looking for a sponsor for package ibpp in debian
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Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird Code Factory released
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SQL Maestro Group is announcing the initial release of a new Firebird related software – Firebird Code Factory. This tool is intended for developing and executing SQL queries and scripts as well as for data management. |
Key features:
- Visual Query Builder
- Handy SQL Editor with code folding and syntax highlighting
- Simultaneous executing of several queries with multi-threading
- Data management: editing, grouping, sorting and filtering abilities
- Data export to as many as 14 file formats including Excel, RTF and HTML
- Data import from Excel, CSV, text files and more
- Powerful BLOB Viewer/Editor
There are also versions of Code Factory for other DBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc. More information.
OpenJPA supports Firebird and JayBird
Firebird users prefers Firefox
Curiosity of the day
Looking Google Analytics statistics for FirebirdNews site, it is clear that most of Firebird users prefers Firefox over IE. Check the stats below:
- Firefox 55.81%
- Internet Explorer 33.32%
- Opera 7.31%
- Mozilla 2.13%
How much would be the cost to develop Firebird from scratch?
Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.
Firebird job for the weekend – on rentacoder
Job for the weekend : Add Stored Procedures To Firebird Database
Another interesting one is about crypting stored procedures in Firebird.
Keep your eye on the Firebird related jobs
Feedback on Firebird Appliance
The thread is here
Follow the Progress of JRuby on Rails
Charles Nutter has been keeping an updated page of Rails test run results that shows progress towards the goal of a fully-functioning JRuby on Rails. Members of the JRuby team have already demonstrated Rails applications working on JRuby, and even ActiveRecord talking to databases via JDBC. To be clear, what we’re talking about here is the effort to get the sizable Rails test suite running at 100% passing.
new package added firebird2.0.1-doc in debian
Documentation files for firebird database version 2.0.1
Various documents for firebird 2.0.1, inclluding release notes, what’s new in firebird 2.0.1, quick start guide, list of ISQL enhancements etc.
Firebird wiki
Firebird wiki site is ready now. http://wiki.firebirdsql.org