Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
FB Documentation Crowdfunding campaign
Goal: Translate & Publish Firebird Developer Guide
During 2015-2016 IBSurgeon and the Moscow Exchange sponsored the authoring, in Russian, of step-by-step examples for newbie Firebird developers, with databases in 2.5 and 3.0 format. The work included full source code and parallel examples in Delphi, .Net desktop, .Net MVC, PHP (based on Laravel) and Java (Jaybird 2.x). The main work was done by Denis Simonov, who previously edited the Russian version of the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference that was translated into English and published last year.
The Firebird Project’s 2017 project is to translate this work into English, edit and review it and publish it as the Firebird Developer Guide in the project’s documentation library. For this project, as ever, we need funding. This is your opportunity to make it happen, by contributing whatever you can to our crowdfunding campaign.
To donate, go to here and click the donate button.
Generating a script for FirebirdSQL from MySQLWorkbench
MySQLWorkbench allows to design database model easily and also provides an option to generate the SQL script. By default script is generated for MySQL, but, what if you need to generate a SQL script for FirebirdSQL?
Here is the solution via python plugin
FB 3 for Android is out!
Finally the Firebird 3 version for Android was made available for download in the official site. Please note that since this version wasn’t widely tested, you must consider it as experimental.
If you find any problems, please report it to the developers mailing list.
ADO.NET provider 5.8.1.0 for Firebird is ready
Firebird 3.02 is out!
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.2 — the second point release in the Firebird 3.0 series.
This sub-release offers many bug fixes (including fix for a recently reported security vulnerability) and also adds a few minor features and improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows and Linux on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.
Not using Firebird 3 yet? Get the Migration Guide to Firebird 3 and save you a lot of time in the migration process!
ADO.NET provider 5.8.0.0 for Firebird is ready
Firebird 2.5.7 is available
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.7 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.
This sub-release introduces several bug fixes (including fix for a recently reported security vulnerability) and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows and Linux on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download. Binary kits for Mac OS X will follow shortly.
LibreOffice contributor interview: Tamás Bunth
LibreOffice 5.3 is coming soon – it’s due to be released in early February. What have the developers been working on?
Find out in new contributor interview, with Tamás Bunth:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/01/24/libreoffice-contributor-interview-tamas-bunth/