IBPP/Flamerobin license hopefully solved
The IBPP License 1.0 had problems with Debian. Looking at http://www.ibpp.org/license however I see a different license.
To me it looks like Expat, with the following changes:
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
Idea for one application build around firebird
Seems to be the blog of the day :
More & more I want to write the issue/requirements tracker that has been in my head for so long. I would write it in either java, php or Ruby on Rails. I would put an embedded firebird database behind it. Now, I have to get people to believe that they should let me do this at work. I am too damn old and tired to do it at home in my oh so copious spare time.
[ED: He does have other nice blog posts with firebird]
SAS software and Firebird Vulcan
“This paper describes the architecture and requirements for implementing a relational, transaction-based storage mechanism in SAS software, a commercial business intelligence product that uses the Vulcan code base in an embedded mode.”
By Tom Cole, Platform R&D, SAS Institute Inc. (From the Firebird Conference Prague 2005). (.zip of two pdfs). Right click and save as to read.
New Firebird Developers’ Journal Starts
Dmitry Yemanov launches a Developers’ Journal where you can catch the latest comments from the core developers about how things are going.
Building Firebird 1.5 on Windows
You can read this how to
FlameRobin whitepaper
it was recently concluded that the original authors have the copyright
on papers that were published at the Firebird Conference, so I decided
to make my paper available to the public.
Some small portion of the text is outdated (based on version 0.4.0),
but you can read about history and basic ideas around the project:
http://www.flamerobin.org/flamerobin_paper.pdf
Thanks,
Milan
Oracle-mode Firebird was presented at Developer’s GigaCon in Warsaw
Oracle-mode Firebird was presented at Developer’s GigaCon in Warsaw
http://www.konferencje.software.com.pl/devcon2006/pl/index.php
Some 400 people were present.
I’ve placed the visuals at:
http://www.firebirdnews.org/docs/papers/fyracle_wsw.pdf
They are herewith in the public domain. Use whatever part you might
like in your own presentations.
Paul
Calling Stored Procedures from Stored Procedures
Proper handling of the return values when calling a stored procedure from another stored procedure can be tricky. Here is the overview of the syntax.
The Big Secret of the OpenSource Community
Several months ago I have written article about Firebird for
Bosnian IT magazine INFO.
Here you can read original text (Bosnian language, scanned pages), and also English translation (HTML)
Contributed by Fikret Hasovic on fyracle.org website
MySQL joins Eclipse
Also, open source database provider MySQL on Monday announced it has joined Eclipse as an Add-in Provider member. MySQL plans to contribute to the Eclipse Data Tools Platform project and collaborate with Zend Technologies and others on the proposed Eclipse PHP IDE project.
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