Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Announcement :stable version of Firebird driver for the PHP Codeigniter Framework
Carlos wrote on firebird-php group : I’ve developed a stable version of a Firebird driver for the PHP Codeigniter Framework . Good feedback has been received from the Codeigniter community so far, and hope this could be useful for more developers working with PHP and Firebird.The sources are available at bitbucket here and any issues can be reported here
or at my blog here and for the English readers …
Thanx, live long and prosper…
Carlos García Trujillo
ps: seems that the driver is quite popular in such a small timeframe
I am happy that my driver for # firebird # codeigniter already are used by people from around the world in so little time:)
Now the benchmark results : seems that Firebird 2.5 compiled with clang++ is faster than g++
Now i have the clean build results and seems that clang++ is faster in one benchmark that i have tested Soon i will add more and test clang++ build with other benchmarks also some graphs will be added to the dry results 🙂
If you want to follow the clang++ build saga here is the tag on my blog
Firebird project is worth more than Half a Billion $
According to ohloh widget calculator the project is worth $ 671,246,615
“This calculator estimates how much it would cost to hire a team to write this project from scratch.”
You can help promoting firebird by using the widget to your site and clicking “I Use this” button
python 3 db api for firebird rdbms is updated.
python 3 db api version 0.2.0 is released
FirebirdDB driver for Codeigniter 2.0 is released Finally!
Here is the announcement on Codeigniter Forums
I have developed a FirebirdDB driver for Codeigniter 2.0
you can get it at BitBucket here
Code Igniter seems to be a cool PHP framework
CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks. In a critical take on PHP frameworks in general, PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke at frOSCon in August 2008, noting that he liked CodeIgniter “because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework”.
#Ruby news : Firebird driver compilable on #rbx (rubinius) and full test passes on Linux (for the classic Ruby VM)
Here is the description of rubinius:
Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language.
The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++, incorporating LLVM to compile bytecode to machine code at runtime. The bytecode compiler and vast majority of the core classes are written in pure Ruby.
Here are the rbx experiments done by Brent Rowland
fb now builds fine but won’t load due to missing rb_ary_freeze and rb_struct_new. #rbx
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27771719659
And yes the Linux tests for classic Ruby VM are all ok
Linux testing of the latest fb code went well. 32- and 64-bit Rubies
#Delphi , #Lazarus : UIB 2.5 is optimized to fully exploit Firebird 2.5
There was no major release since a long time,but the project has always been maintained for 7 years now.
In honor of the new version of Firebird, I decided to release this new version of UIB in 2.5.
There have been many changes to support Unicode for Delphi 2009 to XE.
UIB is optimized to fully exploit Firebird 2.5.
http://www.progdigy.com/?p=149
ps: if you don’t know what UIB is , here is the description (archive.org link)
http://www.progdigy.com/?page_id=5
current page for UIB is https://github.com/hgourvest/uib
Idokan is Creating now 4 packages of firebird 2.5 for #ArchLinux
Via twitter and flamerobin /firebird-devel mailing lists i have seen a lot of activity related to firebird on ArchLinux packages
Creating now 4 packages of #firebird 2.5 to #ArchLinux: SuperServer, libfbclient, ClassicServer, SuperClassic, will be in AUR when I’ll done
Arch is in top 10 most wanted distros on distrowatch
Firebird 2.5 (final) released
Today the Firebird 2.5 is being released. You can read the press release and most importantly release notes. And sure, you can download it and use/test/deploy.
Congratulation to us, the Firebird Project, especially the core team. And also to you, users, I hope you’ll enjoy and like the new Firebird 2.5 version as we (I) do.
Note: The MindTheBird campaign team will run a webinar today at 13:00 GMT in anticipation of the launch of Firebird 2.5 Final Release. See the details.
I quoted from Jiri blog