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. Read more
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
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. Read more
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
Read more
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
GUI for FireBird DB – blog of the day Paweł 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 Paweł’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
Firebird SuperServer versus Classic Architecture – errata
This article was written about InterBase by Borland in the mid-1990’s. The factual description still applies to Classic and SuperServer in Firebird in 2006, but the implications related to project direction and reliability do not apply to Firebird. The Firebird project fully supports the Classic architecture on all platforms and recommends its use in multi-processor environments.
Damyan Ivanov restarted the linux powerpc port
You can watch the powerpc porting thread on sf.net devel mailing list
UPDATE:firebird started on powerpc (make passed create_db stage so first database was correctly created on that platform) Read more
firebird/flamerobin included in the OSSwin list
Please also report broken links to the osswin-users mailinglist, and if you really like this list and want to keep me motivated, then just send me something from my wishlist or my wanted computerparts list 🙂
Cheers,Bart Vandewoestyne