Jim Starkey: Introducing Falcon (the video and the podcast)
This is a great presentation, Jim throws in a lot of database history and insight into working with MySQL
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Interview with Paul Ruinzendaal (Fyracle)
Available here (you need to login to read the full interview).
Jim Starkey talked at Boston mysql meetup
He talked about Falcon, the new storage engine for MySQL An video will be uploaded soon
Firebird Questions .NET
I’ve just released a new experimental site: http://www.firebirdquestions.net/.
It is a searchable and browsable archive of firebird-net-provider mailing list.
Noteworthy features:
- Updated automatically every 60 seconds
- Search is powered by Lucene.Net and Seekafile Server.
- You can browse the history by threads.
- You can skip to next/previous thread by hitting ‘j’/’k’ keys.
- All e-mails protected.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Do you want to download free eBooks?
No! No piracy here! Just access the World eBook Fair site from 4/July to 4/Aug and you will be able to download many ebooks (from the 300,000 publications catalog) for free and with no need for registration. You may try search for some words like programming, databases, sql, etc.
New FB 2.0 book will be released at FDD
“Firebird 2“, my new book devoted only to the new features of Firebird 2.0 will be released at the Firebird Developers Day Conference, in Brazil at July, 29. The book is written in portuguese and will be sold with special price during the conference.
.NET provider – New project members
There are two new members of the .NET Provider project:
Jiri Cincura: Will handle the nigthly build process for the .NET
Provider, DDEX, …
Le Roy Arnaud: Will be the mantainer of the ASP.NET Web Providers.
Weekly builds of FB ADO.NET Provider
Weekly builds of FB ADO.NET Provider (only) are available on http://netprovider.cincura.net/ .
C# compiler from MS .NET FW 2.0 is used, builds using Mono, etc. will come too.
Comments and request are welcome and can be send to firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net (or to me/Carlos).
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No Lobbysts As Such – The Fight Against Sofware Patents in Europe
Florian Müller’s memoir-style book has been released under the Creative Commons license this month.
On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July last year with a landslide vote of the European Parliament against a proposal for a software patent directive.
The book is now available on the Internet for download:
http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/NoLobbyistsAsSuch.pdf
[ED: spotted on the planet mysql , is interesting that now Redhat fights against an patent pirrate FireStar for basically “accessing an database” ]