Due to an incompatibility between WordPress 2.9.x, I had to disable temporarily the RPX plugin, responsible for enabling the login of users at FirebirdNews using OpenID, Google, etc. accounts.
The bug was holding new posts to be added to the site. I will re-enable the plugin as soon this get fixed. If you need to login at the site, you will need to have a local account.
Philippe Makowski wrote a nice article comparing the performance of Firebird database on different linux file systems.
Don’t believe benchmarks made by someone other than yourself !
Read it here.
Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉
From FB events page:
Coming up in 2010 :: Firebird’s 10th birthday, July 31
Watch this space for details of events as plans evolve.
We are glad to announce that we now support Firebird as backend. The good news for us is that it just took 4 hours to get it working and even with the 100% of the tests in green.
OpenDBX supports Firebird since a lot of time but we didn’t have too much time to try it. I wanted to “give a hand” to Norbert generating all dlls for each new release. I didn’t have ever used Firebird neither Sybase. So, I started with Firebird and now it is working like a charm.
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We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!
MySQL is used in most segments of the fragmented open source database market, including the Web app space, (along with SQLite), the desktop space (along with Firebird), and in the embedded market.
Read full article at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.
StackOverflow will publish ads for free (only for Open Source projects.) I have made an image for Firebird but lacked rights/points to upload it. Douglas uploaded it, but we need more votes to put the spotlight over our bird. If you have an account in StackOverflow with at last 15 reputation points, please, vote now.
Carlos
The Firebird Atkins NewsServer, the FB tracker and the website are temporary down and will come back in a few days. If you need to download Firebird installers, go direct to sourceforge.
Hello,
I’d like to announce the first public release of fbclient, a binding of the Firebird client library to the Lua language, that is, a collection of pure Lua modules that allows you to connect and execute queries against the Firebird Relational Database.
Project website: http://code.google.com/p/fbclient/
