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Bergamo – the end

September 28, 2008 Cantu 3 comments

Yesterday was the final day of the Intl. Firebird Conference, in Bergamo. It was really a great time, and it is always good to meet with Firebird friends. I guess this personal contact is very important for the team, and the yearly conferences is the right place to put many of the core developers together and have lots of good conversation, beer wine and fun!

I would like to thanks P-Soft (Fabio) who organized this year conference. This is not an easy task, but everything was perfect. Thanks!

I hope to meet many of you again in the next year. Go Firebird!

Carlos H. Cantu

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Pictures of Intl. Firebird Conference 2008

September 25, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

You can find some of my pictures of the conference in my Picasaweb album 😉

Looks like Marijn is blogging about it too.

I have blogged about it in my pesonal blog, but it is portuguese only, sorry 😉

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Only 3 days for the International Firebird Conference

September 22, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

The Firebird International Conference 2008 will start at 25/September, in Bergamo, Italy.

What? Still didn’t register? Hurry up, there is still time!

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Debian Package of the Day: FlameRobin: A GUI to Administer Firebird/Interbase SQL servers

September 21, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Article submitted by Anton Kavalenka.

Firebird SQL server is popular because it is free, open, lightweight and secure. Firebird is based on the Interbase SQL server, and can be accessed by the same client libraries.

FlameRobin is a X-platform GUI application that makes the life of Firebird/Interbase admins easier. It’s a very light-weight solution (implemented with wxWidgets) as opposed to Tora, which tries to be universal, but is very huge and takes a while to load. FlameRobin starts almost instantly, but being lightweight doesn’t mean to be poor in features. Some of them are:

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fb_mhash 1.2.01 released

September 17, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

fb_mhash is a UDF library for Firebird/Interbase. It implements an interface to the mhash library (libmhash). It support hash, hmac, and key generation algorithms, such as SHA1, MD5, MCRYPT, and S2K_SALTED. It support BLOB data.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
The dependency on the Firebird library was removed.

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FBCon 08 – 25-26-27 september – Bergamo – Italy

September 16, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

You CAN’T miss FBCon 08 – 6th Firebird International Conference that will be held in Bergamo from 25 to 27 september. Conference will be from thursday september 25 till saturday Every day have a special theme with best italian and worldwide firebird-world expert!
Here some of our sessions, for a detail go to www.firebirdconference.net:

Italian sessions :

CTE e query ricorsive
Database per sysdba – avanzato
Database per sysdba – base
Database per sysdba – web
Delphi, DBExpress e Firebird
delphi4php e Firebird
GO: Gestionale Open
ISAPI
Php e Firebird
SQL and Firebird
SQL enhancements in FB 2.5
Sw-ing
vTiger

english sessions:

10 ways to backup FB database
Common Table Expressions : tutorial
Delphi and Firebird
Developing Firebird apps for pocketpc/smartphone clients
Execute block e trigger (database)
Fb{Ref?}Doc – the Firebird Documentation project
Fire in The Lamp – FireTube an example for scaling Firebird on web2.0
Firebird 2.5 Architecture
Firebird Development in 2008/2009
Firebird in real time applications
Firebird on Linux – advanced topics
Firebird on Linux – basics
Firebird Stored Procedures in Depth
Firebird, tools and Linux distribution integration
Installing Firebird with your application under Windows
Introduction to development with Firebird and Python
Know what is happening in your database and server
Managing recursive data structures (trees) with Firebird
Migrating from MSSQL and mySQL to Firebird
Practical Guide to the Garbage Collection
Query optimization – how to speed up COUNT(*) function
Replication for a high availability infrastructure
Security in Firebird: 2.1, 2.5, 3.0
Separating web development from database logic
Service Oriented Architecture with Firebird
SQL: Migliorare e ottimizzare le prestazioni
Stored procedures
The Firebird System Tables
Towards a REST architecture with Delphi and Firebird
Transactions In Your Applications
Ultimate Vmware Appliance – Ubuntu and Firebird
Updating Database structures
Using embedded Firebird with .NET
Working with Firebird in Python

To REGISTER go to www.firebirdconference.net

Also note that 24-th September at the same place, before the Conference, there will be FREE IBSurgeon seminar:

Introduction
Firebird database recovery and protection against corruptions
How to find and solve performance problem in Firebird with IBSurgeon products
Replication with IBReplicator
Using dbFile

p.s. I will be there. My wife told me that I must taste native pizza, pasta, cappuchino, etc.

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Running Plastic on Ubuntu and Firebird

September 16, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

What would you think is harder to do? Run a .NET Client/Server application through mono on Linux or install Ubuntu on Microsoft’s Virtual PC?

Here is the long answer

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