Music/Book/Movie Label uses Firebird
The three media catalog softwares from CodeAero uses Firebird 2.1 as database engine.
Author: Cantu
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What to expect from next Delphi versions? (good news to Firebird)
Extracted from the special edition of Blaze Pascal magazine:
Project Weaver (próxima versão do Delphi, já em beta)
- Main Themes
- User Experience
- Enhance Connectivity
- Documentation
- IDE usability
- Team Productivity
- Touch
- IDE – Insight (easy Keyboard access to almost everything)
- Improvements to DataSnap
- Firebird Support
- .NET AOP
- SCM Support
- Enhanced RTTI Support
- Attribute Support
- Seamless .NET and Native communication
- Windows 7 APIs and Direct 2D
- Full Support of SOAP 1.2 Clients
Project X
- Cross-platform Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
- Cross-platform component library
- DataSnap on all platforms
Project Chromium
- Quality enhancements
- Pascal Code Formatter
- Documentation of the OTA
- New Data binding model allowing binding to almost any property on a control
- More integration with the database tools.
Project Commodore
- 64 Bit native
- Full compiler, RTL and VCL support for 64 native
- Multi-Core. Multi-threaded applications.
How to obtain a list of tables, views and columns
Bernardo Giovanni posted in his blog an article (in Italian) explaining how to retrieve a list of tables, views and columns from a Firebird database.
New version of Firebird Config tool
A new version (0.2.0.34) of Firebird Config tool has been released. Changes and downloads can be found here, and resumed as:
- Support for parameter OldSetClauseSemantics of Firebird 2.5.
- Added SpinEdits where the value must be numeric.
- Added some new options in preferences on the environment.
Next Delphi will have official Firebird support
Read this and a lot of news about the next Delphi version(s) at Rob’s Technology Corner
FDD – último dia para se inscrever por R$ 79
Only for Brazilians:
Atenção! Hoje é o último dia para se inscrever no Firebird Developers Day antes da mudança de preço.
Inscreva-se agora pagando apenas R$ 79,00!
IBO “roadmap”
After a long “winter”, Jason Wharton (IBObjects author) has posted in IBO support list his plans for the next IBO releases. Check it out:
All,
I just released a new beta version of IBO. I put it in all file areas this time.
Mostly I just finished up converting the rest of the packages I had not yet converted to D2009 and I fixed a couple of the bugs on my plate. The goal of this version is to make the legacy version of IBO work in D2009 but much will remain to make it work as ideal as it should.
As soon as I knock out the remaining bugs I plan to fix and get the installer working for D2009 I will start working on IBO 5. It will be overhauled to work exclusively with Delphi 2009.
I will continue to merge fixes into the 4.x branch of source for all those not using D2009.
So, essentially, I have determined it will be best to maintain two separate source bases from then on. One to support prior versions of Delphi and one to focus on all future versions of Delphi that is extensively overhauled. Of course I will have to put together some kind of an application migration kit as well for when you want to make the jump from 4.x to 5.x.
I’m open to comments and suggestions.
Regards,
Jason Wharton
Time to nominate Firebird for CCA 2009
The time for nominating Firebird for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards has arrived! Firebird already won several categories in 2007, now let’s try to repeat it again! Click the button below and fill the nomination form. I suggest to nominate Firebird for the following categories:
- Best Project
- Best Tool or Utility for Developers
- Best Project for the Enterprise
Firebird Embedded reviewed
I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfil the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system. Here are some great features of the Firebird embedded database version:
Are Commercial Databases Worth It?
The post mentions Firebird.