Firebird related news
The traffic for firebirdsql.org according to alexa.com is gone to the roof , now is past the 40.000 threshold and it’s now at the place
~ 35.000 : the best place in all the firebirdsql.org traffic history !
Via twitter and flamerobin /firebird-devel mailing lists i have seen a lot of activity related to firebird on ArchLinux packages
Creating now 4 packages of #firebird 2.5 to #ArchLinux: SuperServer, libfbclient, ClassicServer, SuperClassic, will be in AUR when I’ll done
Arch is in top 10 most wanted distros on distrowatch
Multi-player browser game powered by Firebird is launched in the biggest Russian social network VKontakte
http://vkontakte.ru/app1952337
ReTweet from Minthebird campaign.
Marco Canto noticed that
BlackFish SQL, the .NET database installed with recent versions of Delphi, is not part of Delphi XE… and it seems Embarcadero pulled the plug on it.
Would Firebird fit the bill ? , I think it would but tell us your thoughts (pro/cons) :
I really think Delphi has lacked a local and simple option, and suggesting people to buy the cheap “Interbase To Go” or pick the free Firebird Embedded still doesn’t address the original concern. With Delphi core dataset classes and data-ware controls still bound to a navigational model, a navigational database can really make simple applications fast to write and fast to execute.
It may came as a shock but Firebird does not have direct support for neither bools nor guids. On the other hand people around Firebird are smart and came with more or less standard solutions for both.
If you saw the trend for firebird main web site then you should see the traffic stats for ibphoenix : it is now doubled
If you wonder how Firebird 2.1.3 stable can be compiled on Freebsd 8.1 wonder no more , Here is the thread with patches and instructions needed .
He does have some nice tutorials on the website with Freepascal and extJS
seems that traffic for main firebirdsql.org site doubled if you take a look at compete stats for the last year
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/firebirdsql.org/?metric=uv
Today we are (IBProvider team) overwhelmingly happy because we have finally released the final build of the 3rd version of IBProvider.
Of course, you can write it! All you need is a strong desire and 7 years of free time. Exactly the same time it took us to write the third version of IBProvider.
Please read about development results here and download new Firebird driver here:
Firebird driver developers results
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Regards, IBProvider Team.
In the new article we describe a new feature of IBProvider – supporting ADOX.Library.
There are 2 examples on Visual C# and VBScript which describe how to create Firebird database using ADODB Extensions.
See details here:
Create Firebird or Interbase database (ADOX, Visual C# .NET, VBScript)
