Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
New GSOC update for the previous week : Plenty of mountains conquered this week, also some useful work done …
Also default dialect is now 3 for the Firebird SDBC driver
http://www.ahunt.org/2013/07/firebirds-dialects/
John Tomaselli wrote on his blog about his main stack:
I’m going to post my latest project I’m working on and will go back to publish some older works that might be of interest to the community. About a year ago I attended an AngularJS meetup at Google’s NY office and since then have completely changed my development stack. Angular is an awesome approach to developing client side web applications and has truly changed my development life. Of course I needed a back end that supported Firebird. This is where Nodejs comes in and helps explain the gap between posts as it’s taken some time to become proficient with all these new developments. There is a lot to learn and fortunately for those just jumping in, the resources since I began are maturing at a rapid rate (see pluralsight training, eggheadio, books etc) .
The Main Stack:
The transaction simulator uses either scripts or random commands to simulate the Firebird database versioning system and the result of the simulator are checked with Firebird’s outputs. Read committed and Snapshot transactions are presented. Some remarks about long transactions and Firebird slowdown caused by transactions
For the moment only the code , soon we will have also a blogpost about it
This is a complete demonstration of express.io, passport, passport.socketio, firebird sql and angular.
You can follow the GSOC 2013 LibreOffice Firebird connector blog with it’s initial post and follow up
Also on LibreOffice devel list there is a LibreOffice Firebird integration thread.
The git log is hosted on feature/firebird-sdbc branch in libo tree.
Update: A weekly status was posted for previous week
I got the following status update from Dmitry Yemanov, regarding the Firebird’s protocol enhancement task that is being sponsored by FDD:
I’m working on it from time to time. One of the TODO items is completed,
one more improvement came to mind and now it’s being tested. So it’s
surely will be available in FB3, at some point after Alpha 1 but before
Beta 1.
I think this is good news!
Jiří Činčura wrote about his experience with Firebird Embedded and Azure Websites
To sum up. Firebird Embedded works well in Windows Azure Websites. If you need fully featured SQL database for zero extra-money with option to go hassle-free to full server if the need comes, it’s a way to go.
Mark Rotteveel wrote on Firebird-Java group : I updated the Jaybird roadmap to outline the basic plans for Jaybird
2.3. You can find it on
http://jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org/jaybird/doku.php?id=info:roadmap
I will probably add more detail in the future.
Mark
The Firebird Book (Second Edition) is now available as a print on demand book (at createspace) in three parts,
Volume 1: Firebird Fundamentals
https://www.createspace.com/4203352
Volume 2: Developing with Firebird Data
https://www.createspace.com/4206843
Volume 3: Administering Firebird Servers and Databases
https://www.createspace.com/4206991
Also and also in electronic format (e-book) on the Developer DVD or as an immediate download. It covers Firebird upto Firebird V2.5.x.
Anybody purchasing the DVD gets a download link immediately,
and the DVD is sent later as a backup hard copy, along with a lot of other useful stuff.
