Firebird is 29th most active (all time) #SourceForge / #Geeknet project.
Saw it on Adriano’s tweet , and here is the link
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird 2.5 to be included #MEPIS #Linux
Seems to be a popular (12th place on DistroWatch ) distro based on Debian
Firebird-2.5 will be available this evening in the MEPIS 8.5 testing Community Repository.
#FirebirdConfig for #Firebird returns now with new Version and new wepages in English and Spanish
Here is the new version (0.2.0.39) for FirebirdConfig and there are new webpages for it in English and Spanish
Via twitter JhonnySuarezG
#FirebirdConfig for #Firebird in english http://is.gd/e6fdT #mindthebird
FbTransaction changes in Firebird #DotNet Provider to support tables locking
Firebird has a feature allowing you to specify tables you want to lock (read or write and exclusive/protected/shared) when starting transaction so now is proper implemented in .net provider snapshots
Connecting to a Firebird database from a VB.net 2008 web application
There’s a couple of posts related to connecting to a Firebird database from an asp.net 2008 web application that are helpful but not complete
Here is the detailed way with screenshots but is using ODBC .
Firebird’s Big Databases Presentation (in English)
At FDD’2010 Dmitry Kuzmenko has presented 2 presentations – the first one about approach to maintain big databases (50-400Gb) in the right way and the second is about restore speed tests.
Reflections on Perl and DBI from an Early Contributor
The name Buzz Moschetti probably isn’t familiar to you. Buzz was the author of the Perl 4 database for Interbase known as Interperl.
Back in those days Perl 5 was barely a twinkle in Larry’s eye and database interfaces for Perl 4 required building a custom perl binary.
http://blog.timbunce.org/2010/07/08/reflections-on-perl-and-dbi-from-an-early-contributor/
ps: Interabase & Firebird contributed stable api not only in the c and Delphi/Lazarus world but also in the Perl one with one of the first best drivers
Firebird 10th anniversary. How I came to it.
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.
Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 3 Kits Now Available
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.
Ultimate EFv4 CTP4 Code First full mapping example using Firebird
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.