Firebird related news
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Michael Hieke wrote on flamerobin-devel list :
I have posted SVN revision 2048 (nice round number) snapshot files for
Windows 32 and 64 bits, both setup and ZIP files.
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions.
From the download statistics we can observe that Firebird will hit 1 Million downloads for this year pretty soon (a few days)
It’s hard to translate the sentence but the main idea is in Autumn you get all the rewards for a full year work (if you work in agriculture)
The article is in Romanian and is on one of the best portals for Free Software (Translated Be Free)
You can try reading using the google translate.
From Sergey Mereutsa (posted to fb-devel):
Dear friends!
While it is an offtopic here, but it may be interesting for all, who is in any form involved in Firebird development.
Several years ago, we announced a web-based game, written in Firebird SQL. It was DQ:Empires and a lot of peoples around the world played this game.
Now, I`m pleased to announce next game, in the same game universe, but slightly other – Delta Quadrant: Horizons, a web-based space 4X strategy.
I will not write much details here about the game (someone compared it with online version of Masters of Orion game, but it is not MOO2 clone) – you can read more on game`s site, http://www.dqhorizons.com/ .
Some technical details:
Have you ever lost microseconds when working with the type TIME?
Definitely, if you have ever tried to use them. In the previous versions of IBProvider, time was stored in OLE DB structure of DBTYPE_DBTIME type that does not support fractions of a second.
In the new IBProvider version, time data types have been improved. The new properties dbtime_rules and dbtimestamp_rules allow to set time storage not only in DBTIME/DBTIMESTAMP but also in WSTR and in the new type of MS SQL 2008 – DBTIME2 without losing milliseconds.
Please, read more and download new IBProvider Professional right now: Download Firebird OLE DB driver.
This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream
development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of
Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any
problems.
firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to
release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop
firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy
approaches releasable state.
Preliminary packagiing is available at
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary
here are the download links :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win32-py2.7.msi/download
Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.
Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1
Something must be right for Firebird SQL
MongoDB (1296 secs) is MUCH slower than Firebird (125 secs) at just returning id’s from 2 million records. This can’t be right.
via twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27460544811
