Firebird related news
Here is my guide on using the latest stable release for Lazarus and latest free pascal compiler (2.2.2) on Ubuntu intrepid/hardy Also after that install firebird related components and seems to work very well (tested the db aware components)
In this paper the author will discuss about the Firebird database, from the introduction of Firebird itself, with the installation until its implementation.(Indonesian language)
The changes in this release are as follows:
The LCL now uses Unicode strings encoded as UTF-8 on all platforms.
Lazarus now runs natively under Mac OS X using the “Carbon” widget
set. The LCL internal graphic system was rewritten for more
consistency, more flexibility, better Delphi compatibility, icon
support, and native image lists. The IDE designer now allows you to
connect form components, like databases on TDataModule.
Lazarus can be used with Firebird and there are many components to choose UIB, Zeos , FbLib , PDO…
Dmitry Kuzmenko has an interesting post in his blog that tries to describe what is the “Firebird Project” and “Firebird Foundation” (as well its papers in the whole thing). Also, it has some interesting statistics about downloads and installations, ie:
…But it stands more than 5000 visits every day and log more than 1000 installations at Windows platform per day (!), according to the statistics of the installer’s ‘landing page’. Also there are more than 1 mln downloads of all Firebird installers and other files per year from the sourceforge.
Read the full post.
Luis wrote on firebird-php : Hi, check the following address [1] where you can download a PHP class that make CRUD operations on a Firebird/Interbase table.
Still needs much work to do …
Suggestions, modifications and corrections are welcome.
Thanks to Felipe Pena for fixing many php bugs related to firebird extension . This is an example how bug has been fixed in CVS.
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45373
Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
Mono’s 2.0 grand release has finally arrived.
See detailed release notes covering both the 2.0 launch and the changes since Mono 1.9.
Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0 for your platform.
Also you must use Firebird DotNet Provider 2.5 with Firebird 2.1 .
Here are my notes on Ubuntu Intrepid
This is my first released backup script for Firebird RDBMS. It automagically search for all Firebird databases from a central directory, uses gfix to validate them, then backup + gzip them to a central backup directory keeping only 5 last successful backups.
It may be used as a cron script to automate Firebird databases backup.
Article submitted by Anton Kavalenka.
Firebird SQL server is popular because it is free, open, lightweight and secure. Firebird is based on the Interbase SQL server, and can be accessed by the same client libraries.
FlameRobin is a X-platform GUI application that makes the life of Firebird/Interbase admins easier. It’s a very light-weight solution (implemented with wxWidgets) as opposed to Tora, which tries to be universal, but is very huge and takes a while to load. FlameRobin starts almost instantly, but being lightweight doesn’t mean to be poor in features. Some of them are:
