Firebirdsql.org main website traffic doubles on compete.com
seems that traffic for main firebirdsql.org site doubled if you take a look at compete stats for the last year
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/firebirdsql.org/?metric=uv
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Is it possible to write a similar Firebird database driver?
Today we are (IBProvider team) overwhelmingly happy because we have finally released the final build of the 3rd version of IBProvider.
Is it possible to write a similar database driver?
Of course, you can write it! All you need is a strong desire and 7 years of free time. Exactly the same time it took us to write the third version of IBProvider.
Please read about development results here and download new Firebird driver here:
Firebird driver developers results
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Regards, IBProvider Team.
How to create Fiebird database via ADODB (ADO Ext)
In the new article we describe a new feature of IBProvider – supporting ADOX.Library.
There are 2 examples on Visual C# and VBScript which describe how to create Firebird database using ADODB Extensions.
See details here:
Create Firebird or Interbase database (ADOX, Visual C# .NET, VBScript)
Is Firebird making it into the big #enterprise? replacing #mysql , #mssql , or #oracle
This is the tweet of the day
Today a giant company in the printing business bought Sinática Monitor. Is #Firebird making it into the enterprise? Cheers…
ps:Firebird is ready and it’s used for Enterprise systems (replacing mysql , mssql , or oracle)
Building the #Qt FireBird #SQL driver with #MinGW on #Windows
The Qt toolkit contains many great SQL drivers and among them is also an InterBase / FireBird SQL driver. But the Windows version of the toolkit ships with SQLite and ODBC driver binaries only. The other ones have to be built by ourseleves. This article describes how to build the FireBird driver using MinGW 32bit version of Qt 4.6 for Windows.
OS Download stats from beginning of the year : big shock is Android
Here are the stats from beginning of the year and the big shock is not Windows vs Linux type of pie charts
but that there are downloads from Android !
http://sourceforge.net/downloads/firebird/stats_os?dates=2010-02-01%20to%202010-08-18
I wonder if anyone got it working on it , maybe there are only Java driver related ones, that would make sense
#Firebird2.1 package is updated in #Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat
The next release of Ubuntu will have an updated package for firebird with one hard to detect bug fixed (the Classic install one)
#MindTheBird materials are available in #Romanian now
Thanks to the Firebird Romanian Community (Doru, Florin …)
You can download it from the left list of links from the #mindthebird campaign
Firebird is 29th most active (all time) #SourceForge / #Geeknet project.
Saw it on Adriano’s tweet , and here is the link
