New conferences page
The main Firebird site now has a page dedicated for listing future conferences and seminars. You can check it here.
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!
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.
Vanatec now supports FB 2.0
VANATEC – Object-Relational Mapping for .NET – now supports Firebird 2.0 with VS 2005.
Firebird FAQ
New site about Firebird is up:
Firebird FAQ is an online repository of 300+ answers to frequently,and not so frequently asked questions about the Firebird database management system (DBMS). This growing Q&A collection is a built by Firebird users, for Firebird users. All FirebirdFAQ editors have been using Firebird in various projects since the first versions showed up for download. While most of the contents are written from our personal experience, there are also bits collected from various online forums, mailing lists or websites.
Firebird at EKON11 Conference in September
Firebird is to have a two-part slot in this year’s Entwickler Konferenz in Frankfurt, Germany. EKON runs in parallel with the all-Europe Codegear (Borland) Developer Conference at the end of September, but our presenter, Thomas Steinmaurer, assures us that this double session will be pure Firebird, unfettered by any requirement to merge tracks with any Codegear products.
More information about 5th International Firebird Conference
5th Worldwide Firebird Conference 2007
18.-20. Oct in Hamburg Germany
www.firebird-conference.com
US$ 1.3K donated to Firebird Foundation
Slides from FDD talks
The new edition of the Brazilian DB FreeMagazine was released today and contains all the slides from the 4th Firebird Developers Day conference. Download is free.
Firebird – double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!
From InfoWorld:
SourceForge unveils the winners of the ‘open-source Oscars’
“…The Firebird relational database was another double winner, being voted both best project for the enterprise and the project providing the best user support.”
Congratulations for all who made this possible: The Firebird Project and all the people who voted!
Read full article here.