Friday, May 16, 2008
Nominate Firebird & Flamerobin for SourceForge awards
This link is for firebird nomination
This link is for flamerobin nomination
Last year Firebird was double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!
other page actions:
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Take an Open Source Database Survey
Do you know which open source feature is the most important? Do you know which open source database rocks and which one sucks? Is MySQL better than Postgres? Is Ingres worth considering? How does Firebird compare? Have you used, or have you considered using, an open source database?
Take a survey. It’s only 15 questions so [...]
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Firebird with Real Basic
If you try to connect with Real Basic here is the How To
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
phpMyFAQ 2.0.7 released
The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.7, the “Whit Monday” release. This release adds a Bengali and an Ukraine translation. The Czech translation was updated and we fixed some minor bugs.
[ED can be used with firebird backend]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Beta Release of DB Difftective Products
Datanamic are very pleased to announce the beta release of our two new tools, the DB Data Difftective and the DB Schema Difftective. The beta versions of both products are now available for download.
DB Data Difftective is a tool to compare and synchronize database content.
DB Schema Difftective is a tool to compare and synchronize database [...]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Installing jaws cms on ubuntu and firebird backend
Here is an howto install jaws php cms on ubuntu with firebird backend
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Gambas 2 2.6 released
More Info: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=20018
Description: Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic (but it is NOT a clone!).
With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program [...]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Installing pear MDB2 Driver for Firebird
This guide was tested on Ubuntu Hardy , I assume that php5-interbase and firebird is already installed
Next you will need to install MDB2 package using pear
$sudo su
#pear install MDB2
#pear install MDB2#ibase
Then you need to read the manual how to use this php driver
Now is time to create an mdb2 example employee.php
The connection string is created [...]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
New version of IBProvider
IBProvider team released own OLE DB Interbase and Firebird driver.
New implementation of the data type’s converter.
Test system was improved and found bugs were fixed. More than 15 000 tests coded.
Core was optimized.
Read more about new IBProvider data type converter
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Database functions available in Entity Framework
You may wonder, how the Entity Framework will map some basic functions (concatenation, average, etc.) from i.e. LINQ or from EntitySQL to functions supported by database and what functions will be “the selected”. Well the answer is easy.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Macedonia’s Ministry of Finance uses Firebird
The ministry’s Money Laundering Prevention Directorate (MLPD) used Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) between 2004 and 2007. This is Open Source software for encrypting and electronically signing data, allowing it to be transmitted securely even through public networks. The directorate also uses the Open Source relational database management system Firebird. “Both the banks and the MLPD [...]
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Firebird security bug fixed in gentoo linux
Firebird allows remote connections to the administrative account without verifying credentials.
The default configuration of Firebird before 2.0.3.12981.0-r6 on Gentoo Linux sets the ISC_PASSWORD environment variable before starting Firebird, which allows remote attackers to bypass SYSDBA authentication and obtain sensitive database information via an empty password.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1880
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Zend_Db (Zend Framework) example for firebird
A sample how to configure Zend Db Adapter from Zend Framework using php_interbase (firebird extension)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Firebird 2.1 package for debian experimental is online
You can test and install it on debian experimental
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
mojoPortal 2.2.5.4 Released
I’m very excited to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.2.5.4
Its available now on the download page.
The main focus of this release is making mojoPortal more attractive, with the addition of 21 good looking new skins for a total of 34 skins now included with mojoPortal. There were also a few minor bug fixes for things [...]
Monday, May 12, 2008
Firebird in 2 minutes - Romanian translation finished
Romanian translation for Firebird in 2 minutes doc is now finished at this url .
Monday, May 12, 2008
6th firebird international conference -call for papers
P-Soft and Firebird Foundation are proud to open CALL FOR PAPERS for 6th
International firebird Conference: FBCon 08 - Bergamo
You can submit a session draft directly on http://www.firebirdconference.net
For all other information please contact Conference admin using
info@firebirdconference.net
Have fun!
Codebue Fabio
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
CodeGear sold to Embarcadero
Today was announced that Embarcadero is buying CodeGear (Borland division responsible for programming tools, including Delphi and InterBase).
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Jaws 0.8.0 - First beta released with firebird support
We are happy to announce the first beta of Jaws 0.8.0 (What we do in life echoes in eternity) released. This is a release which ’should’ work but NOT be used in production systems.
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