Various Firebird Database frontends
Article By Bernie:
My usual front end is IBOConsole. Never knew there were others – IBAccess, Knoda (KDE only), ibWebAdmin and Flamerobin. Thanks to this article here – Firebird Database Configuration in debian.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
FlameRobin 0.7.2 released
Windows (setup & zip), Linux (gtk1 &. gtk2), Mac OS X and source packages are available for download. Read more here, changelog included
Download Sizes: Firebird vs Sqlserver
[ED:blog of the day is Ben Ward’s post about firebird vs sqlserver download sizes/requirements]
Originally, my Desktop Search application (‘Oak’) was to use a Microsoft SQL Server Express database backend. Full of glorious developer friendly features (like .NET integration) it is a powerhouse of a database. Read more
goCRM product released – Free now
goCRM had its initial release today, and it could be interesting to some as we’re giving away free, yes free, software, that could be useful to someone running a small business.
Technology
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Open source storms database charts
Open source databases are showing the highest growth rate in the database market, according to a new study by analyst firm Gartner.
Why we all sell code with bugs – firebird mentioned
[Quoting from this article where firebird is mentioned http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1781895,00.html]
For instance, our product, Vault, stores all data using Microsoft SQL Server. Some people don’t like this. We’ve been asked to port the back end to Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Firebird. This issue is in our bug database as item 6740. The four questions would look like this: Read more
Firebird in china
From the Site of the day department here is the firebird dedicated site in china www.firebird.net.cn/
[Ed : you will need the babel fish maybe ]
Two chapters from Using Firebird guide ready for contributors review
Warning : they are for documentation contributors not for distribution or end users (If you spot mistakes contact the firebird-doc team ) Read more
Firebird 2.0 rc2 from source howto (ubuntu dapper drake)
This was tested on the Ubuntu Dapper Drake (that will be released this summer)
I assume you have installed the g++ compiler (with apt-get or synaptic)
download the Firebird 2.0 RC 2 kit from the nearest mirror
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Lucene.Net needs committers ( call for help )
As you know from pervious article Lucene.net can be used with firebird, if you know some C# or have documentation fixes (spell checking etc) please give an hand to help the project
As you may know, I am currently the only developer working on it. I need and welcome help to finish it off. Also,
Lucene.Net needs committers. To become a committer on ASF, you can start by reading: http://incubator.apache.org/learn/newcommitters.html So please, if you want to see Lucene.Net move to the next stage and even graduate from incubation, do your part; you can start by looking at the current code and comment on those lines with “Aroush” in them.