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New Firebird site is almost ready

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From Alexey Kovyazin:

Hello All,

Current data transfer from old site to the new site is almost complete. There are following areas in process:

  • In Development – QA, Documentations for developers and .NET/Python drivers
  • Old news – we will transfer old news for a while, now at 2009-2008 level.
  • In About Firebird -> Features description, is in progress
  • Grantee reports from old years
  • Some minor content adjustments

Also we need to manage setup for daily snapshot uploads.

For regular site updates, like adding news or new FF members/sponsors, dedicated person from DQTeam will manage data adding/changing, until other site contributors will learn how to use CMS.

Actual transfer and redevelopment is almost over, now web-site redevelopment is about “intellectual” re-writing and new content creatiion.

Such process will be run constantly, and there will be always gap between ideal site and good-enough site.

I ask everyone to join the action now, look through the site thoroughly, and then provide actual help in order to jump over gap and switch to the new site in the next few days, and then go to the Phase 2 – improvements and extensions.
Old site will be live for a while, of course, so no content will be missed.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin

FBDataGuard 2.5 for Linux: binaries and User Guide were updated

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New version of FBDataGuard 2.5 for Linux is available. Update introduces enhanced support for CentOS, Suse, Debian and Debian-derived Linux distributives.
At first run FBDataGuard automatically discovers installed Firebird and performs quick investigation of the system and, if something wrong found, it reports about the problem.
Changes are reflected in the new version of FBDataGuard User Guide (PDF is available).
Full (commercial) version of FBDataGuard includes Control Center – Windows GUI tool with advanced monitoring and recovery capabilities.

ANN: IBX for Lazarus and Firebird – Call for Testers

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MWA Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of IBX for Lazarus. IBX for Lazarus is derived from the Open Source edition of IBX published by Borland/Inprise in 2000 under the InterBase Public License. This version has been brought up-to-date by MWA Software and focused on the Firebird Database API for both Linux and Windows platforms. It is released under the InterBase Public License for the original code and under the compatible Initial Developers Public License for new software. Both Licenses permit commercial use.

http://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx

IBX for Lazarus has been developed in the context of a single project porting a large application originally developed in Delphi to Lazarus. Testing has focused on this application and the Linux 64-bit environment (Ubuntu 10.04), with product testing on 32-bit Linux and Windows XP. Wider deployment and testing is necessary before IBX for Lazarus can be considered stable.

You are encouraged to download the software and report your experience to us (ibx@mwasoftware.co.uk) – both good and bad so that a stable product can be made available to the Open Source Community.

Initially, please report bugs to the Bugzilla Database (http://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibxbugs) set up to monitor IBX for Lazarus bugs.

Initial Thread with the announcement (where other ports are discussed: OSX and some bugs fixed)

 

Shared page cache ready to be commited in firebird 3.0

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Vlad Khorsun wrote about the Shared page cache implementation in 3.0 :
After more than a year of development, testing, switching on another tasks and returning back i’m ready to commit shared page cache implementation into trunk.
I consider it stable enough to be committed into SVN. It runs some stability tests more than 10 hours for longest run and many shorter runs at different configurations.
Here i want to do overview of changes, what was tested, what was not, and what
is work in progress.

You can read more about Shared page cache in the Firebird 3.0 presentation
Update:Feature commited into trunk

Tips:How to Identify if your run 64 bits of Firebird engine

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Question: I have a requirement to Identify whether a Firebird system is 64 bit or not,in order to know whether to deploy a 64 bit UDF or a 32 bit UDF. Is there any thing to give the correct information?
The best Answer: Identify this information this way:
fbsvcmgr service_mgr -user sysdba -password masterke -info_server_version -info_implementation

see the manual for more  : http://firebirdsql.org/rlsnotesh/rlsnotes210.html#rnfb210-util-svcs

On ubuntu/debian 64 will give :
fbsvcmgr service_mgr -user sysdba -password masterke -info_implementation | grep 64
Server implementation: Firebird/linux AMD64

or you can count if the 64 string is present with -c in grep (notice that there is no need for username and password)

fbsvcmgr service_mgr -info_implementation | grep -c 64

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Amazon’s EC2 Micro Instance and Firebird

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Jiří Činčura Blogged about his impression on Amazon’s microinstance :

Few months ago I was playing with different VPS providers and I was also considering deploying the application to some “small instance” cloud. I came to Micro Instance of Amazon EC2. Part of the solution I was doing research for is Firebird database and because the pricing looks good, I tried to install Firebird (2.5 SuperClassic) on this instance.

TURBU – The Ultimate Rpg BUilder is switching to Firebird as storage mechanism

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From the about box :

TURBU is an RPG-building engine currently under development. It is being written by Mason Wheeler, and will be able to create and edit RPGs with a wide variety of customizable options, including importing existing project from RPG Maker 2000 and 2003.

And here is the blog post and the message With several advantages listed

I’ve added a bunch of new Event Builder editors, plus music-playing capabilities, but probably the biggest change is to the project database. I’m changing the storage mechanism from the old, built-in file format to a Firebird database.

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