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firebird #ruby driver is building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2

October 13, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Brent Rowland wrote on twitter

Got fb building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.9.1. Now for 1.9.2.

http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27211068760

Got fb building with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. At least on Mac. Under 10.6. Testing Linux and Windows will have to wait for another day.

http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27220817754

Here is the git repository for Firebird Ruby driver , also you can check the
commits log

ps: he is working on Firebird 2.5 support if you wonder what is new in the driver 🙂

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RAD Studio XE in Devart VCL

October 12, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

From Irina Pisklyarova:

Devart announced the new versions of VCL Data Access Components with full support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE.

The Devart VCL Data Access Components product line consists of the solutions that provide access from Delphi, Delphi for .NET, C++Builder, and Free Pascal chest, and offer wide coverage of the database servers’ feature sets. Devart Data Access Components provide the direct access to Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil, SQLite, DB2, Microsoft Access, Advantage Database Server, Adaptive Server Enterprise, and other databases.

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Starting SC/CS on Linux

October 12, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Alex Peshkov posted some more (interesting) info about this in fb-devel list:

The only difference between [starting] classic and superclassic is different server binary to start – classic is started by fb_inet_server (started by xinetd) and super – fb_smp_server, started by fbguard, started by /etc/init.d script. You can remove fb_smp_server, fbguard and startup scripts – and you will get poor classic package. To get superclassic package – remove fb_inet_server and xinetd startup file, and slightlychange install script.

Must say that this is anyway not a longterm solution. Since 3.0 we will not have separate packages – single package will serve all needs, including SS, and choice of operation mode will be done using firebird.conf.

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Traffic rank for firebirdsql.org gone to the roof : it’s on place 35,024

October 10, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

The traffic for firebirdsql.org according to alexa.com is gone to the roof , now is past the 40.000 threshold and it’s now at the place

~ 35.000 : the best place in all the firebirdsql.org traffic history !

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XMLWizard – 50% discount

October 8, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

GuacoSoft offers 50% discount to all MindTheBird members, on XMLWizard tool to import data into Firebird from external files like XML, CSV and textual files.

http://www.guacosoft.com/xmlwizard

Discount: 50%
ShareIt coupon code: you can find it in Milan’s message in MTB discussion group
Only valid until October 15th, 2010.

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Firebird Sql 2.5 for #Apple #MacOSX is out, Minimum supported version is 10.6 Snow Leopard

October 7, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

NOTE :: To make the new engine work properly under multi-threaded conditions we had to use Grand Central Dispatch, which was first released in MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). MacOSX users should be aware that Firebird 2.5 will run only on MacOSX 10.6 or higher versions. If you want to use an earlier version of OSX you will need to use an earlier version of Firebird.

Download from usual location :

http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_250

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Firebird Anti-Corruption approach slides

October 7, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Firebird Anti-Corruption Approach

View more presentations from Nataly Polyanskaya.

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How to run SuperClassic on Linux

October 7, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Firebird 2.5 brings a new architecture called SuperClassic. The official FB 2.5 Linux packages brings SuperClassic and Classic in the same package, and when you install it, Classic will be activated by default.

To be able to change to SuperClassic, you need to run the script changeMultiConnectMode.sh that is installed with FB 2.5.

You will be prompted with: “Which option would you like to choose: multi-(process|thread) [process]”

Answering thread will activate SuperClassic, while process will activate Classic mode.

PS: This is not documented in the Release Notes.

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Recorded Firebird 2.5 Launch webinar

October 5, 2010 Jiri Cincura One comment

Recorded Firebird Launch webinar is available at http://www.mindthebird.com/download/firebird25launchwebinar041010.zip .

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