Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
Rails developers working on enterprise software projects are suprised to discover the lack of automated tests in many mature web applications. As frustrating as this can be, A lack of automated tests is also a tremendous opportunity to
I knew 9 years of IB/FB experience would come in handy. [ED:wordpress firebird conversion in progress]
“Scribus is an open-source
program that brings award-winning professional page layout to
Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination
of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.”
I guess patent “protection” apply to firebird too
Oracle has signed a patent agreement with the Open Invention Network (OIN).
This is the complete issue containing Python User Group highlights, interviews, more on coding idioms, and an academic paper on the Firebird Database. (Revision 2)
Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues:
Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.
By default, Firebird stores backup files on local disk, but using GBak you can use something like the following to backup a remote database, locally.
PHP Interbase Extension Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
BugTraq ID: 22976
Remote: Yes
Date Published: 2007-03-15
Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22976
via michele de meo’s blog [ED:article is written in Italian language]
