Firebird related news
No! No piracy here! Just access the World eBook Fair site from 4/July to 4/Aug and you will be able to download many ebooks (from the 300,000 publications catalog) for free and with no need for registration. You may try search for some words like programming, databases, sql, etc.
“Firebird 2“, my new book devoted only to the new features of Firebird 2.0 will be released at the Firebird Developers Day Conference, in Brazil at July, 29. The book is written in portuguese and will be sold with special price during the conference.
There are two new members of the .NET Provider project:
Jiri Cincura: Will handle the nigthly build process for the .NET
Provider, DDEX, …
Le Roy Arnaud: Will be the mantainer of the ASP.NET Web Providers.
Weekly builds of FB ADO.NET Provider (only) are available on http://netprovider.cincura.net/ .
C# compiler from MS .NET FW 2.0 is used, builds using Mono, etc. will come too.
Comments and request are welcome and can be send to firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net (or to me/Carlos).
And we are growing , if you have something to say related to firebird please contribute
We have to reach 100K pretty soon , then 1M visitors 😉
Another way to help is to spread the word , Link us on digg.com or any other sites (slashdot, linuxtoday, osnews )
or put an firebirdnews button on your own sites (we need more friends sites)
Florian Müller’s memoir-style book has been released under the Creative Commons license this month.
On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July last year with a landslide vote of the European Parliament against a proposal for a software patent directive.
The book is now available on the Internet for download:
http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/NoLobbyistsAsSuch.pdf
[ED: spotted on the planet mysql , is interesting that now Redhat fights against an patent pirrate FireStar for basically “accessing an database” ]
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EMS Software Development company is pleased to announce Data Generator 2005 ver.2.2 – new version of the powerful utility for generating test data for Firebird and InterBase databases. The opportunity to connect through SSH and HTTP tunnels has been added, new data generation options and speed improvements have been made in the latest program version. You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/datagenerator/download |
A new list has been created for those wishing to share their
experiences about deploying Firebird databases in big networked enterprises.
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-enterprise/
Helen
Finally we have moved to our new server in Canada, thanks to the generosity of Broadview Software. More news shortly about our other new server, running a Firebird back-end and our new tracker system. [Ed: this server is way faster than sf.net watch the Alexa’s Site Stats ]
Dear developers
Microtec is pleased to announce a new version of CopyCat, our Delphi /
C++Builder component set for database replication.
CopyCat can be used for integrating replication functionality into your
applications, or for making your own customized replicators, enabling
off-site database work, asynchronous work over slow connections,
automatic live backup, etc.
For information about CopyCat, see http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/cc
For a list of changes in the latest version, see
http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/cc/Support.htm
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Best regards,
Jonathan Neve
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CopyTiger – advanced database replicator for Interbase/Firebird!
Web : http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/ct
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CopyCat – database replication components for Delphi/C++Builder!
Web : http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/cc
