Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
There’s a bug introduced between PHP 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 that affects
handling of Firebird blobs on 64bit machines. Having moved some of my servers to 64bit Slackware (Slamd64 to be more precise) I run into
this problem.
Read full post in Milan Babuskov blog.
New MindTheBird contest: FB 2.5 features documentation contest
Write articles/documentation about any of the new Firebird 2.5 features and you can win a prize of USD 500 (1st place) or USD 200 (honourable mention prizes).
Rules:
Deadline for articles is April 16, 2010. Contest will be judged by Firebird Core developers: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff.
The authors of the best articles will get money as a prize (needs to have account in PayPal to receive the money).
Materials should be sent to admin@mindthebird.com
New presentation “Firebird Mythbusters” http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/firebird-mythbusters
Use it for competitive talks to crush the most annoying myths around
Firebird.
Gentle reminder – we still need localized versions of MindTheBird
presentation “Firebird Intro” and “Why Firebird”.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team
David Elias wrote on django-firebird-dev group
about his backend changes to make Django 1.2 work with Firebird
Leonardo posted in his blog about developing web applications using Delphi/FreePascal. The article uses Firebird 2.1 as data source.
Adriano posted in his blog about new Window functions introduced in Firebird 3.
[…]Now, new window-only functions has been introduced. I’ll separate them in two groups: ranking and navigational. Both set of functions can be used with/without partition/ordering, but them does not make much sense without ordering.[…]
Read the full post here.
Thomas Steinmaurer made available for public download the PDF of his article about Firebird 2.5, published previously in the Entwickler Magazin.
adrianosf twiteed
New blog post – Window Functions (part2) – cumulative aggregates – http://bit.ly/8sgfKU.
And here the Hebrew version of the article
Adriano has published in his blog some information about the implementation of the OVER function in Firebird 3. Really cool.
By the SQL specification, window functions are a kind of aggregation, but which does not “filter” the result set of a query. The aggregated data is mixed with the query result set. That sort of functions are used with the OVER clause. Users of Oracle also knows window functions as analytical functions[…]
