#Firebird2.1 package is updated in #Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat
The next release of Ubuntu will have an updated package for firebird with one hard to detect bug fixed (the Classic install one)
The next release of Ubuntu will have an updated package for firebird with one hard to detect bug fixed (the Classic install one)
Thanks to the Firebird Romanian Community (Doru, Florin …)
You can download it from the left list of links from the #mindthebird campaign
If you check the Firebird-checkins list you can observe that Firebird core development is done using SVN as software version control system.
To check out trunk all you need to do is read the subversion guide at sourceforge and here is how i have done it on my debian machine
svn co https://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/firebird/firebird/trunk firebird
Saw it on Adriano’s tweet , and here is the link
Seems to be a popular (12th place on DistroWatch ) distro based on Debian
Firebird-2.5 will be available this evening in the MEPIS 8.5 testing Community Repository.
You can vote to Firebird in the new Evans Data Survey about Open Source Development:
http://surveys.evansdata.com/survey.php?ID=EDC_OSS_2010_1
Here is the new version (0.2.0.39) for FirebirdConfig and there are new webpages for it in English and Spanish
Via twitter JhonnySuarezG
#FirebirdConfig for #Firebird in english http://is.gd/e6fdT #mindthebird
Firebird has a feature allowing you to specify tables you want to lock (read or write and exclusive/protected/shared) when starting transaction so now is proper implemented in .net provider snapshots
There’s a couple of posts related to connecting to a Firebird database from an asp.net 2008 web application that are helpful but not complete
Here is the detailed way with screenshots but is using ODBC .
3d Russian Firebird Conference will take place in Moscow, September 29, 2010. The conference will be devoted to the new versions of Firebird, as well as to Firebird best practices in maintenance and development, with special focus on big Firebird databases.
Special speakers at conference: Phillipe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation, Firebird developers team: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff.
Registration (in Russian): http://ibase.ru/conf2010/