Django 1.3 released , Firebird driver updated
The version in 1.3 branch passes all of the tests and works with latest version of Django
ps:One little observation, the trunk version just works with django 1.2.x.
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
SQL Workbench/J – Java / Jdbc based tool
SQL Workbench/J is a free, DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL query tool. It is written in Java and thus it should run on any operating system that provides a Java Runtime Environment.
It can be used with Firebird jdbc driver
Firebird 2.1.4 packages are now in #Mandriva 2010.2 contrib/testing
Annoucement by Philippe Makowski on Twitter:
#firebird 2.1.4 packages are in #Mandriva 2010.2 contrib/testing
PHP 5.3.6 released with changes for Windows users :VC++6 builds disabled
Officially VC++6 builds are dead (There are community builds but unsupported by core php developers)
Here is the announcement
Windows users: please mind that we do no longer provide builds created with Visual Studio C++ 6. It is impossible to maintain a high quality and safe build of PHP for Windows using this unmaintained compiler.
For Apache SAPIs (php5_apache2_2.dll), be sure that you use a Visual Studio C++ 9 version of Apache. We recommend the PHP builds as provided by ApacheLounge. For any other SAPI (CLI, FastCGI via mod_fcgi, FastCGI with IIS or other FastCGI capable server), everything works as before.Third party extension providers must rebuild their extensions to make them compatible and loadable with the Visual Studio C++9 builds that we no longer provide.
Entity Framework v4.1 Code First and Firebird
Jiří Činčura wrote on his blog : I’m using Entity Framework’s 4.1 (currently in CTP stage) Code First with Firebird. If you’re a bit lazy and you’re specifying only required minimum on information to run the mapping, you might quickly face one problem.
Initial review of Firebird 3 – Presentation
Firebird 3.0 Initial Review and Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/initial-review-of-firebird-3
In this presentation Dmitry Yemanov, lead architect of Firebird Project, introduces the key advantages of upcoming major release of Firebird 3.
Meta.com.au Goes Bitweaver and Firebird
Meta has finally converted to Bitweaver and Firebird for website CMS and datastore respectively.
meta has used Joomla for several years to deliver corporate website information and client access to private areas and downloads. But finally Bitweaver has delivered a comprehensive CMS and web application framework backed by Firebird. We regard this as a major advancement in support of Firebird, Bitweaver and the opensource software movement.
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Read more of my journey here Firebird Bitweaver Windows and PHP
And find out some of the website feature which can make your use of this resource more appealing
Extracting glibc info in #Linux to see if is greater or equal with 2.7
Related to previous announcement:If you are on ubuntu and your ubuntu release is greater than Hardy (8.04) you are safe , on other distributions you can determine this way the glibc version
You must run the /lib/libc.so.6 and it will return the glibc version
in the first row.
In ubuntu or any debian based distro
/lib/libc.so.6 | head -n 1
GNU C Library (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.13-0ubuntu1) stable release version
2.13, by Roland McGrath et al.
in this case glibc is 2.13
and is builded from eglibc sources
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc
another option is dpkg interrogation
dpkg -l libc6
on rpm based distros
rpm -q glibc
ps: other alternative ways
Important! Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superclassic on Linux
From www.firebirdsql.org:
It has been found that V.2.5 Classic for Linux has problems with AST delivery if used with glibc 2.5. With glibc 2.7 it works properly. The situation with glibc 2.6 is unknown for now. If your glibc version is lower than v.2.7, it must be upgraded before using Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superclassic.
Firebird usage with SchemaSpy – Java based Graphical Database Schema Metadata Browser
On devshed firebird forum someone asked if anyone used SchemaSpy with firebird , and later he got it working , here is the command line option (after installing jaybird.jar)
1) Download the ZIP file for jaybird
2) unzip it
3) Copy the file jaybird-full-2.1.6.jar into a convenient directory
4) specify the full path to the .jar file when starting schema spy
java -jar /home/java/schemaSpy_5.0.0.jar -t firebird -db /var/lib/firebird/2.1/data/employee.fdb -s schema -u SYSDBA -p ******* -o /home/firebird/ -port 3050 -host localhost -dp /home/user/jaybird-full-2.1.6.jar
ps:that is a single line