What is new in Firebird 2.5 – article in Czech
Here is the article with what is new in Firebird , I used google translate to read what is all about
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
php5.3 drivers for firebird and pdo on centos 5.3
Here is the install guide for php5.3 and pdo on centos 5.3 using the remi/epel repositories ,
Now the remi repository can be used for Fedora 10 also
Firebird 2.1.2 and Php 5.1.6 on CentOS 5.3
Here are the notes for installing php firebird support in CentOS 5.3 using the php 5.1.6 from it’s own repository and Firebird 2.1.2 from EPEL-Testing repository
Firebird mention on Log Buffer #145: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Here is the text from this version of Buffer #145
It’s time to nominate Firebird for CCA 2009, SourceForge’s Community Choice Awards, says Firebird News. Firebird is nominated for Best Project, Best Tool or Utility for Developers, and Best Project for the Enterprise.
On Free Database: The Relational Databases Blog appears an embedded Firebird database overview. It begins, “I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfill the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system.”
On Compas Pascal, Lars Dybdahl makes some observations on the real-life latency of a Firebird server.
Firebird packages for Fedora, Centos, RHEL
It’s official now, Philippe Makowski is the maintainer of Firebird packages for Fedora and Epel (Centos and RHEL packages) and Firebird packages get pushed into Fedora repositories.
Here is the guide for Centos5.3 you must enable the epel-testing for centos
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
This is done by editing the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo file (installed by the previous rpm command) and changing the first “enabled=0” to “enabled=1”.
php5.3 drivers for firebird and pdo on Fedora 10/11
Please PHP users tests this repository for fedora linux 10/11 also for Centos 5.3
http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2009/05/08/PHP-5.3.0-RC2-en
if you find bug, report here : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499036
Firebird 2.1.2 packages for Ubuntu are ready
64 bit Firebird 2.5, and Solaris Sparc
Looks like the job is already done… Paul wrote on the blog . It was posted on devel-mailing list related to solaris threading using pthreads
“I confirm that the issues are fixed in HEAD. I confirmed this on 64-bit Solaris Sparc, built with the Sun Studio native compiler – using pthreads!!!”
How cool is that! Thanks very much guys for the quick turn-around.
Also, big thanks to Alex for his assitance with this port!!”
Cross Database Queries in Firebird seems to be an hot topic
On devshed forums Cross Database Queries seems to be a hot related topic (more than 1200 views)
JbConsole 0.2.0 released
JbConsole is a Firebird console tool. I have tested with Jython 2.5b3 and Jaybird 2.1.6 .
(java 1.6 on Windows XP and java 1.5 on OS X 10.5)
It’s still toy level, but it seems to be sample implementation of Jaybird and Jython.
http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nakagami/Download/JbConsole_0_2_0.zip
See the screen shot
http://nakagami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-02-09
ED:Translated with google , I like his words about Jython
Swing and Java (JVM) I fast. 驚いた。 I was surprised.