Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
From mindthefirebird on twitter:
Articles contest is extended to April 21. Now we have only 3 submissions. Write an article about Firebird 2.5 and win the prize.
Editor note: I hope more people participate in this contest, since it is a good way to improve FB documentation and still have the chance of getting some money đ
Marco Cantu just blogged about his upcoming webinar, promoted by MindTheBird campaign:
To celebrate 10 years of the Firebird open source database and the coming release 2.5, the community behind the software has organized a promotional campaign called “Mind the Bird!“. IN case you don’t know, Firebird started when Borland decided to open source Interbase and later changed their mind. At that point the existing source code as used as a starting point for this open source project. Even if Firebird has a niche role in the open source database world, its technical qualities really shine and its license is fully open (unlike that of the most famous of the open source DBs, MySQL).
Webinar info: April 27, 2010, GMT+3 —Â Title:Â Delphi and Firebird, by Marco Cantu (in English)
If you missed the webinar from Ann Harrison, promoted by MindTheBird today, you can now download the recorded version here.
April 8, 2010, 14-00 GMT Technological history of Firebird – 3 decades of innovations, by Ann W Harrison (in English). Connection details http://www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html
Click to link will open your installed LiveMeeting client, or if you don’t have this installed, will ask you to download and install it. Note that webinar will be available to join in 30 minutes before it’s beginning, otherwise LM client will say that “The meeting has not started yet…”.
Attendees will be muted, only presenter can speak. Attendees may ask questions using Q&A menu in Live Meeting Client.
Hello All!
You can download webinar recording here http://www.mindthebird.com/download/mtbweb20100406.zip
And we are glad to say that Grzegorz Skoczylas won the prize (IBSurgeon IBAnalyst) for the best question during webinar! Congratulations!
Regards,
MindTheBird Team
The soon to be released Firebird 2.5 has a new ability to cancel running command (or any operation currently being processed by server) via API (in 2.1 you can do it via monitoring tables). This is a nice feature, interesting not only for database administration tools.
I was working on supporting it for a while in .NET provider, but I’m happy to say that it’s done (though I may tune the boundaries based on feedback).
The MindTheBird campaign will present its first online Webinar, with nobody less than Dmitry Yemanov, chief of the Firebird development team.
Details:
When: April 6, 2010, 15-00 GMT
Title: SuperClassic – new architecture in Firebird 2.5
Who: by Dmitry Yemanov (in English).
Connection details will be published soon at MindTheBird site.
There’s a bug introduced between PHP 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 that affects
handling of Firebird blobs on 64bit machines. Having moved some of my servers to 64bit Slackware (Slamd64 to be more precise) I run into
this problem.
Read full post in Milan Babuskov blog.
New MindTheBird contest: FB 2.5 features documentation contest
Write articles/documentation about any of the new Firebird 2.5 features and you can win a prize of USD 500 (1st place) or USD 200 (honourable mention prizes).
Rules:
Deadline for articles is April 16, 2010. Contest will be judged by Firebird Core developers: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff.
The authors of the best articles will get money as a prize (needs to have account in PayPal to receive the money).
Materials should be sent to admin@mindthebird.com
