Brook: a new web framework for FreePascal/Lazarus with Firebird Support
A new and promising web development framework has been born for Free Pascal/ Lazarus developers. It supports REST, JSON, and you can download it from here:
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
TurboBird 0.9.8 released
Download links at the project’s page
New features:Running queries in background using Threads.
Major and minor bug fixes.
TurboBird 0.9.6 released
Download links at the project’s page
New features:
Small additions to Database comparison, New Table, Permissions management, Query Window, and new Icons
TurboBird 0.9.6
Firebird Training for DB Admins: Automating the database backup & restore
In this session we show you how to automate the Firebird backup & restore using Firebird’s command-line tool, GBAK, and the IBExpert server tool; IBExpertBackupRestore
Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2012 at LinuxQuestions
Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2012 at LinuxQuestions (must be registered user with at least one post)
Spread the word on all forums and Firebird communities
Twitter conversation : Database index nodes are doubly linked to allow bi-directional scans
Twitter conversation of the day is related to SQL Performance Tip : Database index nodes are doubly linked to allow bi-directional scans
Python fdb driver on it’s way to Debian repository
Python driver for firebird : fdb will have a package in the Debian repository in the near future
Philippe Makowski will create the package .
Driver is already packaged for : Mageia, Fedora, RHEL and FreeBSD
Please Join the New Google Plus Firebird Community
Google Plus launched Communities and we created one for Firebird , Please Join in the conversation
New Package Firebird (2.5.2.26539.0) released for Centos and RedHat Linux
New firebird packages are released for CentOS 6 (RHEL 6) in the EPEL repository with the following Changelog :
added patch from upstream to fix Firebird CORE-4011 and RH #886578
Firebird-Mezzanine = Firebird and Django’s WordPress alternative : Mezzanine
Here are my install instructions on Ubuntu/Debian for Mezzanine CMS
First install Firebird 2.5.2 , Then install django and fdb driver
sudo pip install djangosudo pip install fdbsudo pip install mezzanine
Install django-firebird driver like is described on the github page
Create new mezzanine project:
mezzanine-project firebird-mezzaninecd firebird-mezzanine
create empty database from isql-fb / flamerobin
isql-fb
SQL> create database “localhost:/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/firebird-mezzanine.fdb” user ‘SYSDBA’ password ‘masterkey’;
SQL> quit;
create local config for firebird
python manage.py createdbpython manage.py runserver
look at the first results after the wordpress import (i was so impressed that i have removed the old wordpress.com account)
next step : blogspot import is in progress