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Adriano dos Santos Fernandes created a code_swarm of the firebird2 tree.

Repairing broken Firebird database can be sometimes a bit difficult. The official tools (gfix and gbak) not always can help you so you will have to find ways to transfer data from broken database into another fresh and clean one.
There are some tools that can help you

Igor Wawrzyniak wrote on his blog :
Don’t know if anyone ever needs such a crazy setup, but here it goes. I needed to run a software that requires Firebird 2.x. Nothing special, it’s available in my distribution (Ubuntu). I also had to run another app that needs Firebird 1.5. That’s where it started to get [...]

I decided to challenge MonoTouch and create iPhone application that connects to Firebird server using .NET provider for Firebird. Read more…

At the end of the year 2009 we see what Firebird development plans were and what is the reality. (original article is in Polish)

How to add job-event based plugin to Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), aka Kettle
On forums there is a thread with the questions and answers from Pentaho team

Firebird Centos prerelease repository on Philippe Makowski’s blog

This edition contains firebird related news from week 7-14 June

Nigel Weeks wrote on his blog
A little project I’ve been quietly working on for a few years. This web-deployed accounting system is powered by FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, and the Firebird Database.
It runs brilliantly on Windows and Linux as well.

From the nagami blog :
Once, I wrote Django firebird backend http://nakagami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-03-12-2
But it is not good work on Django subverion trunk today. (Target is moving !)
So I catch it up. ( Thanks Maxi )http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nakagami/Download/django-firebird_20090606.zip
I hope it works on Django 1.1 release.
The call for an extra hand for people who are python/django experts :
I’m Maximiliano Robaina (maxirobaina) [...]

When you get “unavailble database” error prompt connecting to Firebird service is annoying and difficult to trace. Sometime it works and sometime it doesn’t. We don’t know when it works and when it doesn’t Here is guide to trace the issue.

Here is an interview with Jim Davis, SAS Institute SVP and Chief Marketing Officer.
He mentions SAS contributions to Firebird project
SAS (through our database access team) is one of the top corporate contributors to Firebird, an open source relational database.

Lazarus and Firebird Embedded tutorial on Windows 32 bits

David Intersimone from Imprise,Borland Embarcadero wrote:
InterBase (and Firebird) will be supported in upcoming releases (this year and into early next year) all of the database tool products.
Here is the full blog about firebird support request (in the comments area)

The sixth edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day will be held in Piracicaba at the next 4th of July.
And there’s news this year