Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Recently I came across Morkif. Still haven’t lost much time with it, but it seems an integrated environment for “drag & drop” webpage development.
It combines AJAX, a small Apache Server and the Firebird database engine.
Morfik homepage
[ED: via blacklightproject.com]
Interbase/Firebird Development Studio Update 3 has been released. Added data type checks and ability to check existing databases for code errors. Added ability to activate/deactivate indices and recompile stored procedures and triggers to refresh execution plan. Improved syntax highlighting – now highlights pair brackets and begin..end blocks, and many more. Detailed list of new features and fixes are available.
More information about Interbase/Firebird Development Studio can be found here: www.sqlly.com
mvnForum is an open source, powerful, easy to use, easy to setup bulletin board (forum) built on the Java J2EE technology (Jsp/Servlet). mvnForum is compatible with any Servlet Containers which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3.
mvnFourm is free, opensource and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It means that you could use it free of charge to build your own discussion communities.
[ED: seen it via this article ]
Major plans for 2.0 – Firebird support will be added
I said AGES ago I would post my todo list and the code. So, here it is!
Deployment Files Only (464Kb)
Full Source Code (604Kb)
It is only very basic. I have included the required DLL’s, although if you compile the source one using Delphi you won’t need them.
By downloading you agree to the following disclaimer:
About:
Knoda is a KDE database-frontend for DBase, Firebird, MSAccess, MySQL, Paradox, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and ODBC.Besides tables, views, and queries, it also handles forms
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
We’ve uploaded several “get in touch” flash movies for the IB LogManager product family.
If you have never heard about IB LogManager or if you are fearly new to our IB LogManager product line, then they might get you started more efficiently.
Ruby on Rails is out with a new release of its open source Web framework with a promise: making it even easier to develop AJAX (define)-based, Web 2.0 applications. RoR needs a database to run (either MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, or Firebird) and the Apache HTTP Web server. Read more.
The IBPP License 1.0 had problems with Debian. Looking at http://www.ibpp.org/license however I see a different license.
To me it looks like Expat, with the following changes:
Stephen Boyd asked:
“Before you all go eeeewwww yuck who still uses COBOL, the answer is
lots of us. My immediate goal is to try to find out if there are many
Interbase / Firebird users who still use COBOL like we do.
[ED: you can read the full thread on Firebird-General mailing list]
