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Building firebird extension for #php 5.3.x on windows

September 28, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Short notes on how to compile Firebird extension (called interbase) on Windows 32 bit (the same ideas can be used for 64 bit too)
I have used Visual Studio c++ compiler 2008 (aka Vsc 9)
ps:
By default php developers on windows don’t have the firebird extension enabled in php 5.3.0 and the required dll (fbclient)
we try to fix that the vodoo spell is to ~~kill one~~ compile firebird stable with vsc9 and send them the instructions how to do ~~the kill~~ compiling but we have the recipe for that too and maybe we can ~~kill~~ compete with microsoft sql server on windows too if they let us

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“The memory barrier” – post mentions Firebird

September 25, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

Wings of Wind blog just posted the results of polls about Delphi 64bits and 4GB support. In the workarounds section, he mentions Firebird:

Use the 64-bit version of Firebird configured to keep the data in memory. It has the advantage that you have a full blown 64-bit SQL server (so, no AWE paging etc.) […]

Read the full post.

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FirebirdNews – Now integrated with OpenID, etc.

September 25, 2009 Cantu 5 comments

Now, if you have an account with Google, OpenID, Yahoo or Blogger, you can login and post comments to FirebirdNews without the need to create a local account! This simplifies a lot the login/account handling process, and I hope we will start to see much more comments to the posts!

To use the new feature, just click the “log in” link (at the SideBar “Meta” section) and choose what provider you wanna use.

If you already have a local FirebirdNews account, sign-in using your local username/password, edit your profile, and use the option to link your local account to any of the supported log-in providers, and you are done!

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IBDeveloper magazines now on-line

September 24, 2009 Cantu One comment

From Firebird Surgeon blog:

As you know, IBSurgeon was a publisher of “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” (or shortly IBDeveloper) in 2005 and 2006. There were 4 issues which attracted a lot of interest (up to 20000 of readers) but at that time there was no way to monetize it, so IBSurgeon decided to close the magazine as a redundant line of business.

Now we’ve put all issues of IBDeveloper to Scribd for easy reading and full text search indexing. You know, there are still “all times greatest hits” articles and materials (like one regarding locking in Firebird by Ann W. Harrison in Issue 2).

Read full post and check the magazines here.

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FirebirdNews – adding interactivity

September 24, 2009 Cantu 8 comments

I have updated the FirebirdNews site with two new WordPress plugins, allowing people to reply comments, and vote for posts. Both options are very easy to use, and probably you already noticed how to use them 😉

The intention is that FirebirdNews readers also participate/interact with the site. Go on! Vote for your preferred posts, and don’t hesitate to post comments if you think you have something to say!

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Firebird 2.1.3 packages for #Ubuntu #Dapper are ready

September 24, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

After many fights ubuntu dapper package is ready into stable ppa

It’s less and less fun to built it for dapper , i don’t know if anyone is using it , maybe on the next release i will not upload to it anymore , or maybe i keep it who knows, I need some feedback or to get the download count from launchpad

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#dcm4che can be installed on Firebird

September 24, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

dcm4che is a collection of open source applications and utilities for healthcare IT. These applications have been developed in the Java programming language for performance and portability.
Here are the Firebird instructions

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Firebird,the sexy RDBMS ;-)

September 23, 2009 Cantu 2 comments

Dr. Dobbs published a review of the new Delphi 2010, and mentions the new official support for Firebird:

RAD Studio 2010 database drivers have also been updated to support the latest well-known name SQL DBMS’s including IBM DB2 8, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MySQL 5.1 and Oracle 11g. Also added to this release is support for the sexy, high-performance, open-source Firebird 1.5 RDBMS, showing that Embarcadero is hip with the times by not standing idle with just supporting updates for the entrenched players.

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