Today, Webinar with Marco Cantu

April 27, 2010, GMT 15-00 pm Delphi and Firebird, by Marco Cantu (in English).

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  Description from Marco Cantu:
  Since many Delphi developers use Firebird, Embarcadero recently added a native and specific Firebird driver to its dbExpress architecture.In this session I’ll offer an overview of how this driver works in terms of accessing to data and metadata, cover some of the alternative Delphi database access solutions for Firebird, and talk about the status of Delphi and of its relationship with the open source database server.

Database Workbench 4 Pro released!

Database Workbench 4 is the next major version of multi-DBMS developer tool, it offers new features and improvements and represents a major milestone in the history of this tool.

April 27, 2010, GMT+3 – Title: Delphi and Firebird, by Marco Cantu (in English)

Marco Cantu blogged about his upcoming webinar, promoted by MindTheBird campaign.

Firebird V2.1.3 for Solaris Sparc (64bit)

Firebird V2.1.3 for Solaris Sparc (64bit) is available for download.

8/April – Ann Harrison’s Webinar

April 8, 2010, 14-00 GMT Technological history of Firebird – 3 decades of innovations, by Ann W Harrison (in English). Connection details http://www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html

Download Dmitry Yemanov SuperClassic Webinar

You can download webinar recording here http://www.mindthebird.com/download/mtbweb20100406.zip

Firebird Webinar, Tuesday, April 6 at 15.00 GMT

Firebird Webinar on the topic SuperClassic: new architecture in Firebird, is to be presented by Dmitry Yemanov.

To participate as an observer, follow instructions from Events page of the Firebird website.

SuperClassic: new architecture in Firebird

Firebird Webinar "SuperClassic: new architecture in Firebird", by Dmitry Yemanov, will take place on April 6th, GMT 15.00 - Details will follow soon.

Download MindTheBird! materials

Materials include presentations, email and press-release templates, banners and other resources to promote Firebird.
Download link to Bosnian translation of these is http://www.mindthebird.com/download/MindTheBird_Bosnian.zip

Firebird 2.5 is launching!

Now's the time to discover the universal and open-source database: Firebird 2.5. This new release of the award-winning, powerful and feature-rich database brings even more features and greater performance, allowing millions of developers worldwide to build fast, scalable and robust applications.

MindTheBird! is the Firebird Community activation campaign, whose main goal to support launch of Firebird 2.5 and ensure the visibility of Firebird in the world of information technologies, media, open-source enthusiasts and end users.

JEDI VCS 2.41 client release

The JVCS team is happy to announce the JEDI VCS 2.41 client release,
which is intended as a maintenance release for 2.40 but also includes
some new features.

Red-Soft to provide official support for UIB!!!

Nikolay Samofatov asked what is the process to submit patches and is it possible to obtain commit rights for the project:

Read more here

UIB 2.1 released

New features:
- New FB2 Database properties:
.InfoActiveTransactionsCount
.InfoCreationDate
- Support for quoted parametters (:"my param").
- Metadata explorer now read roles (Pierre Yager).
- New Lazarus sample to explore metadatas.

bug fixes:
- TJvUIBEvent bug when destroying component is fixed.
- ExecSQL now call Execute when query is prepared;
- When a query don't return fields, a call to next don't raise exception anymore.
- TJvUIBDataSet: a bug was fixed when the query return only one record.
- RowsAffected now support stored procedures.
- Parsing error corrected with stored procedure.
- Removed Fastcode unit because of bug in asm code.
- bug with "isc_reset_fpe" function that don't exist on unix plateforms is corrected.
- Some bug fixes with Appserver samples.

Firebird PHP Generator

SQL Maestro Group is announcing the release of Firebird PHP Generator. It is a freeware but powerful Firebird GUI front-end that allows you to generate high-quality PHP scripts for the selected tables, views and queries for the further working with these objects through the web.

Key features:

• Data management: adding, editing and deleting records
• Customization of the HTML appearance
• Filtering and sorting abilities
• Data protection with a lot of security settings
• Lookup options for master-detail relations
• Integrated script navigation
• Ability to create multilingual web apps.

CopyCat version 2.00.0

> After a long delay, Microtec is pleased to announce the release of the
> long-awaited CopyCat version 2.0!
>
> CopyCat is a set of Interbase/Firebird replication components for
> Delphi and
> C++Builder. Using CopyCat, you can easily build applications
> comprising advanced
> database replication capabilities, which can be deployed royalty-free.
>
> Version 2 introduces a number of major improvements, featuring most
> notably:
>
> - Multi-database replication capabilities (support for MS SQL
> Server, and other databases soon)
> - Transport-layer abstraction (support for replicating over XML-RPC).
> - Conditional table filtering.
> - New per-table options, allowing to specify which operations
> (Insert / Update / Delete) should be logged.
> - Added a TCcReplicator.SyncronizeRows method for manually provoking
> replication of a specified set of records.
> - No more special replication users!
> - Redesigned website, with the addition of a new web forum for
> support and updates (http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/forums).
> - A new flash tutorial to get get to grips quickly with the basics
> of CopyCat, available here:
> http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/GettingStarted.htm
> - Probably much, much more than I can remember ! ;)
>
> For more information about this new release, click here :
> http://microtec.fr/copycat/forums/showthread.php?t=1
>
> General information about CopyCat : http://www.microtec.fr/copycat
>
> Demonstration application :
> http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/download.php?type=demo
>
> Evaluation version :
> http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/download.php?type=eval
>
> Note: For users of previous versions who purchased over a year ago, a
> 30% discount will be granted on upgrade. For those who purchased less
> than a year ago, this update is free.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Jonathan Neve
> _______________
> CopyCat - advanced Delphi components for database replication,
> supporting CodeGear Interbase, FirebirdSQL and MS SQL Server!
> _______________
> CopyTiger - the ultimate database replication solution for CodeGear
> Interbase, FirebirdSQL and MS SQL Server!

IBUndelete V2.0 for Firebird and InterBase

IBUndelete V2.0 for Firebird and InterBase is available. This version now supports Firebird 2.0.x and InterBase 2007 database structures and improved undelete algorithms.

Delphi For PHP Released

From Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/0314222

Codegear (now a subsidiary of Borland) has just released version 1.0 of Delphi for PHP, a RAD development environment (running on Windows) that produces standard PHP code. It features a large set of built-in components, including ones that use AJAX for database access; and Codegear is encouraging users to develop their own components. The framework, VCL for PHP, is open source, and documentation follows the PHP model. Initial database connectivity is for MySQL and Interbase (Codegear’s commercial database that spawned the open-source Firebird), but more are promised.

Firebird 2.1 Alpha 1 Ready for Field Testing

The Firebird team is pleased to announce that the first Alpha builds of Firebird V.2.1 are ready for testing. Binary and source kits for Linux and and some Win64 and Win32 kits should start appearing at the Sourceforge mirrors today. For a summary of new features and bug fixes, see HERE.

Delphi for PHP - First impressions

Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues:

Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.

Delphi on Rails?

The developers who brought us Delphi, that Ferrari of Integrated Development Environments, are entering the dynamic language tools race, and this time they are sporting Ruby red.