Creating firebird users in delphi
Here is the google translation of the original article
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
How do we counteract this perception of Firebird being leaderless?
Paul Beach Response to Forrester’s article about Firebird
As with any Analyst report, the results tend to be utter garbage. No matter how often you explain things to them, if they aren’t going to listen, or understand you are on a loser. Nobody said the project was leaderless, because it isn’t – there is an admin team that look after it, but unlike other open source databases the project isn’t driven by a commercial company. Postgres and Firebird work in the same way by utilising a large community of followers.
At the same time the Analyst has ignored the people he spoke to who use Firebird and come to his own – wrong – conclusions.
Using ibexpert with linux and wine
You can use wine on other operating systems (even on older unsuported versions of windows)
Here is the link to article in pdf format
[ED rant :
I think is time for the world to post articles in ODF format , we need an open rw web]
Firebird Generators: Everything you wanted to know
This is a very nice article about Firebird generators: Firebird Generator Guide
Open Source Impacts Overall Database Software Market
“In the open source world, we are always flattered when changes are attributed to open source,” said MySQL Chief Executive Officer Marten Mickos. “But the enormous price pressure and the desire among customers to get away from licensing fees is self-inflicted and not a result of open source. Open source just happens to be the perfect answer to the cry.” – Read more here.
Firebird Website Moves to new House
Finally we have moved to our new server in Canada, thanks to the generosity of Broadview Software. More news shortly about our other new server, running a Firebird back-end and our new tracker system. [Ed: this server is way faster than sf.net watch the Alexa’s Site Stats ]
ANN: The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine #4
We are glad to inform you that “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” #4
is available for free download.
Please download it from one of the following locations:
Installing TurboGears on Ubuntu (product with firebird support)
Sean Schulte wrote in his blog about this new python framework:
I recently came across a new web framework called TurboGears that I think seems pretty interesting.
Full-Text Search: Fast, Damn Fast and DotLucene
DotLucene is an open-source search engine library for .NET. There is now set up a demo site (damnfastdotlucene.org) that tests DotLucene performance on quite a big set of documents
[ED:Lucene.net index can be stored in firebird database]
Firebird locking from 10.000 ft
[small intro to locking and MGA in firebird ]
Read more at cipto-kh.blogspot.com/2…