Nagios, the premier open source network monitoring program, is celebrating its 2.1 release. With four years of development under its belt, Nagios is powerful enough to replace expensive proprietary monitoring products and become a tool your organization can’t live without. There is a FireBird plugin available for Nagios.
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Loading...A post on Devshed forums showed that the php manual did not have any detailed info about ibase_service_attach and some other Interbase/Firebird functions, of course the question has been answered in the forums and the user promised to add a note on the official docs, anyway here is a small example of use of that specific function:
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This release fixes minor bugs and adds a number of features, most notably support for connection timeouts.
See the release announcement at http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/#release_32b1 for documentation and download links.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Not taking any chances, however, MySQL is also developing its own transactional storage engine and will extend its transaction support by adding technologies developed by one of the creators of InterBase (which later became core technology for the Open Source Firebird project). Read more here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...From Steve Lasker’s Web Log – “I’m not familiar with the details of Firebird Embedded, so I can’t make a comparison. To capture the essence: SQL/e is a lightweight, in-proc relational database that offers a subset of the data types and TSQL syntax to provide queries over relational stored data with transactional support. The SQL/e data format can be password protected with encryption. SQL/e is based on the proven history of the Microsoft SQL Server Mobile Edition technology.”
Read more here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...If you’re a C programmer, know the PHP internals, and are willing to maintain the Firebird driver for PDO, please step in, since it isn’t in good shape.
The PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension defines a lightweight, consistent interface for accessing databases in PHP.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I just read that Red Hat is acquiring JBoss, read more here
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Much had been said about the browser as a platform. It was an idea strongly promoted by, the now gone, Netscape at the start of the Web revolution, but we never got there. Did we? Yes, we did! We just did not notice it!
If you take your browsers to this chess game, you might start to understand what I mean.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Of note was Firebird’s second place in the database category. This relational database is quietly picking up both in community interest and market share, and could rival PostgreSql and MySql in time.” – Full article here.
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