New article about optimization of network traffic in Delphi and C++ Builder applications
Devrace have published a new article “Devrace FIBPlus: Optimization of network traffic in Delphi and C++ Builder applications”. From it you will get to know:
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
New version of SQLAlchemy’s Firebird backend
Lele Gaifax calls for testing the new version of Firebird backend for SQLAlchemy. The source is attached to this trac ticket.
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
It provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.
PDO database API adds Firebird support
jrmarino writes “Pascal Data Objects (PDO) is a database API that works equally well on FPC and Delphi. When I introduced this 10 months ago, only MySQL 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 were supported. Since then, I have moved the project to Sourceforge and recently added drivers for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0. Some new abstraction capabilities were also added.”
Via lazarus.freepascal.org
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.
[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]