Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
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.
Here is the guide (in Italian) for installing Firebird and Python driver on Ubuntu
Read this and a lot of news about the next Delphi version(s) at Rob’s Technology Corner
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) event organized by Firebird group in Japan
Here is the article with what is new in Firebird , I used google translate to read what is all about
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
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!!”
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).
JbConsole is a Firebird console tool. I have tested with Jython 2.5b3 and Jaybird 2.1.6 .
(java 1.6 on Windows XP and java 1.5 on OS X 10.5)
It’s still toy level, but it seems to be sample implementation of Jaybird and Jython.
http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nakagami/Download/JbConsole_0_2_0.zip
See the screen shot
http://nakagami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-02-09
ED:Translated with google , I like his words about Jython
Swing and Java (JVM) I fast. 驚いた。 I was surprised.
