Future of Firebird session at conference
Dmitry Yemanov did a session about Firebirds future, he included several slides about the almost-beta Firebird 2.5, an Alpha build is currently available via Firebirds website.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Italy, the Conference on Firebird, etc. – Dmitry Kuzmenko’s view
He reached back from Italy and now you can read his blog and see his album
Also seems that there are some albums on the main site firebirdconference.net
Firebird Conference 2008 – Milan Babuskov’s view
Firebird Conference 2008 – Mariuz’s view
I think is the best conference I have ever atended and with people from various contries , Some of them
from :Japan , Brazil , South Africa , France, Russia , Holland, Germany and even Dominican Republic. I didn’t listed all of the contries but you can get the picture about the diversity.
Here you can read my blog post about the conference – it will be updated with pictures and more info soon
http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/09/firebird-conference-2008-i-think-is.html
Firebird conference 2008 – Marco Cantu’s words
I spent the end of the last week at the Firebird Conference 2008 in Bergamo, giving talks on using Delphi with the open source database server.[Read more on the first link]
Firebird backup script
This is my first released backup script for Firebird RDBMS. It automagically search for all Firebird databases from a central directory, uses gfix to validate them, then backup + gzip them to a central backup directory keeping only 5 last successful backups.
It may be used as a cron script to automate Firebird databases backup.
Firebird 2.0 Language Reference Update
I’ve uploaded PDF, HTML and multi-HTML versions of the 2.0 LangRef Update to
FlameRobin 0.9.0 released
23.09.2008 – A new release is out. It brings new features like Firebird 2.1 support, tabbed browsing, etc. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and source code package are available for download. Here are the details.
Debian Package of the Day: FlameRobin: A GUI to Administer Firebird/Interbase SQL servers
Article submitted by Anton Kavalenka.
Firebird SQL server is popular because it is free, open, lightweight and secure. Firebird is based on the Interbase SQL server, and can be accessed by the same client libraries.
FlameRobin is a X-platform GUI application that makes the life of Firebird/Interbase admins easier. It’s a very light-weight solution (implemented with wxWidgets) as opposed to Tora, which tries to be universal, but is very huge and takes a while to load. FlameRobin starts almost instantly, but being lightweight doesn’t mean to be poor in features. Some of them are:
fb_mhash 1.2.01 released
fb_mhash is a UDF library for Firebird/Interbase. It implements an interface to the mhash library (libmhash). It support hash, hmac, and key generation algorithms, such as SHA1, MD5, MCRYPT, and S2K_SALTED. It support BLOB data.
Release focus:Â Minor bugfixes
Changes:
The dependency on the Firebird library was removed.