK, I will probably release next week.
Also don’t forget
Do you use Jaybird in your applications? Fill out our survey: http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s36021.htm
Firebird Adapter for Rails 3.x is released :0.7.2
ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter 0.7.2 for Rails 3.x is released
(this version attempts to support migrations please test it)
Firebird Embedded on MacOSX
Based on a document written by Fulvio, a while ago, I finally spent time writing a make file that will automatically create an embedded version of Firebird that will run on MacOSX as a bundle. All you do is make a normal build of Firebird Classic and then use this make file to create the Firebird.app folder which is set up in a way that allows you to access a database via isql for example without the need for a full framework. The make file detailed below was written for Firebird 2.5.x