Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
The other options is that open source developers will put their eyes into other open source databases, maybe those with less restrictive licences (Firebird come to mind, but I’m biased here).
Read the full post.
The Firebird Development Team released Firebird 2.1.2 this week. This sub-release focus on stability. There are no big changes, they’re all in store for Firebird 2.5, but it is important nonetheless. The list of bugs fixed is impressive.
on Paul Beach’s blog
Part of one of the things that I wanted to check was what malloc was doing. However by default any “error” messages get sent to standard out, however you can set the environment variable MallocLogFile to capture messages to a specified file.
Did you ever think about how cool would be to have fully featured SQL database, without installation (just xcopy) and with Entity Framework support?
I was wondering whether the Entity Framework support I’m creating in FirebirdClient will work with Embedded version. Taking into account that the communication layers are under the EF support, there should be no problem. But you’ll never be sure until you try it. 😉 And it works.
Part two of the Delphi and pagination article , this time with TCollections
In my previous article, I wrote about a method to paginate data shown in a ListView.
Now, I want to extend its reach by replacing TDataSets by TCollections.
Via Leonardo’s Delphi and FreePascal blog
This is one of those things I needed for ages, but didn’t bothered to implement
because I thought it could require an unnecessary amount of work, and allways
opted for a less perfectionist method.I’m talking about a method to retrieve data in Pages, then browse it in a ListView
transparently for the user.
Transcripts of the presentations from the 2008 Firebird Conference in Bergamo, Italy, are now available for free download. Registration required first.
Another happy Firebird and Python user and programmer
For more than a year I’m employed by a company called Smantics Kommunikationsmanagement GmbH as a Python developer. The company offers multiple services related to communcation and its management in our modern world. Most of the time I’m working on the server part of a software stack called Visual Library.
The heart of the Visual Library software stack is a Python driven web application server. It’s built on top of CherryPy framework and driven by a Firebird database. The server utilizes a cornucopia of open source third party packages as well as commercial and proprietary software. The most noticable Python packages are lxml for XML and XSL(T), reportlab for PDF creation, Cython for optimization / library bindings and PyLucene for full text search.
Here is the tutorial
Firebird is supported by PHP, and Delphi for PHP can support it, but it can’t out of the box.
What is not well documented about a Delphi for PHP to Firebird connection, is the fact that names of libraries can overlap in WIndows.
In this first post, I’d put a foreword to clarify situation.
After I received a lot of heat about my post regarding why I find MySQL to be so bad (part I) – (mostly behind the scenes), I decided to also write something about Firebird SQL.
