#Ruby Firebird extension fb-0.6.7 is released with better support for #windows
Ruby Firebird extension fb-0.6.7, with better support for non-English versions of Windows, is on rubygems.org and github.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Delphi, Firebird, FibPlus – Introduction series
Sinática Monitor 2.2 Beta for Firebird
A beta version of 2.2 release is available for download.
You are welcome to test it and send your feedback.
Take care of your firebird databases with FBClone 2.0
Firebird Backend working with #Django 1.2
David Elias wrote on django-firebird-dev group
about his backend changes to make Django 1.2 work with Firebird
Firebird News just got over 500000 total visitors
Firebird News just got over 500000 total visitors see it in the right side box, we expecting the other half Million this year 🙂
Firebird History in 9 minutes video
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes created a code_swarm of the firebird2 tree.
Cloning Firebird Databases
Repairing broken Firebird database can be sometimes a bit difficult. The official tools (gfix and gbak) not always can help you so you will have to find ways to transfer data from broken database into another fresh and clean one.
There are some tools that can help you
Kinterbasdb 3.3.0 (#Python Driver) included in #Debian and #Ubuntu
Kinterbasdb 3.3.0 stable driver is included in Debian Squeeze (Testing) and Sid (Unstable)
Update : is now included in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
You can install it by a simple:
sudo apt-get install python-kinterbasdb
Howto: two Firebirds on one #Linux #Ubuntu box
Igor Wawrzyniak wrote on his blog :
Don’t know if anyone ever needs such a crazy setup, but here it goes. I needed to run a software that requires Firebird 2.x. Nothing special, it’s available in my distribution (Ubuntu). I also had to run another app that needs Firebird 1.5. That’s where it started to get complicated