Do you want Firebird database to be part of XAMPP?
Please vote on this survey if you agree to Firebird to become more popular in Php/Python world and to be added to the XAMPP package
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/survey-2012.html
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Web2Py 2.0.3 is out with support for new #python driver : fdb
New stable version is out and it includes support for the new Firebird driver fdb
Here is how the patch was done also a simple DAL example is attached
Web2Py 2.0.2 is out – #Python frameword with Firebird support out of the box
Here is the release announcement with many DAL improvements
Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0 is released
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of:
Lazarus 1.0
At this important stage the current team would like to thank all the past and current people who were involved in getting us here.
* Thanks also go to the FPC team for providing the compiler that makes it all possible.
* Special thanks go to the founders of the project who started Lazarus more than a decade ago in 1999: Cliff Baeseman, Shane Miller and Michael A. Hess.
* A history of developers involved can be found in wiki History page . And a list of the many contributors comes with the distribution.
The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page:
Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0” directory.
Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0 RC2 is released
The Lazarus team is glad to announce that Lazarus 1.0RC2 is available for download at the SourceForge download page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/
Choose your CPU / OS / distro and then the 1.0RC2 directory.
Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X: 10.4, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit
This release has been built with fpc 2.6.0 (the former release 0.9.30.4 was
built with that too).
The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_0_RC2
The list of changes:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_release_notes
Firebird Django and the Future : FDB pure python driver , Django 1.4.x , Python 3.x support
Maximiliano Robaina wrote on the firebird django group some words and questions about the future of the driver :
My ideas for future organization are:
- Update de google repository with the last django-firebird version with support for django 1.4. It will be the last update in this sense.
- From here, the next oficial repository will be at github
- The version on github will use fdb in place of kinterbasdb
The point 3 is the most important to discuss because it means the total drop of firebird 1.5.x support.
I have added to the group the notes for installing django 1.4.x firebird driver on ubuntu
ps: bonus for using the FDB driver is python 3.x support out of the box , that means we can start testing django 1.5 on python 3.x
Is #MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? time for alternatives : Firebird
The news is on slashdot Mysql is becoming slowly a closed source product.
This is the time and opportunity for firebird to grow and to become more well known , We knew from the past articles that Mysql decline will happen but it will take years (Old bad habits die hard)
Firebird #golang driver which looks to be much more complete.
Brent Rowland pointed out another Firebird golang driver that looks looks to be much more complete
Firebird #golang driver first release (Warning incomplete)
News via (Brent Rowland) tweet:
Tis code wasn’t doing anyone any good sitting on my hard drive. https://github.com/rowland/go-fb Warning: Incomplete
GladiusDB and Firebird: Databases for Your PHP Apps
In this next installment, we’ll be looking at two (arguably very contrasting) databases. The first is Gladius DB, which is a flat file database written in pure PHP. The second is Firebird, another database veteran, which has features similar to some of the better-known databases, such as Microsoft SQLServer.
So with that, let’s get going.
The article is on dzone too