Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird V2.1.4 packages released for Fedora 13 and 14 and for RHEL4 and 5 and other derivatives (Centos, Scientific Linux)
From Philippe Makowski: Firebird V2.1.4 packages for Fedora 13 and 14 and for RHEL4 and 5 and other derivatives (Centos, Scientific Linux) have been pushed into Fedora and Epel repositories. Packages for Mandriva will be avilable soon.
Entity Framework v4.1 Code First and Firebird
Jiří Činčura wrote on his blog : I’m using Entity Framework’s 4.1 (currently in CTP stage) Code First with Firebird. If you’re a bit lazy and you’re specifying only required minimum on information to run the mapping, you might quickly face one problem.
Someone wants to buy a Firebird book in Japan
That would be the tweet of the day :
Firebird thorough introduction to http://bit.ly/fThQ97 tried to buy. But a little worried because the mail and logistics, in order that I wanted to be bad timing to worry too much.
Initial review of Firebird 3 – Presentation
Firebird 3.0 Initial Review and Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/initial-review-of-firebird-3
In this presentation Dmitry Yemanov, lead architect of Firebird Project, introduces the key advantages of upcoming major release of Firebird 3.
Meta.com.au Goes Bitweaver and Firebird
Meta has finally converted to Bitweaver and Firebird for website CMS and datastore respectively.
meta has used Joomla for several years to deliver corporate website information and client access to private areas and downloads. But finally Bitweaver has delivered a comprehensive CMS and web application framework backed by Firebird. We regard this as a major advancement in support of Firebird, Bitweaver and the opensource software movement.
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Read more of my journey here Firebird Bitweaver Windows and PHP
And find out some of the website feature which can make your use of this resource more appealing
Generate Custom Insert SQL statements from a csv file
Question of the day : I need to import a csv file into Firebird and I’ve spent a couple of hours trying out some tools and none fit my needs.
#php pdo on rpm based #linux distros : Mandriva , RedHat , Centos
Under Fedora and derivative (including Centos and RHEL) :
yum install php-interbase
under Mageia and Mandriva
urpmi php-pdo_firebird
that’s all
see :
http://sophie.zarb.org/search?search=pdo_firebird.so&distribution=&type=byfile&d\
eptype=P
php5 and firebird pdo driver on #ubuntu / #debian
Here is the guide updated to current ubuntu releases also one thing to notice is php pdo is now core module and should not be installed from pecl repository
New hotfixes available for Delphi , C++Builder and RAD Studio XE
This fix corrects the error caused when reading an ftMemo field twice using the Firebird dbExpress driver.