Firebird wins fifth place on linuxjournal Readers’ Choice Awards 2010
Well now i noticed that there is a contest so here Firebird is mentioned and enters in the top 5 databases on Linux (Thanks to the Linux Journal readers)
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Using Firebird 2.5 official tar.gz installer on #Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10
Here is my guide to install Firebird from official tar.gz archive
Firebird 2.1.3 in #ubuntu 10.04 using the tar.gz installer
The guide is in Spanish but you can use google translation
Some Firebird tricks from a webmaster
Some Firebird Tricks for today
I’m a webmaster amongst other things for a significant web hosting provider.
I wanted to share some code and tricks I come across to pretend I’m knowledgeable, remember to not forget what I’ve learned and because I’m a little jealous of my colleague’s awesome blog.
Announcement :stable version of Firebird driver for the PHP Codeigniter Framework
Carlos wrote on firebird-php group : I’ve developed a stable version of a Firebird driver for the PHP Codeigniter Framework . Good feedback has been received from the Codeigniter community so far, and hope this could be useful for more developers working with PHP and Firebird.The sources are available at bitbucket here and any issues can be reported here
or at my blog here and for the English readers …
Thanx, live long and prosper…
Carlos García Trujillo
ps: seems that the driver is quite popular in such a small timeframe
I am happy that my driver for # firebird # codeigniter already are used by people from around the world in so little time:)
Now the benchmark results : seems that Firebird 2.5 compiled with clang++ is faster than g++
Now i have the clean build results and seems that clang++ is faster in one benchmark that i have tested Soon i will add more and test clang++ build with other benchmarks also some graphs will be added to the dry results 🙂
If you want to follow the clang++ build saga here is the tag on my blog
Firebird 2.5 is compiling successfully with Clang++ and production tests
The good news is that tests are running ok and soon i will show the numbers vs the g++ ones
Here are the tips on howto compile it on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu…)
Firebird project is worth more than Half a Billion $
According to ohloh widget calculator the project is worth $ 671,246,615
“This calculator estimates how much it would cost to hire a team to write this project from scratch.”
You can help promoting firebird by using the widget to your site and clicking “I Use this” button
New #FlameRobin 0.9.3 snapshots for Windows
Michael Hieke wrote on flamerobin-devel list :
I have posted SVN revision 2048 (nice round number) snapshot files for
Windows 32 and 64 bits, both setup and ZIP files.
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions.
Firebird downloads will hit 1 Million Downloads for this year
From the download statistics we can observe that Firebird will hit 1 Million downloads for this year pretty soon (a few days)