Firebird ODBC Acrobat and JavaScript
Question of the day on Firebird odbc driver list
has anyone used JavaScript in PDF-Forms with the ODBC driver?
I can’t retrieve any values from the database.
ps: maybe the driver is not configured OK
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
Firebird: Deal with Unavailable Database
When you get “unavailble database” error prompt connecting to Firebird service is annoying and difficult to trace. Sometime it works and sometime it doesn’t. We don’t know when it works and when it doesn’t Here is guide to trace the issue.
Python & Firebird on Ubuntu
Here is the guide (in Italian) for installing Firebird and Python driver on Ubuntu
Next Delphi will have official Firebird support
Read this and a lot of news about the next Delphi version(s) at Rob’s Technology Corner
TurboPhp is now OpenSource (with firebird support)
The visual development tool for PHP web applications written in Delphi
See the new project page, download the source code, check the Wiki, and start developing!
The example is great and simple like in Delphi, I have seen this news via ExtPascal group
Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) conference
Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) event organized by Firebird group in Japan
What is new in Firebird 2.5 – article in Czech
Here is the article with what is new in Firebird , I used google translate to read what is all about
php5.3 drivers for firebird and pdo on Fedora 10/11
Please PHP users tests this repository for fedora linux 10/11 also for Centos 5.3
http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2009/05/08/PHP-5.3.0-RC2-en
if you find bug, report here : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499036
64 bit Firebird 2.5, and Solaris Sparc
Looks like the job is already done… Paul wrote on the blog . It was posted on devel-mailing list related to solaris threading using pthreads
“I confirm that the issues are fixed in HEAD. I confirmed this on 64-bit Solaris Sparc, built with the Sun Studio native compiler – using pthreads!!!”
How cool is that! Thanks very much guys for the quick turn-around.
Also, big thanks to Alex for his assitance with this port!!”
Microfocus buys Borland
Marco Cantu published in his blog that Borland (the previous owner of InterBase) was acquired by Microfocus. Read more here.
Note that InterBase, Delphi and all the other development tools owned previously by Borland was aquired by Embarcadero sometime ago (when they bought CodeGear).