Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
I have wrote the steps in compiling php_interbase.dll with using the Firebird 2.5 binaries here but if you want to debug the Firebird client dll or the engine you should follow these steps (requires full Firebird 2.5.x compilation)
If you want to build only Firebird 2.5 with a free beer compiler i have created a video where i describe and show the steps that you need to follow
If you check the Firebird-checkins list you can observe that Firebird core development is done using SVN as software version control system.
To check out trunk all you need to do is read the subversion guide at sourceforge and here is how i have done it on my debian machine
svn co https://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/firebird/firebird/trunk firebird
Seems to be a popular (12th place on DistroWatch ) distro based on Debian
Firebird-2.5 will be available this evening in the MEPIS 8.5 testing Community Repository.
Here is the new version (0.2.0.39) for FirebirdConfig and there are new webpages for it in English and Spanish
Via twitter JhonnySuarezG
#FirebirdConfig for #Firebird in english http://is.gd/e6fdT #mindthebird
Firebird has a feature allowing you to specify tables you want to lock (read or write and exclusive/protected/shared) when starting transaction so now is proper implemented in .net provider snapshots
At FDD’2010 Dmitry Kuzmenko has presented 2 presentations – the first one about approach to maintain big databases (50-400Gb) in the right way and the second is about restore speed tests.
IBSurgeon is offering an one year license of FB Dataguard for free to anyone participating in the MindTheBird campaign. Check the details here.
Offer valid until 10/August/2010.
The Brazilian Firebird Developers Day was able to collect R$ 4.500 as donations to Firebird Foundation. Money was already transfered. I wish to thanks all the donors! This is the biggest value ever collected at FDD.
Hello All,
Good news for all MindTheBird participants – Nucleon Software http://www.nucleonsoftware.com offers free license of there “Database Master” software for all participants of MindTheBird.
If you would like to get such license, please send to free at mindthebird.com email with the following information: “FirstName”, “LastName”, E-Mail, optionally Company name, and get free license of DatabaseMaster (they will be sent in 2-3 work days).
We encourage all tools vendor to run similar programs for MindTheBird participants, and, of course, we ask everyone to join MindTheBird! to support Firebird and to get benefits and prizes.
To join MindTheBird! you just need to put one of MindTheBird! banners or presentations (http://www.mindthebird.com/downloadmtb.html) to your web-site or blog, link it to www.mindthebird.com or to www.firebirdsql.org and send us link to this page for verification.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team
Jiří {x2} Činčura created an example with Entity Framework 4 CTP4
Let’s model some kind of simple library and try to use there couple of Entity Framework’s features. And to make things worse, try to do it with ADO.NET provider for Firebird.Good news is I succeeded. My database structure was my first and non-touchable object (to be honest the first was the idea what to create and how to represent it in database) together with the idea of objects.
