Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
ZeosLib – New bug tracker and SVN snapshot downloads
We‘re very happy to see you’re intensively testing version 6.6.
To make testing and bug reporting easier we decided to change a few things.
[ED: There are good guides for using Zeos components with Firebird+Delphi and Lazarus too]
Vuln: Firebird Remote Pre-Authentication Database Name Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
Old vulnerability surfaced up from the deep . If you have an old Firebird 1.5.x please upgrade to latest version
ps: seems that securityfocus is updating their own vuln database so this is why it surfaced up again (the bug was squashed long long time ago)
MDO – an alternative set of components for Delphi/Firebird
Edson Lidorio wrote an small intro to MDO components (original version is in portuguese)
Moving firebird from windows to linux
In this guide Juan Carbajal is showing us how to move firebird databases from windows to linux , guide is written in spanish again
howto connect openoffice.org 2.x to firebird – guide in spanish
Some of the really interesting stuff with Firebird 2.0 – blog of the day jclement
I’ve been playing with Firebird 2.0 a bit the last couple days. I had played with it in the past (version 1.5) and loved it. Version 2.0 is even better.
Turbo Delphi Interbase/Firebird Tutorial -by Felix John COLIBRI
abstract of the tutorial : developing database applications, using Turbo Delphi .Net and Interbase [ED: main ideas can be applied to firebird instead of interbase server – just use the FirebirdClient .Article does have very nice graphics with general architecture and that is why i linked to it]
How to use BLOB field in VB 6 with Firebird
Pabloj wrote in his blog: As per this post on Devshed forums I’m pasting here some sample code (taken from Mike Hillyer’s excellent “Accessing MySQL BLOB columns using Visual Basic 6“), hope it helps.
Firebird database, VS 2005 and Vista
Peter’s Gekko wrote :”Just like last time getting the Firebird database working on my new machine was a long way of trial and error.”