Hi people,
Fabio has sent me the PDF version of Frank Ingermann’s conference session. You can find it at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Writing-Firebird–Docs-Intro.pdf
or via the Firebird Documentation Index –> Manuals for Firebird Docwriters
Dmitry Yemanov did a session about Firebirds future, he included several slides about the almost-beta Firebird 2.5, an Alpha build is currently available via Firebirds website.
He reached back from Italy and now you can read his blog and see his album
Also seems that there are some albums on the main site firebirdconference.net
I think is the best conference I have ever atended and with people from various contries , Some of them
from :Japan , Brazil , South Africa , France, Russia , Holland, Germany and even Dominican Republic. I didn’t listed all of the contries but you can get the picture about the diversity.
Here you can read my blog post about the conference – it will be updated with pictures and more info soon
http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/09/firebird-conference-2008-i-think-is.html
I spent the end of the last week at the Firebird Conference 2008 in Bergamo, giving talks on using Delphi with the open source database server.[Read more on the first link]
This is my first released backup script for Firebird RDBMS. It automagically search for all Firebird databases from a central directory, uses gfix to validate them, then backup + gzip them to a central backup directory keeping only 5 last successful backups.
It may be used as a cron script to automate Firebird databases backup.
I’ve uploaded PDF, HTML and multi-HTML versions of the 2.0 LangRef Update to
http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd20.html Read more
23.09.2008 – A new release is out. It brings new features like Firebird 2.1 support, tabbed browsing, etc. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and source code package are available for download. Here are the details.
Article submitted by Anton Kavalenka.
Firebird SQL server is popular because it is free, open, lightweight and secure. Firebird is based on the Interbase SQL server, and can be accessed by the same client libraries.
FlameRobin is a X-platform GUI application that makes the life of Firebird/Interbase admins easier. It’s a very light-weight solution (implemented with wxWidgets) as opposed to Tora, which tries to be universal, but is very huge and takes a while to load. FlameRobin starts almost instantly, but being lightweight doesn’t mean to be poor in features. Some of them are: Read more
