LINQ provider for Firebird added
DbLinq is THE LINQ provider that allows to use common databases with an API close to Linq to SQL
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Watching Firebird project trough the FishEye
Now you can watch Firebird project and changelog trough the Atlassian’s FishEye
Building Firebird in parallel with make on multicore systems
Damyan Ivanov committed patches for building Firebird 2.5 in parallel with make and -j option
This is good in case you have multicpu system
SuperServer builds now with -j8 for 3 minutes on an 4-core Phenom
compared to ~13 minutes without -j; both builds use the system
libedit and ICU.
Firebird2.5 SuperClassic in debian – soon
Damyan asked if we can simplify the packages for firebird 2.5 and
by dropping the old classic support and pushing the super and super-classic
DBX4 Firebird Driver Development
I started to implement a DBX4 Driver for Firebird 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.1, it is for Delphi 2007 and 2009, open source and all code is done with Delphi it self.[ED:Please Send any questions/ideas]
Regards,Cesar Romero
http://blogs.liws.com.br/cesar
Firebird Developers Day 2008 (Czech Republic) – Impressions
Here are the first pictures from Firebird Developers Day 2008 (Czech Republic)
Lazarus 0.9.26 and Firebird on Ubuntu hardy/intrepid
Here is my guide on using the latest stable release for Lazarus and latest free pascal compiler (2.2.2) on Ubuntu intrepid/hardy Also after that install firebird related components and seems to work very well (tested the db aware components)
Firebird – database intro and implementation
In this paper the author will discuss about the Firebird database, from the introduction of Firebird itself, with the installation until its implementation.(Indonesian language)
Lazarus 0.9.26 released
The changes in this release are as follows:
The LCL now uses Unicode strings encoded as UTF-8 on all platforms.
Lazarus now runs natively under Mac OS X using the “Carbon” widget
set. The LCL internal graphic system was rewritten for more
consistency, more flexibility, better Delphi compatibility, icon
support, and native image lists. The IDE designer now allows you to
connect form components, like databases on TDataModule.
Lazarus can be used with Firebird and there are many components to choose UIB, Zeos , FbLib , PDO…
What is Firebird?
Dmitry Kuzmenko has an interesting post in his blog that tries to describe what is the “Firebird Project” and “Firebird Foundation” (as well its papers in the whole thing). Also, it has some interesting statistics about downloads and installations, ie:
…But it stands more than 5000 visits every day and log more than 1000 installations at Windows platform per day (!), according to the statistics of the installer’s ‘landing page’. Also there are more than 1 mln downloads of all Firebird installers and other files per year from the sourceforge.
Read the full post.