The traffic for firebirdsql.org according to alexa.com is gone to the roof , now is past the 40.000 threshold and it’s now at the place
~ 35.000 : the best place in all the firebirdsql.org traffic history !
Via twitter and flamerobin /firebird-devel mailing lists i have seen a lot of activity related to firebird on ArchLinux packages
Creating now 4 packages of #firebird 2.5 to #ArchLinux: SuperServer, libfbclient, ClassicServer, SuperClassic, will be in AUR when I’ll done
Arch is in top 10 most wanted distros on distrowatch
NOTE :: To make the new engine work properly under multi-threaded conditions we had to use Grand Central Dispatch, which was first released in MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). MacOSX users should be aware that Firebird 2.5 will run only on MacOSX 10.6 or higher versions. If you want to use an earlier version of OSX you will need to use an earlier version of Firebird.
Download from usual location :
You can follow this guide to use the mix of Debian sid and experimental distro with latest Firebird package
Today the Firebird 2.5 is being released. You can read the press release and most importantly release notes. And sure, you can download it and use/test/deploy.
Congratulation to us, the Firebird Project, especially the core team. And also to you, users, I hope you’ll enjoy and like the new Firebird 2.5 version as we (I) do.
Note: The MindTheBird campaign team will run a webinar today at 13:00 GMT in anticipation of the launch of Firebird 2.5 Final Release. See the details.
I quoted from Jiri blog
Milan Babuskov wrote on his blog about his first steps in moving one host from Mysql to Firebird
I have a heavy-used website powered by LAMP stack (CentOS Linux,
Apache 2, MySQL and PHP). It started on a shared hosting so I had to
use MySQL. Year and a half later, I switched shared, virtual hosting
and not run it on a dedicated server. I decided to try Firebird to see
how it performs and also how it compares to MySQL in RAM usage, disk
usage, etc.
It’s not the official api but you can test it from github
firebirdsql 0.1.0: python3 dbapi for firebird rdbms.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/firebirdsql/0.1.0
ps:via pypy twitter bot
Helper C library for writing UDFs for Firebird in Lua (as well as a small collection of useful UDFs). The Firebird UDF interface would hopefully be obsoleted in Firebird v3.0 and replaced with the new External Engine API. Until then, I hope you find this little library helpful. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.
http://code.google.com/p/firebird-lua-udfs/
For tips on how to write UDFs for Firebird yourself, read UdfWritingTips.
PS: If writing UDFs in Lua seems overkill, checkout the other UDF library written in freepascal.
Firebird history and Mageia story are related to each other , here are the Philippe’s kind words
A new GNU Linux distribution is born : Mageia, a Mandriva Linux fork.
So why speak about this here ?
First, Firebird packages need a maintainer and as I am the one in Mandriva, I will do the same in Mageia
Second, this story remind me a little the Firebird story
Third I’m enthusiast to contribute (may be more than only Firebird related packages) to a such challenging adventure, and in this one, there are people that I really trust.
Long live Mageia : http://www.mageia.org/
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and here are the full details of the talk very impressive :The Firebird Database: simple, free and powerful
http://codebits.eu/intra/s/proposal/112
Artur Anjos, a Firebird Project member, finally registered himself on Codebits in order to share this presentation.
http://codebits.eu/arturanjos
Artur is with Firebird almost since the project started and has more than 8 years of production experience with it.
