Firebird related news
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.
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).
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. Read more
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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.
There’s a new mailing list to discuss PHP DBAL related issues.
Read the details in this blog entry
martijn wrote in his blog about DatabaseDevelopmentForum.Com :
Quite some time ago, Arno Brinkman (from the Firebird Database Project and I launched a forum website where you can ask questions about different database systems.
[ED: the other Firebird forums that you can visit are fbtalk.net and devshed ]
Ok, I know this is a totally sucky announcement not even worthy of
Firebird, but time keeps going by. I have yet to be able to get together
the info for a better one. So here is a very crude announcement. Read more
David I just posted in his blog that the new Delphi for PHP supports Firebird, along with many other databases.
No mention of firebird but an interesting news for php/delphi developers
