Firebird Database Events and Message-oriented Middleware (part 2)
Part two of the previous article is now online : Introducing message brokers and message queues
Category: General news
Firebird related news
October Month Changes for Firebird 2.5.x Release branch
Here are the source code changes for Firebird 2.5.x branch in the Month of October :
– Fix compilation for semaphore classes [57221]
– Backport fix for CORE-3946 – UNICODE collations does not work with ICU 49 [57236]
– Fixed the backporting bug introduced while fixing CORE-3902 [57244]
– Avoid a sweep pass for temporary tables, as the sweeper always sees those tables as empty, but even setting them up as empty has a non-zero cost [57265]
Developers are not to be trusted
A post with the title “Developers are not to be trusted” in the TPersistent.com blog is getting lots of “move to Firebird” in its comments. Do you agree? Read it and comment.
Android port for Jaybird
Mark Rotteveel wrote on Firebird-Java
Although I am skeptical about the need for an android port for Jaybird,
I have decided that I am going to spend some time to investigate the
problems involved in porting Jaybird to android.
To that end, I would like to hear if anyone has tried this before, and
what problems arose when trying to do that. Either reply here, or add
your comment to http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/JDBC-280
New Flamerobin snapshots flamerobin-0.9.3.1186200 ready for testing
New Flamerobin snapshots flamerobin-0.9.3.1186200 for Windows are available .
You can check Git Log for source code changes and details.
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list or in the new bug tracker .
On Ubuntu/Debian you can follow the Buiding guide from git to obtain the latest snapshot source.
ADO.NET provider 3.0.0 for Firebird and DDEX provider 3.0.0 for Firebird released
I’m pleased to announce version 3.0.0 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird and version 3.0.0 of DDEX provider for Firebird.
Promoting Firebird at #CIAPEM2012 (Mexic)
Here is the picture from twitter and here is the event page.
At the CIAPEM 2012 event, many people are interested in Firebird SQL
en el ciapem 2012, hay mucha gente interesada en Firebird sql #ciapem #veracruz
Firebird Conference 2012 Schedule per days is now published #FBCon12
Firebird 2012 Conference schedule was just published http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2012/
Firebird Conference 2012 will take place on October 26-27 in Luxembourg.Only 1 day is left!
Firebird 3.0 SMP support feature marked as resolved
A visitor of FBNews (Simon) just pointed out that the ticket for “SMP support in FB 3” was marked as resolved by Dmitry Yemanov today, in the Firebird tracker.
Another tutorial film online Firebird server versions and differences
We have ve just uploaded the next topic in our Firebird Training for DB Admins tutorial series, 03 Firebird server versions and differences. View in our Learning Center or go to our YouTube channel.
ps: check the other movies from this series 02 Installing the Firebird server, using the installer and installing from a ZIP file, 01 Introduction to admin tasks, taking a look a database backups, restores and garbage collection