Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
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]
“This paper describes the architecture and requirements for implementing a relational, transaction-based storage mechanism in SAS software, a commercial business intelligence product that uses the Vulcan code base in an embedded mode.”
By Tom Cole, Platform R&D, SAS Institute Inc. (From the Firebird Conference Prague 2005). (.zip of two pdfs). Right click and save as to read.
The site ibpp.org has, again, changed.
Change of software (DokuWiki instead of MediaWiki) and change of hosting servers.
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tool:
Database Workbench 2.8.5 has been released today!
Download a trial at: http://www.upscene.com
What’s new?: http://www.upscene.com/products/dbw/whatsnew.htm
Full list of features and fixes: http://www.upscene.com/news/20060327.htm
Database Workbench supports:
Today I was glad to see the new website of Morfik Technology was unveiled. Along with a totally redesigned web site, comes the public release of a test version of the their WebOS AppsBuilder tool. These transformations probably reflect a move by Morfik, to bring the development of the WebOS AppsBuilder into the light, after being kept in the shadows for quite some time.
Ed:if you don’t know what is the link between firebird and morfik here is an e-mail interview with the Morfik team
it was recently concluded that the original authors have the copyright
on papers that were published at the Firebird Conference, so I decided
to make my paper available to the public.
Some small portion of the text is outdated (based on version 0.4.0),
but you can read about history and basic ideas around the project:
http://www.flamerobin.org/flamerobin_paper.pdf
Thanks,
Milan
Oracle-mode Firebird was presented at Developer’s GigaCon in Warsaw
http://www.konferencje.software.com.pl/devcon2006/pl/index.php
Some 400 people were present.
I’ve placed the visuals at:
http://www.firebirdnews.org/docs/papers/fyracle_wsw.pdf
They are herewith in the public domain. Use whatever part you might
like in your own presentations.
Paul
The software author wrote in his blog:
“Yesterday I’ve uploaded a small maintenance release of dbdesc.”
These are the changes and bug fixes since version 1.4″
