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This is the last week for submitting artworks for the Firebird’s 10th anniversary logo contest. We already have 18 submissions! Check the contest page to see the samples.

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

We already have 9 submissions for the 10th anniversary logo contest. Hurry up! Deadline for submissions is 15/March.

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

We received the first artwork for the FB 10th anniversary contest!
Keep it coming! The contest page will be updated from time to time to include new submissions.

To support MindTheBird (global Firebird 2.5 release) campaign, FirebirdNews is running a contest for logo/artwork to celebrate Firebird’s 10th  anniversary! The winning artwork may be used in sites, banners, gifts, etc. all around the world. There is a prize of USD 500 for the winner author!
Get all the details visiting the contest [...]

Time to start the global community activation campaign about Firebird 2.5 release! Help to spread the word, join MindTheBird now, and let’s put Firebird under the IT media spotlights!

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

As part of the ongoing effort to improve the reliability, availability of the project resources.  The servers are being relocated into a high availability cluster, the outage should last no more than 4 hours.
Thanks for your understanding
Sean Leyne

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 [...]

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

Thu 14 Jan 2010 23:59:59 GMT
Gold Sponsorship Renewals
Secretary

It is heartening to have received renewals of two more Gold sponsorships for a further year from DRB Systems (U.S.A) and and UVData A/S (Denmark) as the New Year begins. Thanks to Steve Summers and Jan Gaardboe Jensen, respectively.

Wed 06 Jan 2010 [...]

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 [...]