Author: mariuz

Roadmap for a distributed Firebird? was posted on firebird-devel list By Jim Starkey.

Goal: Morph Firebird into a high performance, distributed, fully redundant database.

Revision history for Perl extension DBD::Firebird for 1.19:

• Fix $VERSION in Firebird.pm [mapopa]
• Fix typo in ISC_PASSWORD spelling [stefbv70]
• Positive logic and early return [Tux]
• Allow re-executing/fetch on prepared sth [RT#92810, Tux]
• Add rests for $dbh->{Name} and others [mjp]
• Implement $dbh->{Name} [mjp]
• Fix attributions to Mike Pomraning [mjp]
• use strict and warnings in all modules [dmn]
• add a test for inserting/fetching float and double numbers as an attempt to reproduce RT#101650 [dmn]
• fix File::Which configure prerequisite declaration [RT#101672, dmn]
• 03-dbh-attr.t: plan tests after creating the TestFirebird object [dmn]
• Buffer Overflow in dbdimp.c [Debian #780925, stefan.roas]
• use snprintf instead of sprintf everywhere [dmn]

Dmitry Yemanov added documentation for the new feature : Scrollable cursors in PSQL, DSQL with additional API support

Function:
Allow to navigate through the open cursor in any direction rather than sequentially fetching records forward.

PyFirebirdsql Version 0.9.7 is released with Firebird 3 Wire Protocol changes

– null indicator fixes for Firebird 3
– PyCrypto dependency added for Firebird 3

One example is in test basic api file

Hajime Nakagami contributed new Statistical functions : covar_samp(), covar_pop(), corr()

You can find a few examples in the pull request.

ps:Now is merged

Cool project : Meteor watching cameras powered by the Raspberry Pi, bought to you by Cambridge Science Centre!

http://www.cambridgesciencecentre.org/MeteorPi/

News via twitter

With fdb version 1.4.4 we recommend flynn.io open source platform as a service (PaaS)

Here is is how it works now with django-firebird and heroku buildpacks

Egor Pugin announced on Firebird-Devel list :

With new CMake 3.2.1 it is possible to successfully build Firebird for
iOS platform using CMake.
Updated instructions for iOS build available at
https://bitbucket.org/egor_pugin/firebird_cmake/wiki/Home

The last issue you encounter during building is duplicate symbol error
from clang. It is related to class DatabaseDirectoryList in anonymous
namespace. This class exists in files: src/jrd/jrd.cpp and
src/common/db_alias.cpp.
For my tests I added last underscore symbol to one of those classes
and the build completes.

node-firebird 0.6.0 released with critical problem with Transactions fixed

There is a medium difficulty task for a c++ programmer in current GSOC 2015

The Firebird driver for LibreOffice was started, and is mostly functional, in a previous GSoC, but it needs finishing and polishing. The main remaining issue is that the firebird data format embedded in the .odb file is endianess-dependent. The idea is to switch to Firebird’s “archive” format that is not.

Required skills / knowledge
C++, SQL, Reading other’s code, capacity to work autonomously.
Difficulty
medium
Potential mentors
Lionel Elie Mamane, IRC: schoinobates, mail: lionel AT mamane DOT lu