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Firebird downloads will hit 1 Million Downloads for this year

October 25, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

From the download statistics we can observe that Firebird will hit 1 Million downloads for this year pretty soon (a few days)

Be Free Romanian version : In Autumn we count the buds: Firebird 2.5

October 22, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

It’s hard to translate the sentence but the main idea is in Autumn you get all the rewards for a full year work (if you work in agriculture)
The article is in Romanian and is on one of the best portals for Free Software (Translated Be Free)
You can try reading using the google translate.

Delta Quadrant: Horizons

October 21, 2010 Cantu 7 comments

From Sergey Mereutsa (posted to fb-devel):

Dear friends!

While it is an offtopic here, but it may be interesting for all, who is in any form involved in Firebird development.

Several years ago, we announced a web-based game, written in Firebird SQL. It was DQ:Empires and a lot of peoples around the world played this game.

Now, I`m pleased to announce next game, in the same game universe, but slightly other – Delta Quadrant: Horizons, a web-based space 4X strategy.

I will not write much details here about the game (someone compared it with online version of Masters of Orion game, but it is not MOO2 clone) – you can read more on game`s site, http://www.dqhorizons.com/ .

Some technical details:

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Game development started in FB 2.1 and was implemented as proof of some technologies (AJAX/PHP interaction). This year we decided to port it for social networks (Russian social network Vkontakte and well-known Facebook ports complete, other follow).

We jumped (yes, it was like jump) to FB 2.5, because it allowed us interdatabase connections.

Now we implemented fully scalable architecture with one master database and some slave databases. Almost all logic are in procedures (and triggers), PHP is used to filter user`s input and format SP`s result in XML/JSON, C++ used for game turn processing – because DML does not likes arrays as language structures.

There are 80 tables and 356 procedures in master database (yes, I know, some developers has thousands procedures), slave databases has the same metadata scheme. In the worst (it is best, from other point of view) case we expect 10^9 (billion) of records in the “explored stars table”.

Currently we are using Classic architecture – it is more suitable for development, but we plan to switch on SuperClassic after game release.

I want to say big thanx to Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff for their patience – hope our private bug reports was complete and not so annoying 🙂

First huge galaxy for Facebook (and for “original” game) is named Firebird and not only contain Firebird logo on the galaxy image – galaxy stars form Firebird logo shape too. Count this as our “Mind the Bird” idea propagation.

Feel free to ask me any technical details about game implementation.

P.S.: Last time I`v announced game, written in Firebird we`v got Brazillian Alliance, which was added (“canonized”) into the game universe as Republic of Borzellia, which is one of the main forces in our another MMO game with working title “DQ: Open Space”, but this another story.

And yes, we need Firebird 3.0 for main server 😉

P.P.S. If you experience problems with IE8 and our Facebook application – just enable cookies for our domain dqhorizons.com.

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Best regards,
Sergey

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Japanese Firebird 2.5.0 installer is ready (Windows 32-bit versions)

October 20, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Japanese Firebird 2.5.0 installer is ready,
Downloads can be found on this page. Also the press release is ready.

Do you use TIME and TIMESTAMP in your applications? The new IBProvider version will further simplify your work!

October 20, 2010 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

Have you ever lost microseconds when working with the type TIME?
Definitely, if you have ever tried to use them. In the previous versions of IBProvider, time was stored in OLE DB structure of DBTYPE_DBTIME type that does not support fractions of a second.

In the new IBProvider version, time data types have been improved. The new properties dbtime_rules and dbtimestamp_rules allow to set time storage not only in DBTIME/DBTIMESTAMP but also in WSTR and in the new type of MS SQL 2008 – DBTIME2 without losing milliseconds.

Please, read more and download new IBProvider Professional right now: Download Firebird OLE DB driver.

Firebird 3.0 #Debian Preliminary packaging is available in #Experimental

October 17, 2010 mariuz One comment

This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream
development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of
Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any
problems.

firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to
release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop
firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy
approaches releasable state.

Preliminary packagiing is available at
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary

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#Python 2.7 version of the driver for #Windows #x86-32 and #x64 is released

October 16, 2010 mariuz One comment

here are the download links :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win32-py2.7.msi/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win-amd64-py2.7.msi/download

Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.

Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1

Firebird supports all the #Debian #Linux main Architectures

October 15, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

With latest patches for hppa and alpha in Firebird 2.5 and Firebird 3.0 main tree Firebird supports all the Main Debian Architectures

All the cpus are supported now if in the next round of
buildd logs hppa and alpha cpu will be ok (green) minus the HURD thing 🙂

https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.5
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firebird2.5&suite=experimental

You can consult the list of supported architectures from last year and you can see the progress

Already ported:

Minor ports that are not supported by Debian Main but we will try to do it anyway :

m68k
hurd
avr

ps:
So you can install firebird on the phone (maemo, meego or chrooted debian on android) or on the mainframe linux (ibm s390)

Firebird Foundation recent news

October 14, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

News from the Firebird Foundation:

Wed 13 Oct 2010 09:00:00 GMT	New Platinum Sponsor	Secretary
	Development-X Ltd, of Auckland, New Zealand is a new Platinum sponsor. Thank you, Liz and Jeff Keith. Jeff tells me he is looking forward to meeting up with any Foundation members present at the IBExpert conference next month in Bremen, Germany.

Wed 6 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT	Martens & Prahl Gold Sponsorship	Secretary
	Martens & Prahl has resumed its Gold sponsorship. Thank you, Thomas Beckmann, for facilitating this.

Wed 6 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT	Revival of ODBC Driver Sponsorship	Secretary
	DRB Systems Inc. CEO Steve Summers (also our Vice-President and a Gold sponsor already) has offered a goodly sum of $$$ to encourage a “kick-start” to resume development of the ODBC driver, to complete the v.2.0 release and get the v.2.1 driver well under way. Offer is made in combination with the reassignment of the FF grant allocation for this development, which has been lying fallow for a few years. A proposal has been made to a very capable developer and we await his acceptance.

Mon 4 Oct 2010 15:00:00 GMT	Firebird 2.5 Release	Everyone
	We congratulate the Project team for releasing a great new version of Firebird today, v.2.5. We note that the Mind the Bird people are busy organising press releases and webinars to mark the day.

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