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Firebird Python driver FDB 0.9.1 is now released with fixes for Python 3.x
This release just fixes issues with 0.9 to make it work on Python 3.x
Download link:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb
Documentation is now updated daily from svn on Read The Docs
http://fdb.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
ps: for pip users
sudo pip install –upgrade fdb
Firebird Python driver FDB 0.9 is now released with Documentation and new Features
FDB release 0.9 (we’re getting close to 1.0!) is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/0.9
New Features:
* Documentation: both in-source (in Sphinx autodoc format and html)
* Services API completely reworked
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/0.9New Features:
* Documentation: both in-source (in Sphinx autodoc format and html)
* Services API completely reworked
Other changes:
* Many unregistered bugs fixed.
* Various optimizations and cleanup
* Object reference graph optimizations
* Many new tests in test suite
* Many unregistered bugs fixed.
* Various optimizations and cleanup
* Object reference graph optimizations
* Many new tests in test suite
Target for next (1.0) release: Firebird ARRAY support
News via Pavel Cisar‘s google plus page
How to upload/download files from database using Free Pascal/Lazarus
After uploading files in the previous example into database, now we need to download thouse files:
New Arabic Lazarus Free Pascal Firebird book
After the first book now translated to English : Start programming using Object Pascal Language
I’ve released my second book about FreePascal/Lazarus/Object Pascal.
Book title is Second step with object pascal. In Arabic “الخطوة الثانية مع أوبجكت باسكال”
You can download this book from here http://code.sd/secondstep
The book also contains a lot of sample applications written in Lazarus.
Chapters:
1. Memory
2. Files management
3. Relational Databases : Firebird SQL
4. Web Applications
5. Socket programming
Do you want Firebird database to be part of XAMPP?
Please vote on this survey if you agree to Firebird to become more popular in Php/Python world and to be added to the XAMPP package
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/survey-2012.html
Is #MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? time for alternatives : Firebird
The news is on slashdot Mysql is becoming slowly a closed source product.
This is the time and opportunity for firebird to grow and to become more well known , We knew from the past articles that Mysql decline will happen but it will take years (Old bad habits die hard)
Firebird #golang driver first release (Warning incomplete)
News via (Brent Rowland) tweet:
Tis code wasn’t doing anyone any good sitting on my hard drive. https://github.com/rowland/go-fb Warning: Incomplete
GladiusDB and Firebird: Databases for Your PHP Apps
In this next installment, we’ll be looking at two (arguably very contrasting) databases. The first is Gladius DB, which is a flat file database written in pure PHP. The second is Firebird, another database veteran, which has features similar to some of the better-known databases, such as Microsoft SQLServer.
So with that, let’s get going.
The article is on dzone too
Resolving Firebird performance problems (presentation)
Presentation from Firebird Developers Day 2012 is online http://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/resolving-firebird-performance-problems