FBScanner 2.1 released
IBSurgeon just released the newest version of its Firebird server monitoring tool, FBScanner, with several new features. Read more here. Brazilians can take a look here too.
Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Habanero’s Firestarter now supports Firebird
Habanero is a free open source Enterprise Application Framework, supporting Object Relational Mapping (ORM). A set of class definitions describe how to persist data between object oriented code and a relational database backend. Firestarter is a modelling tool included with the Habanero download that manages the class definitions and allows you to reverse engineer the class definitions from an existing database.
Habanero currently supports data persistence to MySQL, Access, Sql Server, Oracle, SQLite, PostGreSQL, and more recently, Firebird. Due to popular demand, the Firestarter modeller has now been enhanced with the ability to reverse engineer from Firebird as well.
Read full history.
Firebird 2.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 added to altlinux
Firebird 2.1.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 are added to altlinux.Also latest odbc driver for firebird and mono 2.0.1
AltLinux is an Linux distro that will be used in all the Russian Schools
Other related news about altlinux you can grab from google
[Ed:so this is a big thing , imagine that firebird will be available to every kid or school there , also in Brazil they will have linux on ~50,000,000 desktops for kids , what we need now is some good translated books and documentation]
Firebird Gets the Eye of the Sphinx- full-text search engine
Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out.
It’s an great search engine used a lot in the LAMP world So now for example if you create and phpbb site with firebird back end , you can use sphinx for indexing and fast search. Another idea is : use it to index the whole database if you have large quantities of text and you need to search for keywords (an movie comments database for example)
Cathedron+Firebrid = Winners of RAD Race 2008/2009
The combination of Cathedron and Firebird competed and won two times: this year and in 2004. During the 14 hour race a team of two people solve a realistic business problem.
The productivity during the race is about 10 minutes per function point. In large software companies the best projects require 6 to 10 hours per function point. This implies a 60 times higher productivity during the race. When the extreme conditions of the race are normalized and you triple the amount of time to fine tune and test the deliverables, the productivity is still 5 to 10 times higher.
The combination of Cathedron and Firebird allowed the team to rapidly create and change the basic application and the underlying database. During the 14 hour race over 70 small modifications where made to a database containing valuable test data! 99% of those changes were handled by Cathedron simply by changing the data model.
Cathedron can be downloaded from www.cathedron.com and is free for personal and educational use. Although the tool and documentation are still under development, the core features such as information/data modeling, (default) screen generation and the embedded Pascal scripts have been used in production environments for over 8 years.
Development of ODBC 2.0 driver for FB has resumed
You can find new beta builds of the ODBC 2.0 driver here.
Note: If you are using Firefox, remember to scroll down the page opened by the above link or you will not find the information.
NEW: Sinática Monitor Beta
The first public beta for Sinática Monitor has just been uploaded.
More information and links can be found here.
Database Workbench Pro 3.2.0 released
Ladies, gentlemen,
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tool: Database Workbench Pro 3.2
Changes Highlights in 3.2
– Sybase SQL Anywhere support
– Firebird 2.1 support
– Microsoft SQL Server 2008 support
– Oracle 11g support
– Many enhancements and bug fixes…
New Feature Highlights in 3.0 and 3.1
FirebirdConfig is now Open Source
FirebirdConfig is an utility to help people to configure the parameters available in firebird.conf file. Now, anyone can join the project and help with the development. The language used is Delphi/Kylix.
CakePHP RC3 – The RC of Triumph!
It’s finally here: the final release before the final release of
CakePHP 1.2 [ED:Tested and works just fine with Firebird 2.1]
Some of you may remember the benchmarks posted by Rasmus Lerdorf, in
which CakePHP did not perform so well. We can all debate Rasmus’ due
diligence (or lack of), but what was clear was that we had some
catching up to do. Over the past few weeks, Larry has worked
tirelessly on iteration after iteration of performance improvements,
and now we’re faster than ever before. By itself, the bootstrap
process is over 10x faster than RC2, and basic requests for static
content are now about 5x faster overall.
