Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Meik “Acyd Burn” Sievertsen, phpBB’s Development Team Leader has just announced that the bug tracker for phpBB3 née Olympus is now open
Supported DBMS
Though developed using MySQL, the wonders of a DBAL means phpBB Olympus already supports a wide number of databases:
* Firebird (firebird) – Firebird 1.5+/Interbase 7.1+
if you are using IBObjects as your connectivity suite, then you might be interested in the following:
We’ve uploaded a flash movie on how to build up an IBO application using Global DML Caching with the help of our product IB LogManager. Watch the wrap!
The .NET Provider for .NET 2.0 comes with ability to be used in Visual Studio in Database Explorer, etc. It’s very usefull, but you have to do some steps to add provider into it. Here you can find how to do this. If you’ll have some questions after, use the Firebird-net-provider list.
Darren wrote an tutorial about installing php5 and firebird 1.5.x on debian/ubuntu
Here is the full text on firebird-php mailing list
A new paper directed to all users who are meeting Firebird for the first time is now available online. Check it out and you may see that 2 minutes can change your whole vision about database servers!
Source for news fyracle.org (Contributed by Fikret Hasovic )
Devrace have published an article entitled “How to work with Blobs using FIBPlus” written by Sergey Vostrikov, translated by Marina Novikova.
There are two new InterBase presentations from the lastest Borland conference available for online watching:
bdntv.borland.com/devcon05/3166/3166.html
bdntv.borland.com/devcon05/3144/3144.html
First one is about new security features of InterBase.
Second one is about the usage of ADO.Net in Delphi 2006 with InterBase. Of course, almost all the info there can be applied to Firebird, since we have a Firebird .Net Provider!
Thanks Alexey for the links.
The second issue of “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” is available on the web now: http://ibdeveloper.com/issues/issue-2-oct-17-2005/.
It is available to read, discuss and provide links to your favorite articles. Don’t hesitate to comment articles and ask questions to magazine authors and editors.
