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This tutorial explains how to create a sqitch – enabled Firebird project, use a VCS for deployment planning, and work with other developers to make sure changes remain in sync and in the proper order.

We’ll start by creating new project from scratch, a fictional antisocial networking site called Flipr. All examples use Git as the VCS and Firebird as the storage engine.

Author tells his story  on the blog first birthday:

When I launched, one year ago I did not knew if it would be read, if anyone is interested in what I had planned to write, but I thought it needed a blog in Castilian language to help us learn more about Firebird, because it is an engine very good data bases and documentation was missing in our language.

My expectations were not so high , I thought hopefully in a year could reach 10,000 visits and would consider myself very lucky and if reached 20,000 visits. Well, at this time and exceeded 116,000 visits so I am more than happy with the good reception that we have It’s really a very pleasant surprise.

Free Pascal 2.6.4 is a point release from the 2.6.0 fixes branch.

Some highlights are:

• Packages:
  • Lots and lots fixes and improvements for fcl-db
  • web and json packages synchronized.
  • improvements to the chmcmd compiler.
  • Several fixes for winunits (and winceunits)
• Documentation:
  • Many additions
  • fpjson documented

See the changelog for the list of reported bugs which have been fixed in this release.

Thomas Kellerer wrote on Firebird General list
If anyone is interested I have a similar comparison here
http://www.sql-workbench.net/dbms_comparison.html
It includes Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, DB2, Firebird, MySQL and the three popular Java embedded engines

Peter Gulutzan (ex Mysql at Oracle arhitect) decided to compare the current versions of MySQL 5.6 and Firebird SQL 2.5. he only looked at SQL standard features that end users can see, without benchmarking

http://ocelot.ca/blog/blog/2014/03/09/354/

Or another link is on coral cache for people who can’t access the above one
http://ocelot.ca.nyud.net/blog/blog/2014/03/09/354/

but some comments / content can be stalled

It’s a weird score because they (Sun/Oracle) didn’t delivered mysql 6 and compared to it Firebird 3 is a major arhitectural change and rewrite and it doesn’t deserve the penalty box
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.general/198/focus=274

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The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.

I found the sample app on the xdenser git repo node-fb-sample

I have made a few small changes to make it work with current node/express (already pushed to original repository) also i have added a few instructions to install dependencies

I have synced Firebird 2.5.2 package with version in Debian including icu 52.1
loading fix for all supported releases.

The icu loading issue is fixed in Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 Firebird 2.5 package
ps: Support for Raring was removed (no longer supported by Canonical)