Oracle licenses Open Invention Network patents
I guess patent “protection” apply to firebird too
Oracle has signed a patent agreement with the Open Invention Network (OIN).
Category: General news
Firebird related news
More firebird ports
In the following months I’ll try to port firebird to all architectures
currently supported by Debian.
Delphi on Rails?
The developers who brought us Delphi, that Ferrari of Integrated Development Environments, are entering the dynamic language tools race, and this time they are sporting Ruby red.
PHP Interbase Extension Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
PHP Interbase Extension Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
BugTraq ID: 22976
Remote: Yes
Date Published: 2007-03-15
Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22976
Firebird Maestro 7.3 released. Now with graphical database designer!
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.3, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
The main feature of the new version is the Graphical Database Designer – a case tool for managing your database in a few mouse clicks. This piece of our software is intended for creation of physical Entity Relationship Diagrams that represent objects in your Firebird databases. Each diagram displays the tables of your database and the relationships between them.
- Handy tools of Designer allow you to create new and edit existing tables and references;
- The reverse engineering feature will help you to understand the schema structure and make its modification in an easy and clear way;
- Now you can quickly and easily print your database structure with a lot of options including header and footer, paper size and orientation, etc;
- A rich set of options and settings give you a way to see your database in your own look and feel style.
A diagram of your database can help you define operational aspects of your application logic that you might otherwise overlook. Also, a well-defined data diagram that accurately represents your tasks can be helpful in orienting employees to goals and operations.
Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/firebird/maestro/news/3641/
FireRuby Project Status
Peter Wood wrote on RubyForge
Its been a while since I’ve visited the FireRuby project and in that time Firebird 2.0 has been released and I see that a number of bugs and requests have been posted.
Unfortunately I don’t currently have the time to update and test the code for the new release or address the issues raised and I feel it only fair that I say this on the site.
50% discount for Firebird Foundation members
I’ve just created a Home Inventory software that uses Firebird embedded. To show my appreciation to the project, and perhaps make Firebird Foundation membership more attractive, I decided to give 50% discount to Foundation members on this and all my future programs that use Firebird. Program’s page is at:
http://www.guacosoft.com/attic/
Best of all, you can take out the database backup and do whatever you want with it (it’s a regular Firebird 2.0 database).
The Firebird 2.0 Book Supplement is available.
If you bought an original copy of The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers directly from IBPhoenix you should have already received an email giving you instructions on how to download your free copy of the Firebird 2.0 Supplement to the book.If you didn’t, then please let me know off list.
Firebird support in Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
David Elias has updated his patch for Firebird support in Django. All tests are passed with the current version of this patch and author consider it in production-ready quality.
PHP Database abstraction mailing list
There’s a new mailing list to discuss PHP DBAL related issues.
Read the details in this blog entry