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FirebirdDB driver for Codeigniter 2.0 is released Finally!

October 22, 2010 mariuz 2 comments

Here is the announcement on Codeigniter Forums

I have developed a FirebirdDB driver for Codeigniter 2.0
you can get it at BitBucket here

Code Igniter seems to be a cool PHP framework

CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks. In a critical take on PHP frameworks in general, PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke at frOSCon in August 2008, noting that he liked CodeIgniter “because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework”.

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Be Free Romanian version : In Autumn we count the buds: Firebird 2.5

October 22, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

It’s hard to translate the sentence but the main idea is in Autumn you get all the rewards for a full year work (if you work in agriculture)
The article is in Romanian and is on one of the best portals for Free Software (Translated Be Free)
You can try reading using the google translate.

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Delta Quadrant: Horizons

October 21, 2010 Cantu 7 comments

From Sergey Mereutsa (posted to fb-devel):

Dear friends!

While it is an offtopic here, but it may be interesting for all, who is in any form involved in Firebird development.

Several years ago, we announced a web-based game, written in Firebird SQL. It was DQ:Empires and a lot of peoples around the world played this game.

Now, I`m pleased to announce next game, in the same game universe, but slightly other – Delta Quadrant: Horizons, a web-based space 4X strategy.

I will not write much details here about the game (someone compared it with online version of Masters of Orion game, but it is not MOO2 clone) – you can read more on game`s site, http://www.dqhorizons.com/ .

Some technical details:

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Game development started in FB 2.1 and was implemented as proof of some technologies (AJAX/PHP interaction). This year we decided to port it for social networks (Russian social network Vkontakte and well-known Facebook ports complete, other follow).

We jumped (yes, it was like jump) to FB 2.5, because it allowed us interdatabase connections.

Now we implemented fully scalable architecture with one master database and some slave databases. Almost all logic are in procedures (and triggers), PHP is used to filter user`s input and format SP`s result in XML/JSON, C++ used for game turn processing – because DML does not likes arrays as language structures.

There are 80 tables and 356 procedures in master database (yes, I know, some developers has thousands procedures), slave databases has the same metadata scheme. In the worst (it is best, from other point of view) case we expect 10^9 (billion) of records in the “explored stars table”.

Currently we are using Classic architecture – it is more suitable for development, but we plan to switch on SuperClassic after game release.

I want to say big thanx to Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff for their patience – hope our private bug reports was complete and not so annoying 🙂

First huge galaxy for Facebook (and for “original” game) is named Firebird and not only contain Firebird logo on the galaxy image – galaxy stars form Firebird logo shape too. Count this as our “Mind the Bird” idea propagation.

Feel free to ask me any technical details about game implementation.

P.S.: Last time I`v announced game, written in Firebird we`v got Brazillian Alliance, which was added (“canonized”) into the game universe as Republic of Borzellia, which is one of the main forces in our another MMO game with working title “DQ: Open Space”, but this another story.

And yes, we need Firebird 3.0 for main server 😉

P.P.S. If you experience problems with IE8 and our Facebook application – just enable cookies for our domain dqhorizons.com.

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Best regards,
Sergey

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Japanese Firebird 2.5.0 installer is ready (Windows 32-bit versions)

October 20, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Japanese Firebird 2.5.0 installer is ready,
Downloads can be found on this page. Also the press release is ready.

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Do you use TIME and TIMESTAMP in your applications? The new IBProvider version will further simplify your work!

October 20, 2010 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

Have you ever lost microseconds when working with the type TIME?
Definitely, if you have ever tried to use them. In the previous versions of IBProvider, time was stored in OLE DB structure of DBTYPE_DBTIME type that does not support fractions of a second.

In the new IBProvider version, time data types have been improved. The new properties dbtime_rules and dbtimestamp_rules allow to set time storage not only in DBTIME/DBTIMESTAMP but also in WSTR and in the new type of MS SQL 2008 – DBTIME2 without losing milliseconds.

Please, read more and download new IBProvider Professional right now: Download Firebird OLE DB driver.

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FB Performance Webinar recording available

October 19, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Firebird.performance.testing

View more presentations from Mind TheFirebird.

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FB Performance webinar is going on NOW

October 19, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

From mindthefirebird :

Firebird Performance Webinar just started http://bit.ly/9KkqMj Join NOW!

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Firebird 3.0 #Debian Preliminary packaging is available in #Experimental

October 17, 2010 mariuz One comment

This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream
development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of
Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any
problems.

firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to
release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop
firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy
approaches releasable state.

Preliminary packagiing is available at
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary

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