Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Google + Firebird page
After the FaceBook Firebird page You can now join to the Firebird + Circle and add it to your circles
ps: I will try to add my Firebird circle there and add the firebird foundation members with full admin rights
Forced Writes Performance impact on #Ubuntu with ext4 no barrier
Tweet of the day comes from Carlos H. Cantu about forced writes effects for running firebird scripts
Script executing time – Linux Ubuntu 10.04.3 Ext4 – FW=ON -> almost 2h. FW=OFF -> 2 minutes … no barrier parameter mentioned in /etc/fstab
node.js firebird driver 0.0.7 released with support for #node 0.6.0
Here is the download page and you can check the Commit History for interesting changes.
It was tested with nodejs 0.6.0.
python firebird driver pyfirebirdsql 0.6.2 is released
Here is the download page and the full changelog
For overview here is the short changelog:
Small changes list compensations
Hostname and user (from environ) send as is.
What is new in .NET provider (trace support, cancellation and more) talk on Firebird Conference 2011
If you’re using Firebird from .NET you should visit my talk on Firebird Conference 2011. This year it’s in Luxembourg at November 25-26.
There’s no schedule yet (in time of writing), but I can tell you, that my talk will be on Friday, for sure. Topics covered are obvious. Everything worth mentioning from last year or so in .NET provider development and also some future plans. Feel free to come and ask whatever .NET provider related (or Firebird) you want.
P.S. Would you be interested in picking up some Twitter questions during the talk?
Catch Firebird Database events with Node.js
In this post, I’ll try to explain how you can use Node.js to catch events on Firebird
python firebird driver pyfirebirdsql 0.6.1 is released
Here is the download page and the full changelog
For overview here is the short changelog:
Added savepoint() and rollback to savepoint support (and tests)
Added _op_execute_immediate() operation
Services.getAttachedDatabaseNames() bugfix
Bugfix for python3
Correct file attibute for some py modules
Perl Firebird Driver – DBD-Firebird 0.90 is released
Here is the list of changes and you can use the cpan download page to get the package.
The major change is that perl driver can use the Firebird embedded mode so it doesn’t need a full Firebird
server to run the tests.
Here is the thread with the features commited and here is the related bug fixed.
firebird 2.5.1 source package is moved to debian testing
FYI: The status of the firebird2.5 source package in Debian’s testing distribution has changed.
Previous version: 2.5.1.26349-0~rc1.ds4-5 Current version: 2.5.1.26351.ds4-2