FirebirdNews wish a really Nice Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all the Firebird people, specially developers and supporters!
2009 will be a cool year, with the release of FB 2.5 and the first betas of 3.0 showing up! If you want to send a XMas gift to the project, you can do this right now contributing with the Firebird Foundation 😉
Go Firebird!
The Firebird Team is pleased to offer the second round of Linux, Win32 and MacOSX release candidate kits for Firebird 2.0.5. Please refer to the Bug Fixes chapter of the release notes, test it well and report your experiences (good or bad) to the firebird-devel list.
Imabas images is a network database for amateurs as well as for professional photographers, who also defaulted desires fulfilled and your own photo archive safely in a SQL database […] For an Out-Of-The-Box will launch the software on the enclosed Firebird database.
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Looks like “Firebirdians” already have an official wine 😉 Firebird Legend, from Moldova, proved to be a really good wine, at last for the taste of some Firebird users (including myself).
Afterall, with this name, it could not be different! 🙂
People probably noticed that second alpha (or maybe first beta) of FB 2.5 is a bit delayed. The reason is that the Trace API feature is being “investigated”, and probably will be included in the next release. This is a nice feature first developed by RedSoft, allowing to “log” everything that is taking place in the Firebird server.
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the closing session of CodeRage (an intl on-line conference done by Embarcadero/CodeGear):
The Closing Keynote was given by Embarcadero CEO Wayne Williams and was very interesting[…]Two noticeable things. First, an official reference to Firebird as a database they want to invest to. IÂ guess better Delphi connectivity and DatabaseGear support might come to this database, but it is just my speculation.
The Firebird and the Tracker site is temporary off-line, due to a malicious attack at the weekend. People are working to put it online again asap.
Which of the following databases have you used most often THIS YEAR?
The above question is in the newest Evans Data survey, about Open Source tools, and Firebird is one of the listed choices. You can vote now.
IBSurgeon just released the newest version of its Firebird server monitoring tool, FBScanner, with several new features. Read more here. Brazilians can take a look here too.
Habanero is a free open source Enterprise Application Framework, supporting Object Relational Mapping (ORM). A set of class definitions describe how to persist data between object oriented code and a relational database backend. Firestarter is a modelling tool included with the Habanero download that manages the class definitions and allows you to reverse engineer the class definitions from an existing database.
Habanero currently supports data persistence to MySQL, Access, Sql Server, Oracle, SQLite, PostGreSQL, and more recently, Firebird. Due to popular demand, the Firestarter modeller has now been enhanced with the ability to reverse engineer from Firebird as well.
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