Category: General news

Because I’m not able to reply to all the questions about Firebird and .NET I’m getting, I’ve set up a new place to ask these questions: http://forums.dotnetfirebird.org. I’ll try to answer the questions if I know the answer. You might also get an answer from someone else if I’m too busy ;-).
Posted by Dan at dotnetfirebird.org

CodeGear announced two new Delphi products: Delphi 2007 for Win32, to generate Win32 native applications for Windows 2000,XP and Vista, and Delphi for PHP, a new product to develop PHP applications. Both products cames with native InterBase drivers, so probably it can be used with Firebird too, and of course there are also tons of third party native components for Firebird access. More information in the CodeGear site.

SQLObject 0.8.0 was released 12 Feb 2007.

SQLObject is a popular python ORM for providing an object interface to your database, with tables as classes, rows as instances, and columns as attributes.

SQLObject includes a Python-object-based query language that makes SQL more abstract, and provides substantial database independence for applications.

A map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the [ED:Evil]Empire of Microsoft.

Since many FB users are also Delphi users, it may be interesting to know that CodeGear is opening the Delphi field test group to accept new members. More information here.

There is a discussion going on in a Indonesian Delphi forum about Firebird wishlist. You can check it here.

Dabo 0.7.2 was released at Jan 18, 2007.

Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. And while Dabo is designed to create database-centric apps, that is not a requirement. Lots of people are using Dabo for the GUI tools to create apps that have no need to connect to a database at all.

Currently, Dabo supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite backends, but in the near future it will support all databases that have drivers that conform to the Python dbapi.

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