Author: Cantu

I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!

FDD – Russian invasion

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Continuing with the series of reports about Firebird Developers Day, our Russian friends just arrived to Piracicaba. In the picture, from left to right, is Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon), me and Dmitry Yemanov (his girlfriend on the side). After 17h flight, they were ready to take the second breakfast of the day 😉 Michael Philippenko (FastReports) was there too, but doesn’t appear in the picture.

Tomorrow, both Dmitries will do special Master Class Firebird sessions to selected people.

Firebird 2.5 Alpha 1

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The Firebird Team is pleased to let loose the first Alpha of Firebird 2.5, more or less feature-complete and ready to field-test. Kits are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux. So – please test it well and report your experiences (good or bad) to the firebird-devel list.

Do make a point of studying the release notes (available on-line and also in the download kits) as V.2.5 is to be a macro release introducing the architecture that will progress into Firebird 3 as full support for fine-grained multi-threading and SMP.

FDD – getting ready for the conference

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Next saturday (19/July), we will have the 5th edition of the Firebird Developers Day conference in Brazil. This is the biggest Firebird conference (regarding number of attendees) in the world. This year, there will be around 580 attendees in the conference, and if you dream about how would be to organize such big conference, the picture below can give you an idea: 600 folders, assembled in 3h30 by four “experienced” people (yeh, we work fast) 😉 Each folder contains a mousepad, pen, magazine, sponsor papers, CD, etc.

In the next days, I plan to post some reports and videos about the conference preparatives, etc. Stay tuned to FirebirdNews 😉

FDD is organized by FireBase.

Vote in our new poll!

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What is the language most used in your Firebird apps?

Two years ago we asked the same question. Now it is time to repeat it and see if (and how) the scenary changed. You just need to go to the mainpage of FirebirdNews and vote. Your answer will help us to find what are the major languages being used to code applications that uses Firebird as the DB engine.

DB Master beta1 released

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DBMaster is a tool for working with multiple database servers and multiple databases. Sometimes it is much easier to work using a set of commands than working with wizards. DBMaster has a command language which can be used for copying Tables, Views, etc from one database to another.

The Darwin Race of Languages

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The Darwin Race of Languages is a “competition” started by Bart Roozendaal to check what programming language is better. It seems that they will choose a kind of application that need to be developed, and participants will use the language of their choice to code it, and in the end, they will choose which one is better.

Anyway, the reason I’m posting this here is that among the topics being discussed to decide what kind of application will be developed, there is a Firebird tool.

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