LINQ provider for Firebird added
DbLinq is THE LINQ provider that allows to use common databases with an API close to Linq to SQL
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird Gets the Eye of the Sphinx- full-text search engine
Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out.
It’s an great search engine used a lot in the LAMP world So now for example if you create and phpbb site with firebird back end , you can use sphinx for indexing and fast search. Another idea is : use it to index the whole database if you have large quantities of text and you need to search for keywords (an movie comments database for example)
The Firebird Project is now using FishEye – blog mention
Firebird mention on the Attlassian blog
The Firebird Project is already using JIRA for their Firebird RDBMS Issue Tracker. And now it’s even easier for developers to search, share and keep up to date with the Firebird Project using FishEye.
[ED: I like how the branches are presented in an good graphical way Also you can watch the changes for Firebird 2.5.x or the head for example ]
Firebird 2.1 included in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Firebird 2.1 (version 2.1.0) is included by default in the Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex that was released on 30 October. To use it you might need this guide and also there is an repository with version 2.1.1 (recommended)
Firebird, PHP, and CentOS 5
I (Dan Wilson) put together the procedure I used in order to get native and PDO firebird support working with PHP and CentOS 5. I was unsuccessful using the FAQ at http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq191/, and couldn’t find any other tricks on the web that worked. So, I compiled from a fedora source RPM as follows
Pure Python Firebird Library
On Firebird Python mailing list there is an interesting thread about rewriting Firebird Python Driver
Here is Pavel response
Building Firebird 2.5 from Debian git repository
These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others
Watching Firebird project trough the FishEye
Now you can watch Firebird project and changelog trough the Atlassian’s FishEye
Building Firebird in parallel with make on multicore systems
Damyan Ivanov committed patches for building Firebird 2.5 in parallel with make and -j option
This is good in case you have multicpu system
SuperServer builds now with -j8 for 3 minutes on an 4-core Phenom
compared to ~13 minutes without -j; both builds use the system
libedit and ICU.