Hot out of the oven #CakePHP 1.3 #alpha
The CakePHP development team is happy to release the alpha build of
CakePHP 1.3.
Installing #Perl DBI driver for Firebird #RDBMS server – guide updated for #Ubuntu #karmic
I have updated the tutorial for Firebird 2.1 Classic and Ubuntu Karmic Koala
Related to this question about how to do the perl driver install on Ubuntu Karmic
Installing #PHP 5.3.x On #Ubuntu #Karmic with Firebird #PDO support
There is no php 5.3 in Ubuntu Karmic so we have to compile it with firebird support and pdo (seems that some pdo bugs are fixed in 5.3)
#phpBB 3.0.6 Release Candidate 4 released with Firebird fixes
In an effort to increase product stability we are happy to announce the availability of the fourth release candidate for the next release – phpBB 3.0.6.
This fourth release candidate contains mostly regression fixes. Everyone able to should test this release and report critical bugs (those, stopping the operation of the forum) and issues to the bug tracker or directly to the developers.
FBCon 2009 München – #.NET + Firebird will be there
Jiří {x2} Činčura wrote on his blog
You can find info about conference at firebird-conference.com. I’ll be speaking there too, hence if you’re interested in Firebird and .NET you should definitely come. Every day I have one session. I’ll be covering new (2.5+) protocol implementation in .NET client for Firebird 2.1, Entity Framework support (also new in 2.5) and finally you’ll see how to create Windows phone (formely PocketPC, …) application and accessing Firebird database.
Performance issues on #Intel CPUs vs #Amd ones
Alexander Peshkoff wrote on Firebird-devel
One of our users, GLDS, has found that firebird 2.5 (64-bit mode) runs on some
very simple tests 2 times slower compared with firebird 1.5. I’ve checked it
on my box and could not reproduce a problem. Afterwards it became known that
my box is amd, in GLDS – intel.
Therefore I’ve decided to compare different versions on different CPUs.
Performance tests showed, that firebird 1.5 runs on them with more or less
same speed (therefore it’s very convenient for comparison). But firebird 2.5
runs really runs on intel almost 2 times slower, than 1.5(and therefore 2
times slower than on amd). What else required explanation – why do we not
have this performance issue under windows.
[ED: seems that was an NetBust/p4 core with HT on that had these performance issues]
Docbuilding Howto updated
The Docbuilding Howto has been updated.
A warning and a workaround have been added regarding the problems that can occur if you check out the manual module into a path that contains spaces or other non-alphanumerical characters.
For a complete list of changes (this is especially important for translators)
see the Document History (Revision 1.6):
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/docbuildhowto-dochist.html
Libdbi firebird driver progress
With Libdbi – a database independent abstraction layer written in C , you can see the new tests status with latest code from cvs
Firebird and Flamerobin in the #fedora 12 release notes
In the Applications Databases section from release notes on Fedora core 12 we can see the new Firebird and Flamerobin packages for it