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Firebird related news
Tunnelling a Firebird Backup with SSH
SSH is a wonderful piece of software. I found (hum, Philippe, the CentOS package maintainer, president of the Firebird Foundation and member of the QA team of Firebird helped me to find) how to create a SSH tunnel through I can run a distant Firebird backup.
What is sort? Part 1 and 2 articles
Dmitry Kuzmenko wrote on his own blog
Inspired by discussion about sorting (PLAN SORT), did some simple tests. Right now I do not have “an article” about this, but want to show you some discovered facts : in Part one and Part two
Flamerobin 0.9.2 packages into Fedora Linux and epel repository
Flamerobin 0.9.2 packages are into Fedora (10 and 11) and into Epel (4 and 5)
They will be soon into repositories.
hopes it please Fedora, Centos and RHEL Flamerobin users.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/flamerobin
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/flamerobin
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Philippe Makowski
http://www.ibphoenix.com
Supporting users of Firebird
New IBProvider version with enhanced Firebird 2.5 support
New IBProvider Professional 3.0.0.7270 version has appeared.
Following changes were implemented:
- Commands cancellation support in Firebird 2.5 and Interbase 6.5.
- Support of new data type SQL_NULL in Firebird 2.5.
- Access to BLOB fields from ADOExpress (dbGo) bug was fixed.
- New implementation of result sets cache.
Detailed release description and code samples of the Firebird 2.5 implemented features available here: IBProvider RC4 3.0.0.7270
Firebird Weekly News #2
This edition contains the firebird related news from week 1-7 June
Under the Firebird umbrella – updates
Now is added identica group
twitter group also the #firebird irc channel on freenode.net
http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=umbrella
Also added firebirdsql.ro (we will move the server – sometimes doesn’t responds these days)
Firebird Weekly News #1
This is the weekly firebird related news from 25-31 May
What to expect from next Delphi versions? (good news to Firebird)
Extracted from the special edition of Blaze Pascal magazine:
Project Weaver (próxima versão do Delphi, já em beta)
- Main Themes
- User Experience
- Enhance Connectivity
- Documentation
- IDE usability
- Team Productivity
- Touch
- IDE – Insight (easy Keyboard access to almost everything)
- Improvements to DataSnap
- Firebird Support
- .NET AOP
- SCM Support
- Enhanced RTTI Support
- Attribute Support
- Seamless .NET and Native communication
- Windows 7 APIs and Direct 2D
- Full Support of SOAP 1.2 Clients
Project X
- Cross-platform Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
- Cross-platform component library
- DataSnap on all platforms
Project Chromium
- Quality enhancements
- Pascal Code Formatter
- Documentation of the OTA
- New Data binding model allowing binding to almost any property on a control
- More integration with the database tools.
Project Commodore
- 64 Bit native
- Full compiler, RTL and VCL support for 64 native
- Multi-Core. Multi-threaded applications.
FirebirdClient 2.5 Final released
I’m happy to announce, after about 47 000 000 seconds of thinking and development, release of FirebirdClient 2.5. This new shiny release contains … [read more]