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From mindthefirebird on twitter:
Articles contest is extended to April 21. Now we have only 3 submissions. Write an article about Firebird 2.5 and win the prize.
Editor note: I hope more people participate in this contest, since it is a good way to improve FB documentation and still have the chance of getting some money 
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Marco Cantu Webinar at MindTheBird
Marco Cantu just blogged about his upcoming webinar, promoted by MindTheBird campaign:
To celebrate 10 years of the Firebird open source database and the coming release 2.5, the community behind the software has organized a promotional campaign called “Mind the Bird!“. IN case you don’t know, Firebird started when Borland decided to open source Interbase and later changed their mind. At that point the existing source code as used as a starting point for this open source project. Even if Firebird has a niche role in the open source database world, its technical qualities really shine and its license is fully open (unlike that of the most famous of the open source DBs, MySQL).
Webinar info: April 27, 2010, GMT+3 — Title: Delphi and Firebird, by Marco Cantu (in English)
(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)Loading...MindtheBird articles contest – deadline is 16/April
FB 2.5 features documentation contest
Write articles/documentation about any of the new Firebird 2.5 features and you can win a prize of USD 500 (1st place) or USD 200 (honourable mention prizes).
Rules:
- Article format should be Word (doc/docx), Open Office or RTF.
- It must contain minimum of 2.000 words.
- It must be clear and easy to understand, and if possible, contain practical examples of code using the feature subject of the article.
- It must be written in English (not generated by automated translation, please).
- All the submitted articles needs to be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (cc by).
- All articles will be published at MindTheBird site and at Scribd.com.
Deadline for articles is April 16, 2010. Contest will be judged by Firebird Core developers: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff. The authors of the best articles will get money as a prize (needs to have account in PayPal to receive the money).
Send your article to admin@mindthebird.com.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...There is now support for the Firebird RDBMS in the most popular ORM for Perl
There is now support for the Firebird RDBMS in the most popular ORM for
Perl, DBIx::Class, as of version 0.08121 .
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::InterBase
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::ODBC::Firebird
Using the ODBC driver with DBD::ODBC is recommended.
There is also support for DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader, which is used to
dump schema definitions, as of version 0.06000 .
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader
This ORM is often used with the Catalyst web framework:
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird 2.0.6 RC1
We are pleased to announce a release candidate for Firebird 2.0.6 for 32-bit Windows and MacOS Intel. You are invited to field-test it and report any problems here.
Download page: http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=fb206_rc1
Firebird Core Team
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Recorded version of Ann’s webinar is now available
If you missed the webinar from Ann Harrison, promoted by MindTheBird today, you can now download the recorded version here.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Ann Harrison’s Webinar is about to start
Hurry up!
April 8, 2010, 14-00 GMT Technological history of Firebird – 3 decades of innovations, by Ann W Harrison (in English). Connection details http://www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...8/April – Ann Harrison’s Webinar
April 8, 2010, 14-00 GMT Technological history of Firebird – 3 decades of innovations, by Ann W Harrison (in English). Connection details http://www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html
Click to link will open your installed LiveMeeting client, or if you don’t have this installed, will ask you to download and install it. Note that webinar will be available to join in 30 minutes before it’s beginning, otherwise LM client will say that “The meeting has not started yet…”.
Attendees will be muted, only presenter can speak. Attendees may ask questions using Q&A menu in Live Meeting Client.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Dmitry Yemanov SuperClassic Webinar (download)
Hello All!
You can download webinar recording here http://www.mindthebird.com/download/mtbweb20100406.zip
And we are glad to say that Grzegorz Skoczylas won the prize (IBSurgeon IBAnalyst) for the best question during webinar! Congratulations!
Regards,
MindTheBird Team
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