Firebird support for DBExpress
Please support Firebird database with the DBExpress driver. A huge percent of the Delphi community are Firebird users and are claiming for this.
Or at least help the Firebird team to implement this support in DBX4.
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
[ANN] FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 2 released.
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 2, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.
Download information can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider
New Grant Allocation for Core Coding
From the Firebird Foundation blog:
The Committee announces that it has approved a new allocation to assist with the work-up and
codebase familiarisation of a “trainee” for Firebird core development.The new allocation has been assigned to Alex Krutyakov, a highly
skilled C++ developer from Moscow. His work-up will be supervised
directly by our code leader Dmitry Yemanov, for a period of six months.
Dmitry plans to ask Alex to work on several of the new modules for
Firebird 3, including:
- Large Exact Numeric support
- Built-in functions
- Shared-disk clustering research
- External database links
We extend a cordial welcome to Alex Krutyakov, who officially joins the core team on Thursday (Feb. 1st).
EMS Data Generator v. 2.3 released
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EMS Data Generator 2.3 is now available and can be downloaded from the download pages Download Data Generator for IB/FB What’s new in Data Generator version 2.3 |
Firebird Embedded and .NET
I (Jiri Cincura) have created a small how-to for Firebird Embedded and .NET.
ANN: The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine #4
The owners of the InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine iBase.ru and IBPhoenix today agreed to collaborate in producing future issues of the magazine. Under the agreement, free copies of the magazine will be distributed to IBPhoenix Support and Subscription customers automatically in advance of publication.
Ruby on Rails 1.2 released
Rails works with a wealth of web servers and databases. For web server, we recommend Apache or lighttpd, running either FastCGI or SCGI, or Mongrel. For database, you can use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, or Firebird. Just about any operating system will do, but we recommend a ‘nix-based one for deployment.
[ED: spotted on the rails weblog and slashdot develannouncements]
Firebird 2.0 MacOS Classic Build on Intel – update
An updated build of the .pkg file is at:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/Firebird-CS-2.0.pkg.zip
Right Click and Save As.
Fixed, problem with SET NAMES and loading character sets
Fixed, problem with loading UDFs
Regards
Paul Beach
New Null Guide beta
There’s a new Null Guide beta at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/manual/temp/nullguide/nullguide.html
The following things have been added since the previous beta:
Firebird Core Engine Development – Activity report for 2006/2007
Developer Progress Reports for Core , DSQL , INTL & Security/Linux Builds (POSIX)