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The polls will close on Feb. 18, with winners being announced shortly afterward. Last year's winners include Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice.org and MySQL. Two years ago Firebird WON!
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
LinuxQuestions 2006 Members' Choice Awards
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Devrace BlazeTop (former SQLHammer) version 1.7
Devrace BlazeTop (former SQLHammer) version 1.7 is available for immediate download. Besides many fixes and enhancements it includes Firebird 2.0 support, SQL Editor optimization (text syntax highlighting) and full UNICODE support. Now you also ave an option to purchase BlazeTop for the price of 129 Euro only!
DelphiSpeedUp Delphi/BCB/BDS IDE plugin Version 2.3
A plugin for Delphi/C++Builder 5/6/7/2005, BDS 2006 and Turbo Delphi/C++/C# Professional. It speeds up the time to load the IDE and it also improves the whole speed of the IDE. This is achieved by replacing some often used RTL functions by FastCode function that are optimized for the used CPU. It also adds some caches for function that work on filenames like ExpandFileName().
Important information: All these optimizations do not affect the compiled projects in any way. They are made in memory so all the files on disk are not modified. Uninstalling DelphiSpeedUp makes every change undone because the optimizations are not persistent. They only exist in memory and are limited to the Delphi/BCB/BDS process.
WARNING: Not every access violation in DelphiSpeedUp.dll is a bug in DelphiSpeedUp. Actually many of the exceptions in the RTL package are now thrown in the DelphiSpeedUp.dll because the RTL functions are replaced by the DelphiSpeedUp functions and wrong parameters like nil-pointers, invalid pointers, ... now lead to access violations in the replacement code.
- Improves Delphi/BCB/BDS's load times
- Optimizes often used RTL functions by functions form the FastCode project
- All optimizations are done in memory and do not change any file on disk
- Adds a "Close all and kill" menu item to the "File" menu that terminates the IDE very fast
- The fast termination is used when you close the IDE while pressing the CTRL key.
- Version 2.3 (2007-01-01)
- Added: Package Import Resolver for many System.pas functions and TList/TObjectList/TInterfaceList
- Added: Some FastSys tweaks to improve speed in runtime packages
- Added: .NET's SetThreadPriority(HIGHEST) during IDE loading is now ignored (Delphi 2005, BDS 2006)
- Added: The IDE is terminated faster by pressing CTRL when closing the main form.
- Added: DelphiSpeedUp calls BeginUpdate/EndUpdate for BDS's Tool Palette during startup.
MySQL Falcon Storage Engine Open Sourced - on /.
From the Sweet Mother of Databases dept.:The code for the Falcon Storage Engine for MySQL has been released as open source. Jim Starkey, known as the father of Interbase, is behind its creation; previously he was involved with the Firebird SQL database project.
Firebird 1.5.4 Release Candidate 1
Pre-release builds of a release candidate for Firebird 1.5.4 are ready for testing.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Happy New Year!
I would like to wish a very happy new year to all Firebird and Delphi users and developers!
It seems that 2007 will be a very exciting year for Firebird, with two scheduled releases (2.1 and 3.0) and for Delphi as well, with two scheduled releases (Delphi Highlander and Delphi for Vista) .
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Review: Borland Turbo Explorer
With the free Turbo Explorer line, Borland brings programming to the masses. Each of the four Turbo Explorer 'personalities' targets a different combination of programming language and platform: Turbo Delphi and Turbo C++ for Windows, and Turbo Delphi and Turbo C# for .NET. There are over 200 components for building programs, but the abundance of features may be overwhelming to new users.
Turbo Delphi - The Return!
Turbo Delphi - The Return! - In the good old days, Turbo Pascal was small, fast and inexpensive. Now Turbo Delphi is (we hope) small and fast. And it's free!
ZeosDBO Latest Download
Here is the link for the last ZeosDBO component (but it's not the stable version) http://users.telenet.be/mdaems/ at least you can know that the development of this component is still exist
FDD on TV
HardSoft TV presented in program #275 an interview with Carlos H. Cantu recorded during the 3ยบ Firebird Developers Day. You can watch it online now (audio is in portuguese). In the next programs (released every 2 weeks), there will be other interviews with other FDD speakers.
Firebird Maestro
SQL Maetro - A new administration tool for Firebird Databases is available for download (windows only).
Meiji talks about FDD
Meiji Kimura posted an on-line article in IT-Media about Firebird Developers Day. Non-japanese speakers can try some online translation tools to be able to read the article.
FlameRobin 0.7.5 released
Source and binary packages for Windows (setup.exe and .zip) and Linux (gtk1 and gtk2 variants) are available for download. MacOSX and Debian/Ubuntu ones should follow soon (and probably FreeBSD one too). We are also looking for someone to try if things work on Solaris too.
New features
- System tables now are available in main tree view
- Compatibility with Firebird 2.0
- SQL editor: Autocompletion of column/parameter names and old/new aliases in triggers
Enhancements and Bug fixes
- SQL Editor: Use row:col instead of col:row in statusbar
- SQL Editor: Autocompletion now works for case
- sensitive object names
- SQL Editor: Autocompletion now works for names containing $ character
- Data grid: "Fetch all records" and "Cancel fetching all records" commands
- Data grid: "Copy records as Update" command
- SQL script execution now always stops on error
- Confirm dropping of items from main tree
- Fixed bugs related to character set conversions
- Fixed DDL extraction for various object types
Download at : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124340
For known issues please see our bug tracker at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=124340&atid=699234
1st Russian Firebird Conference
Dear Friends,
IBase, Inc is glad to announce The 1st Russian Firebird Conference. It will take place in Moscow, Russia, October 14, 2006.
Firebird Core developers, vendors of many related products and well-known enthusiasts will be there to present the most recent news and plans regarding Firebird 2, new versions of developers products and so on.
Check-in to conference (in Russian):
http://www.ibase.ru/conf2006_reg.htm
If you have any questions regarding participation or sponsorship please feel free to email conf@ibase.ru.
With best regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBase.ru
IBSurgeon.com
Where are the Mysql, Firebird books in your shop?
Did you seen the Firebird book in local shops ?
One mysql user is complaining that mysql books aren’t in the “database” area [ED: seems that he spoted one firebird book]
Using the ActiveRecord-JDBC Adapter
There has been one official release of the ActiveRecord-JDBC adapter, a 0.1 that has basic SQL support for MySQL.[Ed: Firebird support will be added soon , see bellow] …
We are planning a second release of the JDBC adapter very shortly. It should have reasonably solid migrations/DDL support for MySQL, Oracle, and Firebird, as well as some level of support for HSQLDB, Derby, and others. It’s moving along quickly now that it’s been spun off into its own jruby-extras project. You can go there or to the jruby-extras SVN repository to grab the bleeding-edge source from SVN.
GCafeSoft Update - blog
GCafeSoft is a program, written absolutely for Gaming Cafe owners.
The Server is a robust-.NET based application, based on the v1.1 .NET Framework. The database is also as robust an element in the Server — architecture being based on the Firebird Embedded Architecture.
dnfBB final beta available for download
dnfBB is a powerful and fast 3 Tier, C# / .Net discussion board or forum. With native support for multiple forums within the same database structure which fully utilises Firebird’s features (Stored procs, triggers etc)
The final beta version of dnfBB is now available for download, this version includes all the features that were allocated to Version 1. Without a doubt there will be a few imperfections to iron out before the final release, however as far as functionality goes this is now complete (Firebird version only at the moment).
URL’s
Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnfbb/
Forum: http://dnfbb.fbtalk.net/
Monday, September 04, 2006
Firebird 2.0 on-line manual
I’ve placed the first book of a Firebird 2.0 manual on-line:
http://www.janus-software.com/fbmanual/
This book is about the stored procedure and trigger language “PSQL” and
consists of about 100 web pages. I would expect that all 8 planned
books will be online before the end of the year.
The on-line manual is user editable, in the sense that users can post
extra information, examples and corrections — in the style of the on-
line PHP manual.
All feedback is welcome.
Enjoy!
Paul
Friday, September 01, 2006
MySQL drops BerkeleyDB engine - what next?
Joe Brockmeyer writes: "With the 5.1.12 release, MySQL will be dropping the Berkeley DB (BDB) storage engine from its list of supported database engines. Some observers have suggested that this move is connected to Oracle's purchase of Sleepycat, and that InnoDB may be next. However, Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, says that they're unlikely to drop InnoDB, and the Berkeley engine is being dropped for technical reasons."
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