More info about Falcon
Here you can find more information about the new MySQL engine. Falcon is the new “toy” from Jim Starkey 
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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!
Firebird Developers Day site is now online!
Specially for portuguese speakers, the site of the 3rd Firebird Developers Day (due in Brazil) conference is now online. Online subscriptions will be available after 1/May. Visit the site (in portuguese) here.
Birds, Dolphins and now… Falcons (isn’t Falcon a bird?)
“At the MySQL’s fourth annual users conference, Jim Starkey, a database trailblazer with InterBase and currently a MySQL senior software architect, will discuss MySQL’s developing storage engine, code-named Falcon, said Zack Urlocker, executive vice president of marketing Cupertino, Calif.-based MySQL. The conference kicks off Monday in Santa Clara, Calif.” – Read more here.
FDD will have 3 international speakers
The 3rd Firebird Developers Day Brazilian conference will count with the presence of Holger Klemt (IBExpert), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon/IBDeveloper magazine) and Ann Harrison (IBPhoenix) as international speakers (along with many Brazilian speakers).
FDD can be a great oportunity for South American people to have contact with great names of the Firebird community, specially if they don’t want to spent a lot of money going to the International Conference (in Prague/Czech Republic).
The conference will take place in Piracicaba-SP, at 29 July (whole day).
Interesting articles
I just found two new interesting articles in “About” site:
Two-Tier or n-Tier? – What one is better for you?
The ACID Model – Discusses the ACID concept used in many databases, including Firebird.
Warning! Serious GBAK issue!
From Dmitry Yemanov – Running GBAK -C by a non-privileged user (i.e. neither SYSDBA nor database owner) causes an original database to be overwritten instead of the expected “database already exists” message.
This bug seems to be inherited from IB 6.0 and it exists in all FB versions. However, FB 2.0 is not affected due to different default restore rules.
Next version of phpBB supports Firebird
Olympus – the next version of phpBB, includes support for Firebird. phpBB is one of the most used softwares to manage discussion forums in websites. When finished, Olympus will be released as phpBB 3.0.
Small introduction on how to use MONO with Firebird
This short article explains what do you need to do to get MONO applications to work with Firebird.
Getting started with Nagios 2.1
Nagios, the premier open source network monitoring program, is celebrating its 2.1 release. With four years of development under its belt, Nagios is powerful enough to replace expensive proprietary monitoring products and become a tool your organization can’t live without. There is a FireBird plugin available for Nagios.
Oracle Accord Means Business-as-Usual
Not taking any chances, however, MySQL is also developing its own transactional storage engine and will extend its transaction support by adding technologies developed by one of the creators of InterBase (which later became core technology for the Open Source Firebird project). Read more here.