Dmitry Yemanov will be speaking at the Firebird Developers Day. This is the first time Dmitry is coming to the Brazilian conference. Holger Klemt (HK Software/IBExpert) and Dmitri Kouzmenko (IBSurgeon) are the other international speakers that will be (once more) speaking in FDD. The one-day-conference will be held in Piracicaba-SP, at 19/July, and is organized/promoted by FireBase.
With the recent release of Firebird 2.1 final, it is time to update the “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” paper. English (PDF/HTML) and Brazilian Portuguese is already up to date (revision 1.2). You can help translating/updating the document to other languages.
[Upd] German, French and Czech versions are now updated too.
This slides are from Michael (Monty) Widenius, original MySQL author, and talks about the future of MySQL, problems, and why he thinks MySQL is not really Open Source. Interesting read to be compared with Firebird.
A bunch of news was posted to the Foundation Blogs:
| Thu 10 Apr 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Fund-raising for Website Redevelopment | Secretary |
| The fund-raising instigated by Martijn Tonies has brought in about $1,850 US in pledges, of which about $1,417 US in actual cash has been collected and held in the FF accounts as “earmarked”. In its recent meeting the committee intended to discuss what to advise about publicising Martijn’s campaign. It was on the Agenda but Alas! the item got submerged in a mountain of other business.
The web page has been moved into a public area of the main website and Martijn has been invited via the FFMembers list to come up with his ideas for moving forward with his idea. |
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| Wed 9 Apr 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Firebird Conference 2008 | Committee |
| Fabio Codebue and some colleagues have indicated that they would like to stage the 2008 Firebird International Conference in Italy, in the historic town of Bergamo, about 40 Km north-east of Milan. (Yes, it does have a funicular railway!) The current plan is to hold the conference in the Northern Autumn, from Thursday Sept 25th until Saturday 27th. There are no details yet but watch the Events page for links. | ||
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| Tue 8 Apr 2008 7:00:00 GMT | Ideas Board | Secretary |
We’ve added an “Ideas Board” to our site – a place where ideas and suggestions can be aired. Two items there to kick it off are:
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| Wed 2 Apr 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Trademark Blacklist | Committee |
| As owner of the Firebird name and trademarks, the FF is obliged to chase offenders and take whatever action is necessary to try to stop them. We are currently encountering a blatant trademark theft problem by a company in Auckland, New Zealand, which ignores our request to stop this violation of our trademark rights. We have begun a Black List of incalcitrant violators and Silicon Dream Ltd has the honour of being its first member. Let’s hope the Web search engines will help where Polite Sweet Reason fails! | ||
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| Fri 14 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Changes to Honorary Memberships | Committee |
| Carlos Guzmán Álvarez, until the end of 2007 the coordinator of the .NET Provider drivers (and their primary coder), left the project and handed responsibility over to Jiri Cincura. Carlos’ Honorary membership was thus vacated.
We are all sorry to see Carlos depart and to know that his current work takes him away from Firebird. We wish him well and thank him for his dedication to these drivers and their users, over many years. We welcome Jiri Cincura into his new role and have awarded him an Honorary membership. |
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| Fri 7 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Trademark FAQ | Committee |
| Last year Roman Rokytskyy began convening a sub-committee to develop a formal policy for the Foundation with regard to use of our Firebird trademarks. This is still work in progress, recently handicapped somewhat by the departure or absence of one or two participants. In the interim, we have added a new “Branding FAQ” page to our site and linked it from the main Firebird “Licensing/Legal” item on the top menu. | ||
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| Wed 5 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Funding for Documentation | Committee |
| The Committee has been considering how it might get some funding started to encourage the progress of the Firebird Docs sub-project. Stefan Heymann and some others have sounded out the Docs coordinator Paul Vinkenoog about the idea and everyone seems to favour it. We will try to get our heads together and figure out details. | ||
Here you will find a tutorial with screenshots prepared for those who want to see all the things we can do with OpenOffice connected to Firebird.
…we had an email problem due to an upgrade of the mail app in the server, that was avoiding us to receive any email sent to the site. The problem was detected recently so, if you tried to contact us in the past weeks/months, please send again your email since we probably missed it. Sorry for any inconvenience.
IBProvider just released an on-line manual for using its own OLEDB driver to work with Firebird or InterBase databases in Visual Studio .Net.
Posted in Firebird-Devel, by Dmitry Yemanov:
All,
The codebase will be tagged for Alpha 1 as soon as v2.0.4 RC1 and v2.1 Final are released. This means 10-15 days available to finalize the ODS changes and complete the major refactoring and synchronization efforts.
We expect only one Alpha version to be released. The next one will be Beta 1 which should be feature complete. No new ODS changes are allowed for Beta, unless some bugs would require fixing.
Besides the features already scheduled for v2.5 in the tracker, we have two features that the Foundation TTG (technical task group) has agreed to consider for this release during the Alpha stage: (1) tracing facility by Nickolay and (2) cross-database EXECUTE STATEMENT implementation by Vlad. They will be reviewed and discussed here soon, with an intention to be committed into the codebase before Beta.
Unfortunately, provided that the “external stored procedures” feature has major issues we still cannot resolve in the agreement (e.g. security and external engine API), it doesn’t seem to fit the v2.5 timeframe and is going to be postponed. Sad but true.
Comments anyone? We still have a bit of time to resolve your questions and adjust the release plan, if required. Just don’t forget that we want v2.5 to be a quick release and we’re already one month behind the schedule…
Dmitry
This is a nice article written by Felix Colibri, and includes a diagram showing the relationships among all the system tables.
Pay attention, specially if you are using old IBO versions: Dmitry Yemanov posted in Firebird-Devel list that the OldParameterOrdering setting (found in Firebird.conf) will be removed from Firebird 2.5, and OldColumnNaming will be removed in FB 3.0. Both of them were introduced as temporary solutions to compatibility problems, to give time to developers solve the issues in their applications.
