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Two simple Python scripts showing how to connect to Firebird using wxPython.

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Below are two simple Python scripts (not involving dabo) just showing how to connect to Firebird and do a simple task using wxPython.

http://dabodev.com/wiki/Firebird

(1) The first script lets the user go into the File menu and select a Firebird database, and then it displays (do-nothing) buttons in a wxPython Sizer object down the left side of the window, one for each table (and view) in the database.

(2) The second script is hard-coded to open a particular Firebird database and display a particular table in a grid. (Before running, you will need to go into this script and change the hard-coded sections so they are appropriate for your system. You’ll need to change the host and database parameters and the SQL statement – and maybe also the user and password parameters. Look for the lines preceded by a comment starting with ###.)

German translation of Firebird security article

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There’s an article on the Firebird Documentation web-page about Firebird File and Metadata Security. Since this is an interesting topic to our customers, I took the time to translate it to German.

The article describes the fundamental problems in securing network connections. One of the biggest problem is key management. Since the Firebird server is usually controlled by and installed at the client’s site, you don’t have any control over it. So, theoretically, someone could always build his own Firebird server to spy on the password. But that’s only one of the problems discussed.

Many thanks to Geoff Worboys, the author of the original article, and Paul Vinkenoog for publishing it on the official web-site.

Sourceforge.net Update January Edition…

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.. mentions Firebird as one of the Top 25 Projects of the Month

Sourceforge.net Update is a monthly electronic newspaper from sourceforge. It keeps you update of the changes inside sourceforge, and many other interesting information. It always ends with a list of 25 projects that are “under radar”.

This month, Firebird is on this top 25 list, next to other well know open source projects, such as Azureus, phpMyAdmin, 7-Zip, Webmin.

QT framework v4.5 to be released under LGPL

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Thomas wrote this on the firebird-general mailing list

pretty off-topic here, but IMHO even interesting for Firebird users,
because Firebird/InterBase can be accessed via the QT framework.

Formerly licensed under GPL and a commercial license for closed source
development, releasing QT under LGPL is a very “interesting” move from
Nokia.

Especially for QT-based embedded devices, Firebird might be an
interesting option for an embeddable database, if:

* there is a stable Firebird specific (not the current InterBase one,
even if it might work now) QT SQL driver/module implementation available
* Firebird is cross-compilable for ARM, … (something which has been
discussed on firebird-devel from time to time. AFAIK, there is a private
ARM port of Firebird somewhere)

Ah well, just letting you know … 😉

Two Firebird days in Germany – Erlanger Firebird Tag

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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 =- Read more

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