New GSOC update for the previous week : Plenty of mountains conquered this week, also some useful work done …
Also default dialect is now 3 for the Firebird SDBC driver
http://www.ahunt.org/2013/07/firebirds-dialects/
Mark Rotteveel wrote about new Firebird JDBC driver snapshot:
I just created a snapshot version of Jaybird 2.2.4 with basic Java 8 /
JDBC 4.2 support. It is available for download from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-jca-jdbc-driver/2.2.4-snapshot-jdk18/
This snapshot provides basic support for Java 8 by overriding the new
default interface methods added with a slightly more sane default. Most
of the changes in Java 8 are about supporting large update counts (>
Integer.MAX_VALUE) and the new SQLType interface.
For the large update counts Jaybird simply delegates to the methods
returning int values.
The Statement.setLargeMaxRows(long) method will set the max to 0 (no
maximum) if a value larger than Integer.MAX_VALUE is supplied.
The SQLType methods will delegate to the methods accepting an int
sqlType parameter with the value obtained from getVendorTypeNumber()
without further validation or checking. The exception to this are the
ResultSet.updateObject(…) methods which don’t have an equivalent
accepting an integer type parameter. In that case it is delegated to the
equivalent method without type support.
The snapshot is also available on maven in the Sonatype OSS snapshot
repository: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots
Mysql2Firebird is updated with support for MySQL Workbench exported SQL syntax.
Changelog:
Expanded parsing to look for MySQL Workbench exported SQL syntax.
Added table name prefix on foreign keys to avoid problems with duplicate column names.
Added Timestamp trigger.
To get help about the Node-Firebird client a new group is created
Changes to libreoffice and firebird driver can be seen in the git log
And here is announcement :
Firebird has now been integrated into LibreOffice master!
It now builds on Mac and Windows in addition to Linux. (I’ve only tested on Linux but will be testing/fixing as necessary on Mac/Windows this week.)
The database driver itself is almost unusable at the moment as I’ve been refactoring various things to do with transaction control and execution of statements. More and more functionality should be appearing in the course of this week, making the driver more usable .
Firebird .ODB
Paul Beach wrote on his blog :
Based on a document written by Fulvio, a while ago, I finally spent time writing a make file that will automatically create an embedded version of Firebird that will run on MacOSX as a bundle.
Jiri Cincura wrote about his issues with SourceForge and SVN also his idea to move
to a better system : git/github:
Maybe you remember the thread “Releasing more often???“. Yeah and
nothing happened. 🙂 Because there was not a strong protest, I think
it’s something we all ‘d like to have.
I was lately really pissed of by SF’s SVN. If you worked with it, not
just committing, I think just using it, you can feel my pain. So first
part of the improving I’d like to offer moving to Git on GitHub. I’m
not a fan of GitHub (I like BitBucket, if somebody asks), but it’s a
de-facto standard in OSS.
With this we will also gain benefits like downloading the sources
packed, downloadig specific version etc.
Also I’d like to release *only* on NuGet and latest version for latest
framework as MSI (on website). The rest can be downloaded/extracted
from NuGet. We now support just .NET 3.5 SP1 and later, thus at least
VS2010 and so NuGet is available to everybody. And even that, you can
grab NuGet.exe and download from command line, if you want (i.e.
you’re hard-core developer using Notepad and csc only :)). Both these
with higher cadence, shorter release loop as mentioned in previous
thread.
Maybe I’m too optimistic, so please let me know what you think and
what you think is going not work. 😉
John Tomaselli wrote on his blog about his main stack:
I’m going to post my latest project I’m working on and will go back to publish some older works that might be of interest to the community. About a year ago I attended an AngularJS meetup at Google’s NY office and since then have completely changed my development stack. Angular is an awesome approach to developing client side web applications and has truly changed my development life. Of course I needed a back end that supported Firebird. This is where Nodejs comes in and helps explain the gap between posts as it’s taken some time to become proficient with all these new developments. There is a lot to learn and fortunately for those just jumping in, the resources since I began are maturing at a rapid rate (see pluralsight training, eggheadio, books etc) .
The Main Stack:
New Screencast with FB TraceManager from Thomas Steinmaurer
The transaction simulator uses either scripts or random commands to simulate the Firebird database versioning system and the result of the simulator are checked with Firebird’s outputs. Read committed and Snapshot transactions are presented. Some remarks about long transactions and Firebird slowdown caused by transactions
