When Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon) spoke at FDD a few weeks ago, he shown the results of his recent tests creating a 1 TB (yes, ONE TERABYTE) database with Firebird!
It was really cool to know that FB can handle such beast! A more detailed report about this will be public available in August. Keep checking FirebirdNews!
Hi,
I’ve been working on an improved plug-in for wireshark (previously known as ethereal) and have produced a “Wire Protocol Specification” as a byproduct.
From my preliminary reading of news groups, etc., several people have asked for this kind of information. It’s not complete, it’s not correct but it’s better than anything else I have been able to find.
It should go in your Documentation and Papers section.
Regards,
Mark Chambers
Adriano has done some tests with the Firebird Protocol behavior in high latency (aka. Internet), and posted the results in his new blog. Worth reading!
Note: If you check the Firebird tracker, you will notice that the most voted feature right now is “improvent of the network protocol”. You can vote there too, to raise the priority even more.
During the Brazilian 6th Firebird Developers Day on-line subscription process, attendees had the chance to donate money to the Firebird Foundation. Also, in the conference day, people was able to donate any amount of money.
Today, the collected money (USD 1.250) was sent to the Foundation, as can be seen here.
Thanks for all the donors!
Nor the global crisis nor the pig influenza was enough to affect the success of the 6th edition of the Firebird Developers Day Conference in Brazil! About 480 people where there, and you can check report (in English) and pictures here.
Last Saturday was the day to assemble the 500 folders that every FDD attendee will receive. Vlad Khorsun and Dmitry Kouzmenko (international speakers) will arrive in São Paulo in the next few minutes. Last time I meet them personaly was in Italy, in the last FB Intl. Conference.
Btw, I wish to thanks IBSurgeon for sponsoring Vlad flight tickets!
“Late” people can still subscribe to the conference until tomorrow.
500 FDD folders
BTW, will we have an International FB Conference this year?
Dmitry Kuzmenko posted in his blog an “interesting” situation detected with the use o gbak + Firebird 1.5 + Local protocol. Read it here.
Firebird is known to be slow when used with Internet connections. Firebird 2.1 already brought to us an improved communication protocol, but we need an even faster protocol. If you consider this an important feature, please vote for it to raise its priority.
Firebird was selected to participate in this year Source Forge Community Choice Awards in three categories:
Click here to vote for Firebird, it is quick and easy!
In the most recent EDN – Embarcadero Developer Network community newsletter, they announce their official participation in the 6th Firebird Developers Day, with a special session about Delphi Future, including official Firebird support in the built-in dbExpress driver.
People subscribed to EDN are receiving by email the following information:
4 de Junho – 6º Firebird Developers Day
A Embarcadero participará da sexta edição do Firebird Developers Day, no dia 04/Julho, em Piracicaba-SP. O maior evento dedicado ao Firebird no mundo terá a presença especial de Vlad Khorsun, membro do Core Development Team do Firebird. Andreano Lanusse palestrará sobre o Futuro do Delphi, apresentando, entre outras novidades, o suporte oficial do dbExpress ao Firebird. Esta é a última semana para se inscrever! Utilize o cupom de desconto EMBT15 e tenha R$ 15 de desconto na inscrição! Os participantes poderão adquirir componentes e ferramentas com descontos incríveis. Acesse agora: www.FirebirdDevelopersDay.com.br
