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Firebird Maestro 7.7 released

July 11, 2007 SQL Maestro Team Leave a comment

SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.7, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.

New version features:

Unicode/UTF-8 data management.
Since this version Firebird Maestro works fine with embedded Firebird server.
Transaction Browser is implemented (Firebird 2.1). This feature is very useful for DBAs who want to monitor the users’ activity.
Support of database triggers from Firebird 2.1 is added to the software.
Database Designer: a possibility of locking/unlocking diagram objects is added.
It is now possible to execute SQL scripts after connect and before disconnect to/from a database.

There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4443/

waiting for the firebird storm

July 10, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

Storm is an object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python developed at Canonical. The project has been in development for more than a year for use in Canonical projects such as [WWW] Launchpad, and has recently been released as an open-source product.
Who knows maybe an firebird port will be made for it

1st Firebird Rendez-vous video broadcast

July 6, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

There will be a Firebird Rendez-vous inside the Libre Software Meeting next 12
of July

For those who cannot come to Amiens in France, there will be a video brodcasting

More information here :
http://www.rmll.info/rubrique10.html?lang=en
(Martijn and Paul Session will be in English, others in French)

FirebirdClient v2.5.0 Alpha 1 released.

July 5, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

FirebirdClient v2.5.0 Alpha 1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.

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Is time to vote firebird in SF Community Choice Awards 2007

July 4, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/

News via phoronix.com

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Linux Gains Windows Muscle with LAMP/WAMP/FLAP/FWAP stack

July 4, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free — alternatives to traditional solutions.

[ED: no wonder that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year]

Morfik Announces Support for iPhone Development

June 28, 2007 mauriciolongo Leave a comment

This week Morfik Technologies announced that its WebOS AppsBuilder web development tool supports the creation of applications for the iPhone. The first sample application is a chess game.

Morfik uses Firebird as its default, built-in, database.

More details and comments on ReadWriteWeb.

Composite Primary Keys Version 0.8.6 on Ruby on Rails (with ActiveRecords)

June 26, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

Ruby on Rails does not support composite primary keys. This free software is an extension to the database layer of Rails – ActiveRecords – to support composite primary keys as transparently as possible.
[ED:Article Via http://flex-builder.blogspot.com/2007/06/chave-primria-composta_22.html]

Firebird added to the List of Packages Tracked by DistroWatch

June 25, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

This is the list of current stable packages tracked by DistroWatch, the latest versions and some notes and explanations where applicable.
Thank you Distro guy :Ladislav Bodnar

Another Major Sponsor: Red Soft Corporation

June 21, 2007 Cantu Leave a comment

From Firebird Foundation blog:

Today Vadim Schchepinov, CEO of Red Soft Corporation, a company developing applications over Firebird databases for companies and government agencies in Russia, announced that his company would commit to sponsorship at Silver band or higher, with an indication of intent to assist the Foundation over any cash flow problems that might arise in the current year. We will try to provide more detail after the AGM and before the start of the general meeting next month to discuss Firebird’s future management and funding arrangements.

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