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News from the Firebird developers.

Firebird SQL web-site has new look and feel: www.firebirdsql.org

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Visit new http://firebirdsql.org and and enjoy new abilities: subscribe to Newsletter, Twitter, Facebook

Please report any missings , wishes to firebird-website list or rush the bugs in the firebird tracker (The WEB component)

ps:This one of the steps completed into attracting more developers on using Firebird and looking more modern and trendy
Also if you find some some pages from the old site that are not integrated yet , here is the url http://web.firebirdsql.org/

Status of PHP PDO_Firebird as of May 2011

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Working both with Firebird SQL and PDO (but not yet at the same time) I am interested in the combination of both.
According to the documentation the extension is still in experimental status, but I was still curious about how far it has progressed. I decided to redo the experiments Lorenzo Alberton did in an article in 2006.

I performed these tests on PHP Version 5.3.6 with Firebird 2.5 on a Windows 7 machine.

http://www.gn0s1s.nl/?p=108

 

Firebird nagios plugin written in #python

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At work we use a lot of Firebird databases, and so far our system admins checked the availability of a Firebird Database by simply trying to connect via telnet to the port 3050 and see if they would get a response. With this kind of check you can’t really determine if the database is really up and running,

Therefore they asked me if I could write a plugin for nagios which would do a real check to ensure that the Databases are up and running, here is my result.

I chose to write the plugin in python, due it’s simplicity, and because I already wrote some script using the python-kinterbasdb extension

New Flamerobin snapshot revision 2100 in #debian unstable

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The main change is that now it requires firebird2.5-dev instead of firebird3.0 headers and decided that is better to  have a flamerobin 0.9.3 in the distros released for the next 1-2 years with a stable firebird 2.5.x and add firebird 3.0 requirement when is ready and stable ~1-2 years
Changelog:
* New upstream SVN snapshot : revision 2100
* Uploaded to unstable
* Stop using system-wide ibase.h.Unstable has no fb3.0 so system-wide ibase.h has no boolean defines,which are used by FR and were ported to IBPP’s embedded copy of ibase.h
* build-depend on firebird2.5-dev instead of firebird-dev(firebird-dev is only in experimental)

You can download and install the package directly from debian sid (tested and works on ubuntu natty too )
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin
Also for ubuntu the install guide is now updated

Firebird PHP Generator 11.4 released

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Firebird PHP Generator SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird PHP Generator 11.4, a frontend to generate feature-rich CRUD web applications for your Firebird database. The software comes in both Freeware and Professional editions.

New release introduces support for multi-level auto-complete editors, editing data within modal dialogs, improved client side validation and a lot of other useful things. There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc).

Read full press-release.

Firebird on Linux and ICU > 4.2

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Hi,

there was a bug in Firebird that did not handle well icu > 4.2 see (http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3447)

2.1.4 and 2.5.0 packages in distributions were affected (Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Mageia) because they are using icu 4.4

Adriano fixed it and in these various distro updates are on the way

I know that some of you are using Centos 5.
The problem with Centos 5, is that you can’t have Firebird 2.5 from EPEL
repository. Centos 6 will give you the possibility to have Firebird 2.5 from EPEL6 repository, but seems that Centos6 take a long time to come.
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25878
http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/6/AuditStatus

You can try to use Scientific Linux instead (http://www.scientificlinux.org)
As Centos, the base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux
(RHEL), recompiled from source, and Scientific Linux 6.0 was released on
March 3, 2011
—
Philippe Makowski
http://www.ibphoenix.com

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