JRuby 0.9.8 Released
The JRuby team is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 0.9.8.
Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/
Can be used with ActiveRecord-JDBC and Firebird driver
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
DatabaseLayer 1.7.1 Released
DatabaseLayer is a wxCode library written to offer a JDBC-like API to database access. For a summary of the functionality offered by
DatabaseLayer, visit http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/docs/databaselayer/summary.html. The main web page is located at
http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/docs/databaselayer/. At this time, the supported database backends are SQLite, Firebird, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle (partial), and TDS (which includes MS SQL Server and Sybase – both partially supported).
Testing a Non-Rails Application Using Rails
Rails developers working on enterprise software projects are suprised to discover the lack of automated tests in many mature web applications. As frustrating as this can be, A lack of automated tests is also a tremendous opportunity to
Some basic PHP calls for use in Delphi for PHP or pure PHP
VCL 4 PHP source code has been checked into SourceForge
Wahoo! I did it! The last part of a WP-DB.PHP for Interbase/Firebird
Delphi For PHP Released – firebird related article on slashdot
Here is the original article and the interbase/firebird mention
Codegear (now a subsidiary of Borland) has just released version 1.0 of Delphi for PHP, a RAD development environment (running on Windows) that produces standard PHP code. It features a large set of built-in components, including ones that use AJAX for database access; and Codegear is encouraging users to develop their own components. The framework, VCL for PHP, is open source, and documentation follows the PHP model. Initial database connectivity is for MySQL and Interbase (Codegear’s commercial database that spawned the open-source Firebird), but more are promised.
The Python Papers , Volume 2, Issue 1, 2007
This is the complete issue containing Python User Group highlights, interviews, more on coding idioms, and an academic paper on the Firebird Database. (Revision 2)
libgda/libgnomedb version 3.0RC 1 have been released.
After a lot of bug fixes and cleanups, I’m pleased to announce that Libgda and Libgnomedb have reached a point where the API and ABI are frozen for the upcoming 3.0 release. This new upcoming version is a complete overhaul compared to the previous 1.2.x versions (the jump to 3.0 is due to a shared libraries versionning). The sources can be downloaded from GNOME servers. Read more
Delphi for PHP – First impressions
Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues:
Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.