GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 08 and Embedded DB Selector for Base
New GSOC update for the previous week
It’s now possible to select the driver to use for embedded databases within Base thanks to the new selector
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
Using Jaybird with Firebird 3.0 alpha 1
Mark Rotteveel wrote on Firebird Java list :
I have started a page on the Jaybird wiki on using Jaybird with Firebird
3.0 alpha 1:
http://jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org/jaybird/doku.php?id=tip:firebird30a1
It lists know problems, compatibility issues and workarounds between
Jaybird 2.2.x and earlier and Firebird 3 (alpha 1).
It is a work in progress, but I hope to have all the basics listed by
Sunday. If you miss something, or something doesn’t work for you with
Firebird 3, let me know.
Mark
GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 07 and driver Dialect is now 3 by default
New GSOC update for the previous week : Plenty of mountains conquered this week, also some useful work done …
Also default dialect is now 3 for the Firebird SDBC driver
http://www.ahunt.org/2013/07/firebirds-dialects/
Firebird, Angularjs, Node and Socket.IO – Part 1
John Tomaselli wrote on his blog about his main stack:
I’m going to post my latest project I’m working on and will go back to publish some older works that might be of interest to the community. About a year ago I attended an AngularJS meetup at Google’s NY office and since then have completely changed my development stack. Angular is an awesome approach to developing client side web applications and has truly changed my development life. Of course I needed a back end that supported Firebird. This is where Nodejs comes in and helps explain the gap between posts as it’s taken some time to become proficient with all these new developments. There is a lot to learn and fortunately for those just jumping in, the resources since I began are maturing at a rapid rate (see pluralsight training, eggheadio, books etc) .
The Main Stack:
- Angularjs.org
- Firebirdsql.org
- Nodejs.org
- socketio
- express
Firebird Transaction Simulator
The transaction simulator uses either scripts or random commands to simulate the Firebird database versioning system and the result of the simulator are checked with Firebird’s outputs. Read committed and Snapshot transactions are presented. Some remarks about long transactions and Firebird slowdown caused by transactions
Firebird Node.js Example with AngularJS
For the moment only the code , soon we will have also a blogpost about it
This is a complete demonstration of express.io, passport, passport.socketio, firebird sql and angular.
GSOC 2013: LibreOffice Firebird SQL Connector Integration Status
You can follow the GSOC 2013 LibreOffice Firebird connector blog with it’s initial post and follow up
Also on LibreOffice devel list there is a LibreOffice Firebird integration thread.
The git log is hosted on feature/firebird-sdbc branch in libo tree.
Update: A weekly status was posted for previous week
Firebird as backend in LibreOffice status
Protocol optimization (status update)
I got the following status update from Dmitry Yemanov, regarding the Firebird’s protocol enhancement task that is being sponsored by FDD:
I’m working on it from time to time. One of the TODO items is completed,
one more improvement came to mind and now it’s being tested. So it’s
surely will be available in FB3, at some point after Alpha 1 but before
Beta 1.
I think this is good news!
Windows Azure Web Sites and Firebird
Jiří Činčura wrote about his experience with Firebird Embedded and Azure Websites
To sum up. Firebird Embedded works well in Windows Azure Websites. If you need fully featured SQL database for zero extra-money with option to go hassle-free to full server if the need comes, it’s a way to go.