Thread of the day in FB2: embedded server as network client not possible
I read in the FB 2 release notes:
“In Firebird 2.0, use of the embedded server as a network client is no
longer possible.”
Category: General news
Firebird related news
The World’s Largest Firebird Gathering
This Saturday the 4th Firebird Developer’s Day brought together about 600 Firebird users who attended 14 different sessions. Among the speakers were Holger Klemt, owner of H-K software (IBExpert), Nikolay Samofatov, CTO of Red Soft and Dmitri Kouzmenko, Director of IBase.ru and CEO of IBSurgeon.
Keeping with the tradition of having over 500 attendees Firebird Developer’s Day, in Brazil, continues to be the largest gathering of Firebird users in the world.
Firebird Maestro 7.7 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.7, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features:
- Unicode/UTF-8 data management.
- Since this version Firebird Maestro works fine with embedded Firebird server.
- Transaction Browser is implemented (Firebird 2.1). This feature is very useful for DBAs who want to monitor the users’ activity.
- Support of database triggers from Firebird 2.1 is added to the software.
- Database Designer: a possibility of locking/unlocking diagram objects is added.
- It is now possible to execute SQL scripts after connect and before disconnect to/from a database.
There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4443/
waiting for the firebird storm
Storm is an object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python developed at Canonical. The project has been in development for more than a year for use in Canonical projects such as [WWW] Launchpad, and has recently been released as an open-source product.
Who knows maybe an firebird port will be made for it
1st Firebird Rendez-vous video broadcast
There will be a Firebird Rendez-vous inside the Libre Software Meeting next 12
of July
For those who cannot come to Amiens in France, there will be a video brodcasting
More information here :
http://www.rmll.info/rubrique10.html?lang=en
(Martijn and Paul Session will be in English, others in French)
FirebirdClient v2.5.0 Alpha 1 released.
FirebirdClient v2.5.0 Alpha 1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.
Is time to vote firebird in SF Community Choice Awards 2007
Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/
News via phoronix.com
Linux Gains Windows Muscle with LAMP/WAMP/FLAP/FWAP stack
One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free — alternatives to traditional solutions.
[ED: no wonder that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year]
Morfik Announces Support for iPhone Development
This week Morfik Technologies announced that its WebOS AppsBuilder web development tool supports the creation of applications for the iPhone. The first sample application is a chess game.
Morfik uses Firebird as its default, built-in, database.
More details and comments on ReadWriteWeb.
Composite Primary Keys Version 0.8.6 on Ruby on Rails (with ActiveRecords)
Ruby on Rails does not support composite primary keys. This free software is an extension to the database layer of Rails – ActiveRecords – to support composite primary keys as transparently as possible.
[ED:Article Via http://flex-builder.blogspot.com/2007/06/chave-primria-composta_22.html]