The Firebird 2.1.1 packages are now in ppa for Ubuntu Dapper, Gutsy , Feisty , Hardy and Intrepid Ibex
The guide for installing is located in the ubuntu wiki
Also there is an released version in debian experimental
It’s an recomended update if you are still using firebird 2.1.0
Here is the tutorial with screenshots in French , but from images you can follow the lazarus wizzards and it should be ok in any language
To blob or not to blob… good question!
I guess if you develop data intensive applications dealing with large files at some point, you’ve thought about it at least once: should I put my data files inside the database or should I write them directly to disk?
Ok, so here’s my point:
storing files in Firebird is faster than writing the same files on the filesystem!
The list of open issues for Lazarus 0.9.26 is getting smaller by the day. Most are fixed. Some are re-targeted to 0.9.28, if we estimate it takes too long fix them now. Some are re-targeted to 1.0.0, if closer inspection turns out the bug is not a regression. Read more
The Free Pascal team is pleased to announce that version 2.2.2 is
released and available for download for all major platforms
A list of major changes is available Here.
We are proud to officially announce the release of the ZEOS DBO Library 6.6.3 – stable Read more
While on vacation I’ve been working on a pet-project that has been around for many years now. The service is a mobile device chat and is powered by Firebird and PHP.
There used to be lots of problems handling more than 400 simultaneous users, but after a DB upgrade to Firebird v2.5 Alpha 1 things really look different.
This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a simple blog application. We’ll be getting and installing Cake, creating and configuring a database, and creating enough application logic to list, add, edit, and delete blog posts.
What is needed : Firebird ,Ubuntu , Nginx and Php but it should work with any other server (apache, lighttpd)
This is an howto create your own ubuntu live cd with firebird/ubuntu and custom applications ,in guide ubuntu variation used was Xubuntu (is smaller and can be customized easier ) but it works for any hardy release
If you get this message in firebird.log
Fatal lock manager error: semaphores are exhausted, errno: 1
It means that you sould try to increase semaphores count in firebird.conf.
