Building Firebird 2.5 from Debian git repository
These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others
News from the Firebird developers.
These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others
If you wish firebird C api were simpler to use similar to dbi api that is used in the perl world
then now you can with the help of libdbi and it’s nice C api , Here is my howto install such an abstraction layer over the standard Firebird C api.
Here is how the libdbi example should look for firebird
It’s finally here: the final release before the final release of
CakePHP 1.2 [ED:Tested and works just fine with Firebird 2.1]

Some of you may remember the benchmarks posted by Rasmus Lerdorf, in
which CakePHP did not perform so well. We can all debate Rasmus’ due
diligence (or lack of), but what was clear was that we had some
catching up to do. Over the past few weeks, Larry has worked
tirelessly on iteration after iteration of performance improvements,
and now we’re faster than ever before. By itself, the bootstrap
process is over 10x faster than RC2, and basic requests for static
content are now about 5x faster overall.
Hi people,
Fabio has sent me the PDF version of Frank Ingermann’s conference session. You can find it at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Writing-Firebird–Docs-Intro.pdf
or via the Firebird Documentation Index –> Manuals for Firebird Docwriters
I’ve uploaded PDF, HTML and multi-HTML versions of the 2.0 LangRef Update to
23.09.2008 – A new release is out. It brings new features like Firebird 2.1 support, tabbed browsing, etc. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and source code package are available for download. Here are the details.
The DDEX Provider v2.0.4 for Visual Studio has been released. Download it from
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
Hello,
the DDEX Provider v2.0.3 for Visual Studio has been released. This release contains all new registry files as well as reworked readme file for installation and one bug fix. Download it from http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
The final version of SP1 for VS2008 and .NET 3.5 is out for a while. And you may noticed, that there were some [more …]