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Firebird related news
Dmitry Yemanov will be speaking at FDD
Dmitry Yemanov will be speaking at the Firebird Developers Day. This is the first time Dmitry is coming to the Brazilian conference. Holger Klemt (HK Software/IBExpert) and Dmitri Kouzmenko (IBSurgeon) are the other international speakers that will be (once more) speaking in FDD. The one-day-conference will be held in Piracicaba-SP, at 19/July, and is organized/promoted by FireBase.
Firebird 2.1 for Gentoo released
Lucky situation
I’m in the extremely lucky situation that I’ve just started a brand new project, in which I can choose technology. A part of the project is to replace an old Web Project written in Delphi 5 ! and a larger part is going to be new. The main bulk of the project is going to as a web application run on portable barcode readers in a production enviroment. Speed is important.
Firebird 2.1 RPMs for Fedora
Firebird 2.1 RPMs for Fedora 8 and 9 distributions are available from tigro repository, both for i386 and x86_64, thanks Arkady Shejn.
Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL – time for alternatives like firebird
“From the MySQL User’s Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base.”
Read the rest of the article on slashdot
There are many posts about firebird too
Also another interesting blog about this community split
News from the Firebird Foundation
A bunch of news was posted to the Foundation Blogs:
| Thu 10 Apr 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Fund-raising for Website Redevelopment | Secretary |
| The fund-raising instigated by Martijn Tonies has brought in about $1,850 US in pledges, of which about $1,417 US in actual cash has been collected and held in the FF accounts as “earmarked”. In its recent meeting the committee intended to discuss what to advise about publicising Martijn’s campaign. It was on the Agenda but Alas! the item got submerged in a mountain of other business.
The web page has been moved into a public area of the main website and Martijn has been invited via the FFMembers list to come up with his ideas for moving forward with his idea. |
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| Wed 9 Apr 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Firebird Conference 2008 | Committee |
| Fabio Codebue and some colleagues have indicated that they would like to stage the 2008 Firebird International Conference in Italy, in the historic town of Bergamo, about 40 Km north-east of Milan. (Yes, it does have a funicular railway!) The current plan is to hold the conference in the Northern Autumn, from Thursday Sept 25th until Saturday 27th. There are no details yet but watch the Events page for links. | ||
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| Tue 8 Apr 2008 7:00:00 GMT | Ideas Board | Secretary |
We’ve added an “Ideas Board” to our site – a place where ideas and suggestions can be aired. Two items there to kick it off are:
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| Wed 2 Apr 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Trademark Blacklist | Committee |
| As owner of the Firebird name and trademarks, the FF is obliged to chase offenders and take whatever action is necessary to try to stop them. We are currently encountering a blatant trademark theft problem by a company in Auckland, New Zealand, which ignores our request to stop this violation of our trademark rights. We have begun a Black List of incalcitrant violators and Silicon Dream Ltd has the honour of being its first member. Let’s hope the Web search engines will help where Polite Sweet Reason fails! | ||
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| Fri 14 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Changes to Honorary Memberships | Committee |
| Carlos Guzmán Álvarez, until the end of 2007 the coordinator of the .NET Provider drivers (and their primary coder), left the project and handed responsibility over to Jiri Cincura. Carlos’ Honorary membership was thus vacated.
We are all sorry to see Carlos depart and to know that his current work takes him away from Firebird. We wish him well and thank him for his dedication to these drivers and their users, over many years. We welcome Jiri Cincura into his new role and have awarded him an Honorary membership. |
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| Fri 7 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Trademark FAQ | Committee |
| Last year Roman Rokytskyy began convening a sub-committee to develop a formal policy for the Foundation with regard to use of our Firebird trademarks. This is still work in progress, recently handicapped somewhat by the departure or absence of one or two participants. In the interim, we have added a new “Branding FAQ” page to our site and linked it from the main Firebird “Licensing/Legal” item on the top menu. | ||
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| Wed 5 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT | Funding for Documentation | Committee |
| The Committee has been considering how it might get some funding started to encourage the progress of the Firebird Docs sub-project. Stefan Heymann and some others have sounded out the Docs coordinator Paul Vinkenoog about the idea and everyone seems to favour it. We will try to get our heads together and figure out details. | ||
PC factory test tool runs Linux/PHP and firebird
The appliance is based on an unspecified hardware platform from MBX running Gentoo Linux, the Apache web server, PHP scripting, and the open source Firebird SQL database.
How To Get Firebird / Interbase Connected Users
In some tasks we need to know how many users are connected to the database. And even which users are connected… There is an interesting piece of code with which you may achieve this this. It is an additional source file written for ZeosDBO 6.1.3 library. It only works with Firebird 1.5. But it can be easy modified for another Firebird/Interbase server.
Kinterbase 3.3 snapshots
http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/snapshots/3.3/
You can read this thread about this release where Pavel Cisar explains his role for kinterbase project
