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New version of FreeAdhocUDF released

December 7, 2010 ctheuring Leave a comment

Today we uploaded a new version “adhoc 20101206″ of FreeAdhocUDF – the St.Nicholas edition.
There are some bugfixes, raise of exactness in some functions and 16 new functions (totally now 580!), among more UTF-8 versions of existing functions.

This is a recommended update. The most interesting new functions are
– F_TZVALUETOUTC which shows the diff of local time to UTC in hours
– F_LOCAL2UTC which converts the local server time to UTC
– F_UTC2LOCAL which converts UTC to the local server time
Whith this new functions you can merge now easyly dates from different timezones into one database.

(Nearly) all functions are running in Windows and Linux, with InterBase and FireBird, with 32 and 64bit

FreeAdhocUDF is licenced under the LGPL and you can use it without costs also in commercial projects – see licence.
You can download it from ftp://ftp.FreeAdhocUDF.org/FreeAdhocUDF/
Documentation found at http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/index_eng.html
For all kind of questions and bug-reports use eMail help@freeadhocudf.org

adhoc dataservice / Christoph Theuring

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Presenting: The Firebird Core Team rock’n’roll band

December 2, 2010 Cantu One comment

Exclusive Christmas performance 😉

I hope the guys will enjoy it!

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Band is:

Drums: Alex “Bonham” Peshkov
Guitar: Vlad “Vai” Khorsun
Guitar: Claudio “Friedman” Valderrama
Bass: Adriano “Harris” Fernandes
Vocal: Dmitry “Plant” Yemanov

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ANN: FB TraceManager V1.5.0 released!

December 2, 2010 tsteinmaurer Leave a comment

Upscene Productions is proud to announce FB TraceManager 1.5.0.

The press release is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20101130

A what’s new in V1.5 video is available here:
http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/demos/fbtm/fbtm_15_whatsnew.htm

FB TraceManager currently is the only tool available on the market, which exposes the new Trace and Audit Services in Firebird 2.5 in a very user-friendly way. The following editions are available:

– Lite Edition (FREELY available)
– Standard Edition
– Enterprise Edition

More information is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, video introduction etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm

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Firebird Case Studies

November 30, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Hello All Firebirders!

Today we start very important activity – building Firebird Case Studies catalog.

WHAT IS CASE STUDY?

Case study is an example of real-world implementation of certain product.
Case study should be very specific and describe:

Technical details (database size, # of users, transactions load),
Type of business (ERP, hospital automations, CD catalogs, web-sites examples, etc) and
Business value – license costs economy, performance increasing, etc.

WHY FIREBIRD PROJECT NEEDS YOUR CASE STUDIES?

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People are looking for templates in all areas of the life. There are hundreds of “sitting ducks” Firebird deployments, which are very good in all terms – database sizes, # of users, high ROI for business, etc, etc.

We need to go for them and build the collection of case studies at www.firebirdsql.org web-site to clearly demonstrate to the world the actual value of Firebird deployments.

This is very important for Firebird Project future development and its recognition in IT world. Let’s expose the power of Firebird to everybody, and for this we need participation of each Firebird developer!

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN FIREBIRD CASE STUDY CATALOG?

Yes, you can!
Firebird needs case studies and stories of all types – so regardless of what software you create – for bakery automation or to navigate space ships – create and submit your case study. Every EXE-file or web-site which uses Firebird is important for
Firebird project, if it does useful things. It will take only 1-2 hours and it will help Firebird a lot!

HOW TO CREATE FIREBIRD CASE STUDY?

Download Firebird Case Study Guide and Template
www.mindthebird.com/docs/firebird_case_study_template.doc

You will go through several steps that are described in this template and then fill out the necessary text sections, attach appropriate graphics and write several quotes. We estimate time to create case study in 1-1.5 hour.

Only case studies in English are accepted, but if you have Case Study in several languages, it will be good addition.

If you have several good examples of Firebird usage, create several Case Studies for each. The result will be submitted to Firebird Project Marketing and a professional designer will create the final case study document in PDF format.

PRIZES AND BENEFITS

Every submitted case study will be considered by MindTheBird Team and Firebird Project Marketing and, if it will be considered as a good and complete description of the real-world project or existing packaged software, it will be included into Firebird Case Studies Catalog at firebirdsql.org, which will run in Q1 of 2011.

First 20 Case Studies will have prizes from the list www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html and, of course, they will be specially listed at minthebird.com and, later, at firebirdsql.org.

ANY QUESTIONS?

Ask your questions here or send email to case(at)mindthebird.com

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
Firebird Project Marketing
Go Firebird! Spread The World To Mind The Bird!

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#phpbb3 guide updated for #Ubuntu Maverick Server

November 29, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

There is a new version of phpbb3 (3.0.8) so I have updated the guide for Ubuntu (Maverick or Lucid) and it will work without issues in Debian too.

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ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 27 released

November 27, 2010 Chau Chee-Yang Leave a comment

Hi,

dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 27 has released. Here are the
fix:

4.1.2007.27 / 4.1.2009.27 / 4.1.2010.27 / 4.1.2011.27 Release on 27

1. Add support to return Views name
2. Support Delphi XE and Firebird 2.5

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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang

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#ODBC Driver Project Lives Again with new Version 2.0 Release Candidate 2.

November 26, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

The Open Source Firebird (IBPhoenix) ODBC driver has been updated to Version 2.0 Release Candidate 2.

Alexander Potapchenko wrote on firebird-odbc list:

I resume development of the ODBC driver. The primary goal to finish ODBC
driver 2.0 (with full x64 support and fixed “blocker” level problems) now.
If you are having any problems with the current driver but have not
reported them because the sub-project wasn’t active, then to add them to
the Bag tracker now.

ps: if you don’t know what is the bag tracker 🙂 it’s Firebird Project’s bug tracker.

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Orphanage for #OpenSuse Linux packages

November 26, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

If there are any takers for building and maintaining the suse packages please do so , until then Firebird package is orphane

Philippe Makowski wrote:

As you may know, I’m the maintainer of Firebird packages in OpenSuse.
but I’m also doing the same for Fedora (including EPEL), Mandriva and
the future Mageia.

OpenSuse is not my preferred distro, for far, and even if they are all
rpm distro, following seriously a distro need some time, and when new
Firebird version is there you need some time to do the job the right
way. And I don’t have enough time for this.
So I will still maintain Mandriva, Mageia, Fedora but no longer OpenSuse
(will it be “open” for a long time I don’t know, and that’s another story)

So please OpenSuse and Firebird users, step in, I will help you if need.

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ipv6 will be available soon the main firebird tree

November 26, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Here are some patches and the discussion on firebird-devel list , if you spot any issues/bugs please ask on the list

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