GPRE/cobol patches on the way
Steve Boyd wrote on firebird-devel mailing list:
I am ready to submit my changes to GPRE to support RM/Cobol.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
NULL Guide – translation to Russian is available
.net embedded firebird on vista report
It’s a winform .net 2 business app that is very data centric and we tested initially with the embedded FireBird database driver which I had a gut feeling was going to be trouble, but absolutely no problems at all and every aspect is significantly faster than on the same computer with the same hardware exactly but different operating systems.
you can read the full experience on code project
DevCo sponsoring Prague conference
Today the sponsors of the Prague Firebird conference were announced.
The list includes the soon to be spun out “Developer Tool Group” at
Borland, a.k.a. DevCo.
ThumbsPlus expands database support with firebird
ThumbsPlus (the photo file manager) stores its thumbnails in a database. Until recently, it was limited to using the Microsoft Access JET format, which is limited to 2 gigs.
Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2-QuickStart.pdf
Lazarus and FPC will be on the Systems 2006
Lazarus and FPC developers will be on the Systems 2006 in Munich in October in hall A3 booth 542. They will try to be there on all 5 days. You can find more information about the Systems 2006 here.
[Ed:you can meet the team and talk about the lazarus ide, oopascal , firebird , open source , free beer ;)]
Patch for the Linux/PPC port – ready
Hi,
Finally, the patch is here. Thanks to Yavor Doganov, who provided me
with access to a PPC machine and was kind enough not to kick me out when
I filled its disks more than once 🙂
GUI for FireBird DB – blog of the day PaweÅ‚ Barut
Friend of mine, that is still working on xBase (Clipper), asked me to recommend him a good GUI tool for SQL database. At first I didn’t know what he exactly wanted. In fact he wanted a tool to retrive and manipulate data in FireBird DB. After trying few tools I recommended IB_SQL. It’s realy light weighted and intuitive.
Read more on PaweÅ‚’s blog
The FireBird Replication Engine – fibre 0.1.0 beta 2 released
Here is the fibre’s main intro page . Released files are located on sourceforge download page