ANN: The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine #4
We are glad to inform you that “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” #4
is available for free download.
Please download it from one of the following locations:
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird at WebTech 2006 in Bulgaria and RC3 release date
Miroslav Penchev wrote on firebird-general list :
There is a conference about Open Source, Web development and Databases at
the end of June in Sofia, Bulgaria. You can see
http://wtconferences.com/2006/index.php for more info.
I will make a lecture about Firebird and now I make my presentation and
develop the information to present. Almost all of lecture I will present
Firebird current version, to make it more popular here in Bulgaria. I also
plan to include information about FB 2 at the end of lecture – new things,
performance optimization, etc.
Smart Transaction Management with Firebird and Delphi
With interbase/firebird we use transactions. you start transactions before you get/post data from the database. With this article i’d like to show how you can easily centralize the code and prevent errors like “Transaction already started, or errors while committing”.
DotNetFirebird Ultimate Appliance released
DotNetFirebird Appliance contains LAMP like kit (Mono+Apache + Firebird + Ubuntu Linux + PHP+Lazarus) to easy start programming in php/mono/oopascal and working with firebird (Two administration tools were included in the virtual machine) also there is added MonoDevelop for C# coding and Lazarus (Delphi like ide) for oopascal for RAD (Rapid application development)
Firebird Ultimate Appliance – Released
Firebird Appliance contains LAMP like kit (Apache + Firebird + Ubuntu Linux + PHP) to easy start programming in php and working with firebird (Two administration tools were included in the virtual machine)
Now you can download and play with it (in the free vmware player)
blog of the day gmane.comp.ide.lazarus
Lazarus is an delphi like ide that can be used with firebird , Here is their blog interface for their mailing list archive
Installing TurboGears on Ubuntu (product with firebird support)
Sean Schulte wrote in his blog about this new python framework:
I recently came across a new web framework called TurboGears that I think seems pretty interesting.
mnoGoSearch 3.2.39 released
Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
mnoGoSearch is a full-featured Web search engine that you can use to build search appliances (with firebird back-end)
GoldMine Sales Conference Report – product with Firebird back-end
Summary – FrontRange has invested a lot of money to modernize all of their products. Some of these moves don’t look very big from a user perspective but the changes in the background are huge and will allow you to easily integrate data with other software, the internet, your cell phones and in reporting. All of their products are getting “new plumbing” and will be written in vb.net with a SQL/firebird back-end.
Gentle.NET 1.2.9 released
Gentle.NET is a CLS-compliant, database independent object persistence framework.
Release focus: Minor bugfixes
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