Firebirdnews.org reached 100K visitors this year
And we are growing , if you have something to say related to firebird please contribute
We have to reach 500K pretty soon , then 1M visitors in the next year;)
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
dbdesc maintenance release (2.0.1)
from dbdesc blog: Even though you can connect with a Firebird 2.0 server to document a database, using the local (embedded) connection does not work because it needs the new fbembed.dll version. I’ve uploaded a maintenance release (2.0.1) to address this issue. Installer size has grown a little (~1 MB) because of the updated Firebird libraries.
FB2.0 New Interesting Feature
Cipto KH wrote in his blog:Today, I just know after reading my email from firebird-support that show the new feature of FB2.0
Sqlrelay – Getting Started Guide With Interbase/Firebird
SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux. Here is the Getting Started Guide With Firebird
ibpp changes towards version 3.0
Work is in progress toward a ibpp 3.0 codebase which will officially be tweaked for and supporting Firebird 2.0, while bringing new extensions too. You may peek at some very preliminary (and very subject to significant changes) information about the version 3.0.
Some of the really interesting stuff with Firebird 2.0 – blog of the day jclement
I’ve been playing with Firebird 2.0 a bit the last couple days. I had played with it in the past (version 1.5) and loved it. Version 2.0 is even better.
Turbo Delphi Interbase/Firebird Tutorial -by Felix John COLIBRI
abstract of the tutorial : developing database applications, using Turbo Delphi .Net and Interbase [ED: main ideas can be applied to firebird instead of interbase server – just use the FirebirdClient .Article does have very nice graphics with general architecture and that is why i linked to it]
How to use BLOB field in VB 6 with Firebird
Pabloj wrote in his blog: As per this post on Devshed forums I’m pasting here some sample code (taken from Mike Hillyer’s excellent “Accessing MySQL BLOB columns using Visual Basic 6“), hope it helps.
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 1 released
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.
better looking logo for firebird
Hellen wrote on the Firebird-general list:
We have a logo that serves us well, is simple, uncluttered and
distinctive, and looks great on a t-shirt. 🙂