Firebird in Top#3 Open source databases
Well maybe we will do beter with promotion but this year we won the #3 place in LinuxQuestions Database Of the Year Poll
Thank You to all Who Voted , Next Year target is to overcome Postgresql 🙂
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Yet another OSS DB:Firebird Install on CentoOS + History Japanese Way
Another article in Japanise where Firebird History is recolected also Firebird Future and Roadmap from 2008 is inspected
Also in first part Firebird 2. 1.1 is compiled and installed from source on CentOS
Firebird 2.0.x on Solaris Sparc – Japanese way
Here is an article in Japanese with the quest of installing Firebird 2.0.x on Sun Solaris Sparc
Firebird2.1 moved from Debian experimental to sid (unstable)
Today i have installed Debian Lenny in an kqemu/kvm virtual machine (managed by virt-manager under ubuntu jaunty )
firebird by default there is 2.0.4 so i wanted the latest firebird2.1 stable from debian so i just dist upgraded the lenny to sid
by replacing all lenny words from /etc/apt/sources.list with sid then i did from console
an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade after that i have now access to firebird2.1 just released for sid
then in terminal apt-get install firebird2.1-super and after that dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-super
Firebirdsql.org main website is back
The main firebirdsql.org website was down , the server had an power supply failure , and now seems that Sean changed the server too
From Suse to Debian , Any problems detected with website please report to Firebird-website mailing list
Firebird included in FunToo Linux Distro
Configure Squirrel to connect to Firebird Database
I was looking for some tutorial about configuring Squirrel SQL (http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/) to connect to firebird database and unfortunately i couldn’t find one . So when i finally managed to connect, i thought of publishing the steps in my log so that it could be useful to some one else.
Configuring Squirrel Sql to connect to firebird was much easier than i thought.
Delphi/Firebird and ExtJs, part 2
fbsql: Clean client-libraries for Firebird and Interbase databases
I’ve written this quite some time ago (and it didn’t receive much love since then, but it’s functional and should be bug-free), but I just noticed I haven’t mentioned it on my blog: fbsql is a clean C-API that can be used to create bindings for other languages (such as Python or Ruby). It’s much simpler to use than the raw Interbase/Firebird API and it uses IBPP internally. So it’s basically just forwarding the function calls to IBPP and abstracting the IBPP classes to a C interface that is straight forward and intuitive.
Installing Firebird Active Record for Ruby
Here is how to install fb_adapter for Rails on Ubuntu (It didn’t had any README so i had to figure it out on the Train to the Ruby Meetingwhere I will talk a little about Firebird and Ruby)