Solving issues
Posted by Dimitrios Ioannidis in FB-General list:
I would like to show you how hard the Core Developers are working (as if you don’t know that already … ).
A little graph for you ….
http://tinyurl.com/yt5pgl
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!
Big company using FB
This was posted by Roman Rokytskyy in the Firebird .Net Provider list:
Some time ago I have upgraded my phone contract to include also mobile internet (5GB/month) and as a normal user read the instructions on the o2 website, which suggested to install the “o2 Connection Manager” software. I installed it, but then got some device driver problems with another similar software (Vodafone Mobile Connect – I have two mobiles, one private and one from my company) and had to go deeper…
I have to confess that I did not notice the Firebird on the first check (hmmm… how could it be? should smell it from 1 km distance!), but the folder structure appeared somewhat familiar… But then I noticed the intl/ directory, then the .NET Provider DLL and finally fbembed.dll.
Considering 11 million customers in Germany, and guessing that only 1% of them uses mobile internet we get about 100 000 installations of Firebird embedded + .NET Provider. And that’s only in Germany (think about the number of installations of Telefonica O2 Europe worldwide)!
Congratulations! Keep up with good job!
Silver sponsorship
From the Firebird Foundation blog:
Today we received a nice cheque from David Culbertson, of CounterWorks Inc., Colorado, U.S.A., to renew the company’s silver sponsorship for a year. Thank you, CounterWorks!
Let me remind that anyone can contribute with the Foundation (with any value) and help the project to move faster and strongly.
Lazarus review in Linux.org
Lazarus, like Delphi, is mainly aimed at programmers who want to provide a GUI to manipulate data. And like Delphi, Lazarus also does this very well and perhaps better, since it is able to manipulate data using more database engines – both open source and proprietary. These include, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird and even MSSQL. There is even the possibility of using dBase and FoxPro tables.
Read complete article here.
New Evans Data Survey mentions Firebird
A new survey from Evans Data, targeting software developers, mentions Firebird as one of the answers for the following question:
Which of the following databases are you currently using?
You can answer the survey here, and participate in a US$ 500 prize draw.
Accessing Interbase/Firebird Metadata in Delphi
Post in Steve’s Delphi blog:
I was looking at some old Delphi 7 code of mine when I was attempting to get in behind the scenes of Interbase and Firebird tables and fields to learn a little more about them. I came across these little pieces of information I’d like to share.
Check the full post here.
Cross-Platform Development with Free Pascal 2.2.0
Article published in OsNews mentions Firebird:
“…As remarked earlier on, Free Pascal is shipped with the RTL and FCL code libraries. The FCL comes with components for accessing databases such as Oracle, Firebird, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL and any ODBC enabled database”.
Read more here.
New conferences page
The main Firebird site now has a page dedicated for listing future conferences and seminars. You can check it here.
Looking for documentation?
Many people doesn’t know that Firebird official site has a lot of good articles/docs . You just need to dig a little bit, or go straight to this page. There you will find really cool articles and even old stuff, like IB 6 manuals, etc.
Running Firebird Embeded Database in .NET 2
Blog post shows how to use FB Embedded with Microsoft .NET 2.