Category: Events/Conferences

Firebird events and conferences all over the world

More than R$ 4.000 donated for protocol performance enhancement

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Many attendees of the 9th Firebird Developers Day donated money to sponsor the enhancement of the Firebird protocol, known to be “slow” in high latency networks (ie: internet). This is the #1 voted feature in the Firebird tracker! The development will be done by Dmitry Yemanov, chief of the Firebird development team, and available in Firebird 3 (with chances of being partially backported to Firebird 2.5.x). A list with the names of all donors and values can be found here.

Workshop with Alexey Kovyazin, in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil

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Informamos que amanhã, dia 20/Julho, haverá um workshop gratuito com Alexey Kovyazin, na Unimep Taquaral, em Piracicaba. Não há necessidade de se inscrever antecipadamente. Os interessados podem comparecer diretamente no local e hora indicada.

Segue informações:

Workshop Otimização de banco de Dados SQL
Local: Auditório Azul – Bloco 7 – Campus Taquaral
Data: 20/07/2012 – Sexta-feira
Início: 14h30 – duração prevista de 1h30
Workshop em inglês, com tradução consecutiva para português.

Alexey Kovyazin é diretor executivo da IBSurgeon e um veterano das tecnologias da informação: sua experiência inclui ter trabalhado na Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero e na Microsoft, além de ser especialista na recuperação de bases de dados corrompidas. Na IBSurgeon, trabalha na melhoria constante dos produtos e serviços.

Estará falando sobre as ferramentas da IBSurgeon que facilitam o tunning de bancos de dados.

Jason Wharton talks about FBConference 2011

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All,

I would just like to report to the IBO community that the Firebird Conference in Luxembourg was a great success. There were over 60 people in attendance and the sessions I attended were all very good. It’s amazing what is being done with Firebird and what is coming in the future. Things are looking very good. The IB Objects session was well attended and it felt like some useful things were learned even by some of the long-time customers. If anyone is interested, the entire session was recorded. I can see about getting permission to put it up on YouTube or to post an MP3 download of it on a file sharing site. Send me a private email.

I think most of the fun we had was getting a personal contact with all the people we rub cyber shoulders with every day. Hopefully in the future there will be more people to come and attend.

I would like to stress the importance of everyone who uses Firebird to consider being a member of the foundation. Your opinions truly matter and your financial contributions are an investment in Firebird’s success. All of those who develop Firebird are awesome people. I really enjoyed getting acquainted with them personally. I wish for them to have the means to be compensated financially for their efforts in Firebird. It could be a significant and justified temptation for them to get hired away from their efforts. The best way we can keep their brilliance and talent solely dedicated to Firebird is to give it the resources to secure their interests.

I am working on an idea to give a discount to all those who are members of the Firebird Foundation so if you have some ideas please let me know. I would like to be a strong supporter of Firebird as best I can so I am looking for ways to accomplish this.

Kind regards,
Jason Wharton
www.ibobjects.com

Source: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IBObjects/message/45720

What is new in .NET provider (trace support, cancellation and more) talk on Firebird Conference 2011

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If you’re using Firebird from .NET you should visit my talk on Firebird Conference 2011. This year it’s in Luxembourg at November 25-26.

There’s no schedule yet (in time of writing), but I can tell you, that my talk will be on Friday, for sure. Topics covered are obvious. Everything worth mentioning from last year or so in .NET provider development and also some future plans. Feel free to come and ask whatever .NET provider related (or Firebird) you want.

P.S. Would you be interested in picking up some Twitter questions during the talk?

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