News from the Firebird developers.
Storm is an object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python developed at Canonical. The project has been in development for more than a year for use in Canonical projects such as [WWW] Launchpad, and has recently been released as an open-source product.
Who knows maybe an firebird port will be made for it
One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free — alternatives to traditional solutions.
[ED: no wonder that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year]
FbConsole 0.7.0 is an IronPython and Windows Forms console for working with the Firebird database (ED:inspired by flamerobin)
This week Morfik Technologies announced that its WebOS AppsBuilder web development tool supports the creation of applications for the iPhone. The first sample application is a chess game.
Morfik uses Firebird as its default, built-in, database.
More details and comments on ReadWriteWeb.
MyGeneration is now an open source project under the BSD license on SourceForge.net, you can find the project HERE
After many lunchtimes of testing and documenting, and with a little (!) help from Paul in the Limbo Transactions testing, I have checked in the gfix manual.
Onwards to other things now – gpre!
Cheers,
Norman.
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EMS Company is pleased to announce You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/query/download |
William L. Thomson Jr added the new package
Announcement was posted By: rjmills(the new project leader)
At the moment the binary only version has been released. I’m working on getting the source code package available ASAP
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Release Candidate 1, ADO.NET Data Provider for
Microsoft .NET 2.0, and mono is available for download.
Download information can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider
