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!
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The site of the Firebird Developers Day’s 10th edition is now up and running. Interested people can already subscribe on-line to the conference.Spread the news and come to comemorate the 10th anniversary of the biggest Firebird Conference in the world.
PS: FDD is a Brazilian conference for the Portuguese speakers community. |
The manual for isql has been hugely updated, tidied up and is now online at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/isql.html for the html and at http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/Firebird-isql.pdf for the pdf version.If you get an older version that document 0.5 then the cache needs to be flushed.
It’s still not fully complete, but it’s a lot further down the line than before.
Cheers,
Norm.—
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Thank you Norman, for the excellent work!
A new survey from EvansData about Software Development Tools mentions Firebird among the preferred Database choices. You can participate in the survey (and win points to trade for prizes later) accessing http://surveys.evansdata.com/20130220.php
Hi,
If anyone is interested … new version of Gbak Scheduler has been uploaded to the site https://sites.google.com/site/gbakscheduler/
What is new in version 1.0.11:
- Added per-task option to use Service Manager when performing backup.
- Added per-task option to run actions (custom programs or scripts) before and after execution of backup.
- Adden per-task option for sending an email with error details when there is an error in executing backup task.
About Gbak Scheduler:
GBAK Scheduler is an Interbase / Firebird backup utility that performs regular database backups with a user defined strategy. It is Windows service application. It has been in use since 1997.Best regards,
Simon
Idiorm, a lightweight nearly-zero-configuration object-relational mapper and fluent query builder for PHP5, has been adapted to work with Firebird: https://github.com/j4mie/idiorm/issues/98
Thanks to Mauricio Pistiner for the note!
Hello,
i’ve ported the JDBC Driver to Android and published this on
https://sourceforge.net/projects/androidjaybird/Maybe this is something you might be interestetd in
Best regards, Christian Mayer
The guys from HardSoft TV Show covered the last edition of the Firebird Developers Day. The matter went on air at 29/December, and can be viewed online in YouTube. Audio is in Portuguese, but you can check nice images from the place, public, etc 
Port Guardian is a [free] Linux GTK program with GUI to monitor the Firebird Database Server and databases, to check instantly if they are in operation Alive/Dead, Up/Down; and listen/monitor/record the in/out tcp packets on the set net IP and Port.
The basic difference between Port Guardian and most other Net/Port monitoring software is that it is rather a Net/Port security guardian than a net/port traffic controller/statistician. Port Guardian’s major concern is not the bottleneck of the net traffic, but rather WWW — who, when, what has been done on the concerned IP/Port, and will record it to a database to keep it as a history forever; though the packet is as brief as a shadow and gone even before fully shown (size-cut). And as a by-the-way function it can also set alive an instant alarm when user-set critical/sensitive word/phrase is found during the listening/monitoring/recording. Of course it won’t set you on alarm, I hope. In the TO-DO list is kod (kiss-of-death) or tcpkill to terminate a dangerous tcp connection when a hi-alarm is triggered…
More here.
A post with the title “Developers are not to be trusted” in the TPersistent.com blog is getting lots of “move to Firebird” in its comments. Do you agree? Read it and comment.
