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Firebird(Client) with Silverlight
I tried build FirebirdClient in Silverlight environment and I failed. I expected to fail after some attempts with modifications and using only subset of features like i.e for Compact Framework, but this was really fast. Silverlight is only subset of .NET Framework. And one crucial part is not there, it’s System.Data stuff and without it you can drop major part of any ADO.NET provider’s code.
Fat Binaries of V2.1.3 for #MacOSX 10.5+ #intel 32/64bit are available
For those you wanted to test :
Fat Binaries of Firebird V2.1.3 for MacOSX 10.5+ (intel 32/64bit) are available for
download and testing.
http://ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_download_test
Developers are preparing 2.5 Release Candidate 1
Here is the message on Firebird-devel list about the branch freezing
#Qt 4.5.3 Released with Firebird #Database fixes
Qt 4.5.3 is now available. 4.5.3 is a patch level release providing various bug-fixes over the 4.5.2 release that we issued in late-June.
You can see the full changelog here
with the related Firebird fix (Database Drivers section)
– Fixed ::record for dialect 3 named tables in interbase/firebird.
News from the Firebird Foundation
| Wed 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT | Bill Oliver Funds Another Week | Secretary |
| Bill Oliver, of SAS, who started a new tradition a few months ago, of donating a “one-week run” of cash for development, has done it again! Thanks, Bill! Any others interested in funding a week? A sum of around $2,100 to $2,300 will do it. | ||
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| Mon 21 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT | Annual General Meeting Announced | Vice-President |
| Our Annual General Meeting will start on Monday 12 October 2009 at Noon GMT. The Agenda is available and will be built up as reports and nominations come to hand.
It is TIME to step forward if you wish to indicate that you are available to serve on the new committee. Nominations will be required for the executive offices of President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. In addition, nominations may be made for non-executive positions. You can link through to the launch page for nominations from the Agenda. |
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| Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:06:00 GMT | Pavel Cisar Relinquishes Grant | Committee |
| Pavel Cisar, who has been using the grant allocation for development of QA tests for releases for some years, is relinquishing the grant from November forward. It doesn’t mean Pavel is giving up his task, though: he will carry on with his work. Philippe Makowski, who is the project’s other QA tester, already gave up his grant several months ago. | ||
Old news here.
ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 20 released
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 20 has released. Visit here for more details.
Changes:
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Fix a bug where fill in a full length of WideString data to char or varchar field may cause last character missing
Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
How to build firebird on #Windows7 64-bit – tips
Interesting tips on how to build 32bit firebird on 64bit Windows7 (You need to dig the thread)
#Django firebird backend progress
FirebirdNews – Now integrated with OpenID, etc.
Now, if you have an account with Google, OpenID, Yahoo or Blogger, you can login and post comments to FirebirdNews without the need to create a local account! This simplifies a lot the login/account handling process, and I hope we will start to see much more comments to the posts!
To use the new feature, just click the “log in” link (at the SideBar “Meta” section) and choose what provider you wanna use.
If you already have a local FirebirdNews account, sign-in using your local username/password, edit your profile, and use the option to link your local account to any of the supported log-in providers, and you are done!