Firebird 2.1 alpha, a quick glance at the new features
Firebird 2.1 alpha, a quick glance at the new features
Firebird 2.1 alpha, a quick glance at the new features
My use of Firebird started with its precursor, Interbase. I used Interbase for almost two years in a Delphi project, and at the time I was already doing some Firebird tests to see if it was a good alternative to Interbase. It was. It is. But I ended up not using it. From then on, Firebird has remained my database engine of choice, and I use it to host these sites, for instance. Also, I use it in most of my development efforts. [ED:Example of Firebird admnistration tool written in ruby http://ralip.com.br/jp/wiki/?p=ss_db_admin , spotted via http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.396268.13 ]
Charles Nutter has been keeping an updated page of Rails test run results that shows progress towards the goal of a fully-functioning JRuby on Rails. Members of the JRuby team have already demonstrated Rails applications working on JRuby, and even ActiveRecord talking to databases via JDBC. To be clear, what we’re talking about here is the effort to get the sizable Rails test suite running at 100% passing.
Rails developers working on enterprise software projects are suprised to discover the lack of automated tests in many mature web applications. As frustrating as this can be, A lack of automated tests is also a tremendous opportunity to
I knew 9 years of IB/FB experience would come in handy. [ED:wordpress firebird conversion in progress]
Firebird wiki site is ready now. http://wiki.firebirdsql.org
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