New Bronze sponsor
From the Firebird Foudation blog: We’re pleased to welcome the Danish company Maxys ApS, of Suldrup, as a one-time bronze sponsor. Thanks to Kristian Tylvad and colleagues.
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Firebird related news
Two Firebird days in Germany – Erlanger Firebird Tag
Hello,
For German language please have a look at our DBA Blog:
http://www.blogs.uni-erlangen.de/db/stories/2717/
to shorten the time to the next firebird conference there will be a
small firebird day in Germany, Erlangen at the RRZE
(www.rrze.de) (local computing center of the university
Erlangen-Nürnberg) from 8th to 9th May 2009.
We’ll start at Friday morning and end at Saturday evening.
There might be a pre day presentation for sponsors on 7 May.
The main track will be in German but it’s also possible to have some
English talks as the once of Dimitry and Vlad for example and
international after track meetings.
-= Today I’m looking for sponsors and speakers =-
IBProvider for Firebird and Interbase has been released.
Changes in IBProvider v2 (build 2.6.06.2688)
- Addition of UTF-8 charset support
- Loading of charset information for COLUMN and PROCEDURE_PARAMETERS metadata schemes from system tables.
Changes in IBProvider v3 (build 3.0.0.6327 RC3)
New IBProvider v3 offers the brand new method for working with text data charsets:
- We added ctype_user property that allows setting the encoding of data coming to client irrespective of the encoding in which this data is coming from database server.
- New algorithms of BLOB fields converting provide for quick work with flowing data, optimization of interaction with ICU library.
- We added ctype_none property that allows setting the charset for working with text data in NONE encoding.
- Other important changes.
- Support of Firebird and Interbase charsets aliases.
See detailed information on working with new character set processor in Firebird and Interbase character sets.
Text columns size in Firebird 2.X
IBProvider started to control text columns size when working with Firebird 2 servers in Unicode mode. If the length of loaded data exceeds the text column size the exclusion will be generated.
6 Million downloads – record for bandwidth used
Firebird project hits the 6 Million download at the sf.net
also the bandwidth used is reaching it’s highest point if you watch the graph downloads slope
The question is how do we attract more funds or developers ?
Solaris port of Firebird 2.5 on x86 finished
Alex Peshkov wrote on firebird-devel list
Happy to notify you that I’ve finished with solaris port of 2.5 on x86. I.e.
currently out code base works not only with windows and posix threading, but
also with native solaris. Both dev and release builds pass tcs OK except few
minor issues with double precision arithmetics, when digits like
12.3456789123456 differ in the last column. I suppose this is related with
VirtualBox VM problems (in all other aspects it runs Solaris wonderful).
Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider 2.5.0 Beta 1 for .NET 3.5/2.0 [with Entity Framework support]
I’m pleased to announce 2.5.0 Beta 1 for .NET 3.5/2.0 [with Entity
Framework support] version. It contains several bugfixes as well as
brand new Entity Framework support (still beta!). Looking forward to
your feedback.
Binary as well as sources can be downloaded from
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
Hewlett-Packard Violating our Trademark Rights
Hewlett-Packard has been reported as about to announce a new gaming appliance named “Firebird”. Any computer-related product is in Class 9, the same class in which “Firebird” is a protected mark registered to the Foundation. Someone at HP didn’t do his homework! Hewlett-Packard (Australia) Pty Ltd has been sent a letter by registered mail informing them of the violation and the need to ensure that the parent company knows it cannot use our trademark.
Source: Firebird Foundation blog
phpBB 3.0.4 released
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the “one year anniversary” phpBB 3.0.4 package
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009!
FirebirdNews wish a really Nice Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all the Firebird people, specially developers and supporters!
2009 will be a cool year, with the release of FB 2.5 and the first betas of 3.0 showing up! If you want to send a XMas gift to the project, you can do this right now contributing with the Firebird Foundation 😉
Go Firebird!
Compile UDF-library rfunc for Firebird 2.0.3 on FreeBSD
There was no good documentation [how to do it] but in fact was realy easy.