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Otherwise you might want consider buying the supplement
directly from the IBPhoenix shop.

The Supplement follows the format and layout of the original book,
to make it easy to print out sections and insert them into your
hard copy of the main book. Where applicable, the Errata for the
main book are appended to the respective Supplement chapter.
They can be printed out as lone pages if you wish to tape the
Errata to the applicable pages.

Icons are used throughout to draw your attention to Firebird 2
changes and features that might affect your legacy databases
and applications when migrating. In appropriate places, page
references to the main book are given as a reference to
background information.

Appendix X (Error Codes) and Appendix XI (Reserved Words)
have both been completely updated so that you have an
complete on-hand reference to these sets. New character
sets and collations appear in Appendix VIII.

More details on the supplement can be found at:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_firebird_book

Regards
Paul

Paul Beach

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What is Google Summer of Code?

Google Summer of CodeTM is a program that offers student developers
stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be
working with a several open source, free software and technology-related
groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period.
Historically, the program has brought together over 1,000 students with
over 100 open source projects, to create hundreds of thousands of lines
of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its third
year, following on from a very successful 2006.

Are there some tasks in or around Firebird that could be submitted? I
believe there are many students out there who would love to join in the
DBMS project and learn about DB internals.

http://code.google.com/soc/

I’m posting to firebird-devel as most developers hang out here and they
best know about task that could be delegated. Also, one of the
developers would have to be mentor to those joining the project.

—
Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org

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There is a UNOFFICIAL channel now for Firebird and related stuff on
freenode.net, #firebird. I welcome any and all interested or working
with Firebird to come stop by.

Info on clients, how to connect, etc would be provided if this was a
good announcement. But it’s not 😉

This might help some
http://freenode.net/faq.shtml

But really irc clients are not hard to come by for any OS. I tend to use
gaim, or at times xchat, or bitchx. Beyond that most know of
freenode.net, if not the info should be in the FAQ, or online somewhere.

Otherwise just wanted to mention it. If others show more interest or I
get more time. I will see about a more formal announcement. Maybe this
is enough?

Either way know you know. 🙂

—
William L. Thomson Jr.
Gentoo/Java

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