Firebird in AppWave store
Embarcadero just released the AppWave Store, with plenty of free apps available. And our loved bird is listed in the mainpage, in the “popular apps” listing.
http://www.appwavestore.com/firebird.html
Category: General news
Firebird related news
ANN: FB TraceManager V2.5.2 available
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce FB TraceManager V2.5.2, a professional environment to monitor, profile, trace and optimize Firebird databases. |
More information on the new release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120416
This release fixes a critical stability issue and includes various minor bugfixes and adds experimental Firebird 3 trace support.
There are also the following new screencasts available:
What’s new in V2.5
What’s new in V2.0
FREE Lite Edition
More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
Searching for Firebird programmer
I got this in my email box, maybe some of you would be interested:
Dear Carlos,I came across your name asking developers to send details of large companies who use firebird databases. I am actually an end-user who has the open mind to want a firebird database but cannot find anyone who does this programming. I am based in the UK and am told to ‘steer away’ from firebird as it is not proven, etc. etc.It really is quite disappointing and seems that there are many others like myself who would like to have an alternative but cannot find a developer. So I am the horse looking for water to drink – but there is no water…not like you describe leading the client to the water but not getting them to drink.Any suggestions?JT <tse.tse@ntlworld.com>
PS: It is weird that in the actual days, with so many great case studies published, there are still people who thinks FB is a “toy”.
Firebird Download stats for April
Here are the Sourceforge stats from the beginning of the poject until now (The number of downloads passed 11,3 Millions)
I excluded the year 2000 (there were no file releases on sf then)
Also the sf logo impressions look interesting (Maybe it should be put back on the front page)
Firebird 2.5.2 package updated in Debian testing and sid (svn snapshot)
New Debian package is uploaded to debian testing and unstable releases , And here is the list of changes
Rails driver rubyfb-0.6.4 is released
This version fixes Segmentation fault issues
Release files can be found here
To install it using gem
rvm use ruby-1.9.3-p125
gem install rubyfb
Fetching: rubyfb-0.6.4.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed rubyfb-0.6.4
1 gem installed
Node.js Firebird driver 0.0.9 is released (tagged)
Here is the download page and you can check the Commit History for interesting changes (new features)and fixes (memory leaks , utf-8 char fields encoding handling).
- Fix for slda improper init
- Fixed memory leak for situation when single connection was used several times for several async queries, it also was making server to eat memory
- Fix to stream for char fields in UTF encoding
- Added async transaction start
- One fix to allow run execute procedure (and tests were added)
Django south fork with support for firebird was merged into main trunk (original project)
News via Maximiliano Robaina and here is the patch
To check more about the project you can check it’s homepage
ANN: FB TraceManager V2.5.1 + New Screencasts available
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce V2.5.1 of FB TraceManager, a professional environment to monitor, profile, trace and optimize Firebird databases. |
More information on the new release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20120313
This release extends the per-database monitoring capabilities with database statistics (data/index pages and record version information) monitoring. Adds support for ODS 11.1 (Firebird 2.1) monitoring tables and several other improvements and fixes. In combination with the Trace API, this is a powerful and integrated toolset to optimize and tune your Firebird server, database and client application even further.
There are also the following new screencasts available:
What’s new in V2.5
What’s new in V2.0
FREE Lite Edition
More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
Firebird Embedded and LibreOffice is the killer combination to scale from a single file application to a client/server approach
Quote of the day is via this thread on Firebird Java Group :
It would be good if Jaybird 2.3 could be used with embedded and
LibreOffice because the feature set in Firebird is obviously much, much greater
than HSQL or the proposed SQLite replacement.
The ability to create a zeroconf, transportable data file is of interest to me
(along with using iReport to generate printouts from that file).
OT: Personally I think that Jaybird / Firebird / Firebird embedded is the way to
go for LibreOffice instead of the very limited SQLite. The ability to upscale
from a single file application to a client/server one is a killer.
Update:Firebird Driver and Embedded version merged into LibreOffice git master