Firebird Ported to gobolinux
Here is the active thread with the porting efforts . Gobolinux is an pretty interesting distro with new idea to packaging an application (the filesystem is the package manager)
Category: Technical Articles
Technical articles, How-tos, guides, etc.
Firebird intro lecture
Is in portuguese , You might need babelfish or google translator
Using FireBird RDBMS +VB article
This open-source RDBMS has functionality similar to MySQL and Oracle …
You will learn how to Create a database in FireBird and build a VB front end for it
pcQuest Article by Sanjay Majumder
Why I’m Not a Fan of “Utility” Classes
Blog of the day about Design Paterns , Firebird Anti- Paterns
The case for function based indexes – part two
Some time ago I wrote about function based indexes, showing a PostgreSQL based case, right now I’ll show a Firebird based example, due to the fact that Firebird 2.0 supports Expression Indexes, which are my good old function based indexes.
Read More on pabloj’s blog
Flamerobin as a GUI for embedded Firebird – Howto
In general you just need to have Flamerobin connect to Embedded Firebird through local protocol, my setup with Firebird 1.5.3 is like this
Firebird Tutorial for .NET 2.0
I’ve been promising the Firebird Tutorial for .NET for a long time.
Now there is a first “beta” version: http://www.firebirdtutorial.net/. I decided to start with the .NET 2.0 topics – a lot of interesting things happen around FirebirdClient 2.0 and there is not much documentation about it (unless you are a fan of mailing list browsing).
Change a database connection string from code in asp.net
The connection string to a database should never be hard coded in your application. There is (almost) always a difference between the development and production database server. Besides that IT management should have an easy way to change the configuration.
Read more on the weblog of Peter van Ooijen
ASP and Firebird
This paper is about Firebird and ASP pages, the most interesting thing is that it shows how to use transactions within ASP pages, which is not so common. [Ed: pabloj is my hero, we need more articles like this one ]
eRuby: Using Ruby DBI for database connectivity
Here’s a list of the Linux and Windows database drivers for ruby and links for downloading them. All from Firebird and MySQL to Oracle. The tutorial also shows how to install the DBI abstraction layer for Ruby to get database connectivity and use it to create write once use everywhere Ruby code.
via dzone.com