The Firebird Development Team released Firebird 2.1.2 this week. This sub-release focus on stability. There are no big changes, they’re all in store for Firebird 2.5, but it is important nonetheless. The list of bugs fixed is impressive.
on Paul Beach’s blog
Part of one of the things that I wanted to check was what malloc was doing. However by default any “error” messages get sent to standard out, however you can set the environment variable MallocLogFile to capture messages to a specified file.
Did you ever think about how cool would be to have fully featured SQL database, without installation (just xcopy) and with Entity Framework support?
I was wondering whether the Entity Framework support I’m creating in FirebirdClient will work with Embedded version. Taking into account that the communication layers are under the EF support, there should be no problem. But you’ll never be sure until you try it. 😉 And it works.
I used http://twitterfeed.com/ so the news feed from firebirdnews.org
now is going to these two users/groups that you can now follow
http://twitter.com/firebirdsql
http://identi.ca/group/firebird
hopefully we will have more results in the search area
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23firebird
ps: now we need to complete our moebius ring and follow the tweets on firebirdnews
Part two of the Delphi and pagination article , this time with TCollections
In my previous article, I wrote about a method to paginate data shown in a ListView.
Now, I want to extend its reach by replacing TDataSets by TCollections.
Via Leonardo’s Delphi and FreePascal blog
This is one of those things I needed for ages, but didn’t bothered to implement
because I thought it could require an unnecessary amount of work, and allways
opted for a less perfectionist method.I’m talking about a method to retrieve data in Pages, then browse it in a ListView
transparently for the user.
After I received a lot of heat about my post regarding why I find MySQL to be so bad (part I) – (mostly behind the scenes), I decided to also write something about Firebird SQL.
Howto stream/transfer Objects in Delphi over the slow internet with an Firebird Db Backend
MySQL is the most used Open Source database engine. I have personally used it for almost 10 years. I worked with versions 3.x, 4.x and 5.x of MySQL, but I also used other database engines, some of them handling the same “data-set size” as MySQL, while others have been smaller databases (mostly Desktop based databases such as SQLite, MS-Access and Paradox).
This is the first part of my complaint about MySQL and why I dislike it.
Here is my presentation prepared for Boston Php meeting
