Posted By Adriano dos Santos Fernandes:
July 31th, 2010. Today Firebird completes its 10th anniversary. The Firebird website has a set of history documents about how that started. It’s something you must read if you’re interested in Firebird.
I’m sometimes asked about how I became one of its team members. So I’m going to tell something about this.
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the third release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. The 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, along with 32-bit kits for Windows and 64-bit for the MacOSX/Darwin Intel platform. The missing kits for 64-bit Windows and 32-bit MacOSX are still in QA and will follow shortly.
Please test well and report any bugs directly to the firebird-devel list (click HERE if you are not subscribed). Please do not post questions about this pre-release version to the firebird-support list.
Jiří {x2} Činčura created an example with Entity Framework 4 CTP4
Let’s model some kind of simple library and try to use there couple of Entity Framework’s features. And to make things worse, try to do it with ADO.NET provider for Firebird.Good news is I succeeded. My database structure was my first and non-touchable object (to be honest the first was the idea what to create and how to represent it in database) together with the idea of objects.
David Elias created new branch for Django 1.2 and Maximiliano Robaina tested it , there is still work left to do but the results are good
If you want to test recent commits on Linux or Windows you can download from the snapshots area
Backup location for linux Builds (64-bit only) are available from Sergey Mereutsa’s spaceship
http://www.dqteam.com/fb2/ for 2.1 and
http://www.dqteam.com/fb2/HEAD/ for 2.5 just now 🙂
Here is howto investigate the firebird network traffic with the help of two linux tools strace and tcpdump
Michael posted new Flamerobin snapshots and announced on the devel list
I have posted new FlameRobin snapshots, SVN revision 1917, for Windows
32 and 64 bit, both installers and ZIP files.
New version for flamerobin 0.9.3 is now in Debian experimental for testing
The list of changes can be seen in the testing needed thread from above or in the changelog list
I have created a feature request in Arch Linux to include Firebird both as a stand alone package and also with added support in PHP and PHP-PDO.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19564
Can you please vote for this bug request ?
Thanks,
Ido
