#Twitter Firebird #Geek #Hero of the day
I started following him http://twitter.com/brentrowland because he is
the Ruby Firebird Extension maintaner also he writes some really
interesting tweets and blog posts
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
New Release: CakePHP 1.2.5
The CakePHP development team is happy to announce CakePHP 1.2.5.
1.2.5 is a bug fix release of the latest stable branch. Check the
changelog for all the changes.
Firebird in the cage (chroot) some notes on montavista linux
Someone is using firebird 2.1.3 inside a chroot cage , there were some issues but in the end he solved them
I’m trying to build a database in a chrooted MontaVista environment. My host OS is Fedora Linux 10. I chroot into the MV installation and try to build the database
News from Firebird Ruby / Ror driver – Firebird Extension 0.6.1 released
Firebird Extension Library for Ruby added new releses 0.6.1 and there are many changes and bug fixes
New article: Graphs in the database, SQL meets social networks
Lorenzo wrote another impressive sql article :This morning a new article of yours truly has been published on the TechPortal. The title is Graph in the database: SQL meets social networks, and it’s a natural sequel to my talk aboutTrees in the database.
You will learn how to retrieve linked nodes, and how to answer some of the queries typical of social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, or recommendation systems (“You might also know/like”, “How you are connected to XY”, …).
More porting issues from BDE to dbExpress and Firebird – in Delphi
The porting odyssey continues with issues from jumping from BDE to Delphi .Also another episode is with Firebird date fields (part II)
Firebird in openSUSE Factory – Mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
Firebird is mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
“I want to inform our users that thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, we’ve got Firebird in openSUSE now. He took over the package we had in Build Service, rewrote spec file from scratch, fixed quite some errors and adjusted package in many ways. And as the result Firebird package was finally accepted yesterday (1st of September) into openSUSE Factory.
Firebird course in Czech
Based on numerous inquiries and wishes of our readers (dbsvet.cz), we decided to organize a one day dedicated to the Firebird database platform, which spells out why the Firebird is a good alternative for the development of new database applications.
One-day course about Firebird led by leading Czech expert (Jiri Cinkura) on this issue introduces the basic database features Firebird so that each of the participants recognized the advantages and disadvantages of this platform for developing real applications and testimonials.
Opendbx 1.4.3 with Firebird changes
You can read the full release log on Freshmeat
The Win32 platform code also received major improvements and is now able to build working Firebird and MySQL backends
#Firebird #Database is now officially included in #OpenSuse and the next #Suse
Good news for Firebird and OpenSuse users, Firebird package will be in official repository for new OpenSuse 11.2
For people wanting to test it, it is in the Factory repository
We should send a notice to distrowatch maintainer to add Firebird to the table of included packages for openSuse
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse