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New presentation “Firebird Mythbusters” http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/firebird-mythbusters
Use it for competitive talks to crush the most annoying myths around
Firebird.
Gentle reminder – we still need localized versions of MindTheBird
presentation “Firebird Intro” and “Why Firebird”.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team

David Elias wrote on django-firebird-dev group
about his backend changes to make Django 1.2 work with Firebird

Leonardo posted in his blog about developing web applications using Delphi/FreePascal. The article uses Firebird 2.1 as data source.

Adriano posted in his blog about new Window functions introduced in Firebird 3.
[...]Now, new window-only functions has been introduced. I’ll separate them in two groups: ranking and navigational. Both set of functions can be used with/without partition/ordering, but them does not make much sense without ordering.[...]
Read the full post here.

Thomas Steinmaurer made available for public download the PDF of his article about Firebird 2.5, published previously in the Entwickler Magazin.

adrianosf twiteed
New blog post – Window Functions (part2) – cumulative aggregates – http://bit.ly/8sgfKU.
And here the Hebrew version of the article

Damyan submited the patches to make Firebird 2.5 buildable on FreeBSD.
You can watch Debian building logs here

Adriano has published in his blog some information about the implementation of the OVER function in Firebird 3. Really cool.
By the SQL specification, window functions are a kind of aggregation, but which does not “filter” the result set of a query. The aggregated data is mixed with the query result set. That sort of functions [...]

Here are the notes on connecting JIRA to Firebird. It supplements the official Firebird installation documentation.

Inside the zip file you will find a nice pdf about why he uses Firebird and Euphoria Language example. I have uploaded the html version of the pdf here (transformed with pdftohtml)
Demonstration program for Firebird Server ODBC access using odbc.e and wxEuphoria with two-tone flexible datagrid. Uses the EMPLOYEE.FDB example database that comes standard [...]

Philippe Makowski wrote a nice article comparing the performance of Firebird database on different linux file systems.
Don’t believe benchmarks made by someone other than yourself !
Read it here.

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

Dmitry Kuzmenko posted in his blog an “interesting” situation detected with the use o gbak + Firebird 1.5 + Local protocol. Read it here.

Question of the day on Firebird odbc driver list
has anyone used JavaScript in PDF-Forms with the ODBC driver?
I can’t retrieve any values from the database.

ps: maybe the driver is not configured OK

Now in Firebird Fisheye you can create queries on the source code repository
For example here is how to get the changes with “Misc” comments
select revisions from dir /firebird2/src where (is head and comment matches “Misc”) group by changeset return path, revision, author, date, csid