IBReplicator Beta 2.0.0.10 has been released and is available for download.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Want your own Firebird T-Shirt or Polo Shirt?
Want your own Firebird T-Shirt or Polo Shirt to impress your friends and advertise your favourite open source database? Well now you can - the Firebird Project has just started to make available, official branded Firebird merchandise. To start with T-Shirts and Polo Shirts, other goodies to follow.
Delphi Renaissance
"The TIOBE Programming Community Index is reporting that Delphi is experiencing a revival, this coincides with Borland recently releasing Delphi 2005 allowing users to target both win32 and
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/11/29/1424210.shtml?tid=156&tid=8
Firebird currently beats Ingres on performance
On the CA Ingres community page there is an interesting discussion thread:
http://opensource.ca.com/projects/ingres/forum/10/650886925835?b_start:int=0
Problems in Firebird 1.5.2 RC 3
Some minor new problems showed up in the Release Candidate 3 build. Release candidate 4 will follow shortly. Meanwhile, point release notes v.0152_08 are available online in English and for download in English and German.
Monday, November 29, 2004
Delphi 2005 update coming...
Just wanted to let you know that we do have an update underway that will improve memory usage among some other issues that have been raised post ship. Thank you for bringing some of these to our attention, your early feedback has been very helpful. We expect to have this update available after Thanksgiving, sometime in early December. Although there are some common issues raised here in these forums, the majority of early customer feedback has been that Delphi 2005 is a high quality Delphi release with an amazing feature set. With more features than we ever put in a single release, there will inevitably be some bugs that come up that we need to fix and we're focused on keeping Delphi 2005 quality level up to it's feature level - the highest ever :o)
Thanks again for your feedback and happy holidays,
Michael
Originally posted by Michael Swindell on Borland's newsgroups
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Linux's future has many challenges
INTELLECTUAL property challenges, business perception of security vulnerabilities and the reliability of open-source software are likely to be Linux's main risks this decade. Read more at australianit.news.com.au »
Evans Data research survey of databases
Evans Data research survey of databases includes Firebird, for once. Firebird is listed under "What Open Source database are you using?" but appears not to rate with MySQL, MaxDB, PostgreSQL, Progress, et al., under these two: "Which of the following server database products do you work with?" and "Which database product do you use to do MOST of your programming?" Oh well.... Everyone who completes a survey is automatically entered into a draw to win $500.00 US.
They should be concerned about us...
MySQL to Oracle "They should be concerned about us" by Sylvia Carr on Silicon.com
SQLDirect Component Library V4.1.1
SQLDirect Component Library V4.1.1 is available. (SQLDirect is a light-weight BDE replacement for Borland Delphi V4 - 8 and C++Builder V4 - 6. It uses the native application programming interfaces to access to a number of database servers including InterBase and Firebird).
Is Oracle A Legacy Technology?
Something to ponder: Is Oracle A Legacy Technology? On Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog.
Firebird 1.5.2 RC3 is ready for testing
Release candidate 3 of Firebird 1.5.2 is now ready in the pre-release area for download and testing. Point release notes v.0152_07 are available online in English and for download in both English and German.
FlameRobin has Moved!
The FlameRobin project has now moved to its own home site on Sourceforge. All future releases will happen under the flamerobin SF project name. Those previously monitoring the package by way of the old fbmanager project will need to re-register your interest. The new Alpha 0.2 package is identical to the one released earlier in the week, so there is no need to download anything again.
Anyone subscribed to our current mailing lists should unsubscribe and re-subscribe to the new lists here.
InterBase Performance Monitoring: Vision and Control
In older versions of InterBase it was sometimes difficult to tell what was going on inside the server. This could make debugging applications very difficult. You could tell, for example, that there was a long-running transaction by looking at the DB header statistics, but you couldn't tell whose it was or what it was doing. Nor could the DBA preemptively end the transaction.
With InterBase 7 and higher, InterBase now provides insight into and control over the internal functions of the server via the temporary system tables. In some ways, InterBase developers and DBAs have a new problem: Instead of not enough information, we now have so much information and so many options for controlling the server that it's possible to get lost in the minutia of InterBase internals.
This session will focus on practical use of the feature. I'm not going to reproduce the InterBase documentation or explain every column of every table, but instead will focus on how to debug and enhance applications, and how to effectively administer an InterBase server.
Read more at: http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/articles/IBPerformanceMonitoring.aspx
Delphi 2005 Architect Trial available!!!
Borland posted trial version of Delphi 2005 Architect!!!
Let's go for it!
Friday, November 19, 2004
Fyracle 0.8.1 released!
This release fixes a number of issues:
- fixed install failure when the installer was located on
a different drive than the installation directory (Win)
- fixed install failure where fyracle.dll did not get
installed properly (Win)
- fixed install failure where the desktop icons did not
always properly launch their program
- fixed issue with the installer where post-install errors
caused the installer to abort
- removed the maximum statement length in the plsql
compiler
- fixed incorrect command line parameter handling in the
plsql compiler
Download from http://www.fyracle.org/downloads/
myTracker 1.06
myTracker updated!
MyTracker is tracking and collaboration system that allows users to collect, file, share, and discuss any type of information, whether it is news, a thought, bug, task, idea, document, graph and report. MyTracker is powerful, well-organized, efficient, fully customizable and easy to use.
MyTracker is designed to make massive amounts of information manageable. It flexible, giving users a powerful framework allowing them to focus on their own problem-solving decisions. It can arrange large groups of information in an enormous number of ways, but quickly find a single item within the groups. MyTracker supports custom form design, queries, reporting, charting, notification and export of data - in HTML, XML and XLS (Excel) formats.
MyTracker is released under GPL License.
1.06 released on 17.11.2004
improved: documentation reviewed and updated by Chris1.05 released on 13.11.2004
new:New Template macro for formatting stylesheet (very hot)
new:3 new permissions (Login restricted, Restrict selection of other users, Restrict selection of other user groups user)
new: open issue attachments via click on Stylesheet
fixed: At opening the issue details dialog set the focus on first editable field on properties page
new:Client console remebers the last logged user ;-)1.04 released on 8.11.2004
fixed:All user can delete issues references from the tray
fixed:Wrong issue history BUG:1064527
fxed:Delete custom issue field BUG:1064045
fixed:Remember last query works also for Tray and selects the correct node
fixed: SOAP server dlls contain the missed midas.dll1.03 released on 4.11.2004
fixed: Empty tray in direct DB connection does not delete the issues but the item in tray1.02 released on 28.10.2004
changed: Stylesheet Macrosorts the rows by Change at field
new: Stylesheet Macrosorts the rows by field (old functionality)
fixed: Date formating in regions with no dd.mm.yyyy format1.0 First official release (14.10.2004)
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Programming Language Popularity: UPDATE
http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3433891
"In the newest poll, there are some interesting things happening in the top five. C dropped a little, but Java dropped a lot going from 17.050% in October to just 14.804% in November. C++ also dropped a little. Both Visual Basic and Perl increased in their percentages, but not enough to change positions. Also notable is Delphi/Kylix in seventh position. This is notable because Pascal has been separated from this category to stand on its own. Pascal still made 17th position. "
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