Please Join the New Google Plus Firebird Community
Google Plus launched Communities and we created one for Firebird , Please Join in the conversation
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
New Package Firebird (2.5.2.26539.0) released for Centos and RedHat Linux
New firebird packages are released for CentOS 6 (RHEL 6) in the EPEL repository with the following Changelog :
added patch from upstream to fix Firebird CORE-4011 and RH #886578
Firebird-Mezzanine = Firebird and Django’s WordPress alternative : Mezzanine
Here are my install instructions on Ubuntu/Debian for Mezzanine CMS
First install Firebird 2.5.2 , Then install django and fdb driver
sudo pip install djangosudo pip install fdbsudo pip install mezzanine
Install django-firebird driver like is described on the github page
Create new mezzanine project:
mezzanine-project firebird-mezzaninecd firebird-mezzanine
create empty database from isql-fb / flamerobin
isql-fb
SQL> create database “localhost:/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/firebird-mezzanine.fdb” user ‘SYSDBA’ password ‘masterkey’;
SQL> quit;
create local config for firebird
python manage.py createdbpython manage.py runserver
look at the first results after the wordpress import (i was so impressed that i have removed the old wordpress.com account)
next step : blogspot import is in progress
Firebird used at univexsoftware.com and they start using SuperClassic
This week we released our December update for our back office and point of sale software. In addition to statement emailing that I wrote about last week, we are now exploiting features in the newer Firebird database engine that we use.
New Firebird repository checkout URL (Project moved to Allura platform)
New Firebird repository is imported into the New Allura platform , here is checkout URL and you can browse the other branches
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/firebird/code/trunk firebird-code
New Perl Project: Plugin for monitoring FirebirdSQL in Nagios
New Plugin for monitoring FirebirdSQL database status in Nagios is released.
PyFirebirdSQL 0.7.1 pure Python driver is released with many fixes
The ChangeLog includes many patches:
Here is the download page.
You can also use pip to install/upgrade the package
sudo pip install firebirdsql
For full list of commits consult the github page
ps: pyFirebirdSQL is pure python so it can work without any other so/dll installed and it can be used for example in places where there is no Firebird client installed (think of an android/ios python script)
Firebird default character set
Question and answer of the week is related to Firebird default character set by Mark Rotteveel on Stack Overflow
Django Firebird updates – now with support for introspection ready for Django 1.5 final
Hi folks,
I just updated the google code version with fixes in introspection. It was backported from github version [1]
So, I encourage to try both but mainly the version at github with the new fdb driver [2].
In that way, we can have our new django-firebird adapter almost stable for release along with the final release of django 1.5.
[1] https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb
Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0.4 is released with many bugfixes
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of: Lazarus 1.0.4
This is a bug fix release. Here is the list of changes.
The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page
Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0.4″ directory.