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How to put firebird and dotnet framework on small windows machines (based on pentium @233Mhz) Part 1 http://vault-co.blogspot.com/2008/08/98lite-megacheap-embedded-windows.html and Part 2 http://vault-co.blogspot.com/2008/08/nano98-windows-in-7-seconds-45.html                    

Here is the tutorial with screenshots in French , but from images you can follow the lazarus wizzards and it should be ok in any language                    

To blob or not to blob… good question! I guess if you develop data intensive applications dealing with large files at some point, you’ve thought about it at least once: should I put my data files inside the database or should I write them directly to disk? Ok, so here’s my point: storing files in Firebird is faster [...]

The final version of SP1 for VS2008 and .NET 3.5 is out for a while. And you may noticed, that there were some [more ...]                    

The list of open issues for Lazarus 0.9.26 is getting smaller by the day. Most are fixed. Some are re-targeted to 0.9.28, if we estimate it takes too long fix them now. Some are re-targeted to 1.0.0, if closer inspection turns out the bug is not a regression. Some issue are in the status feedback. [...]

While on vacation I’ve been working on a pet-project that has been around for many years now. The service is a mobile device chat and is powered by Firebird and PHP. There used to be lots of problems handling more than 400 simultaneous users, but after a DB upgrade to Firebird v2.5 Alpha 1 things really [...]

As usual, we will thank the the early dvd-pre-sale sponsors with a prominent credit. There will be a special section on the DVD, but also in the game itself! On the link below you can find the dvd pre-sale sponsors, who have ordered and paid before we started in February (but we’ve been flexible a bit!). http://www.yofrankie.org/?page_id=316 Please check for errors! If your name is missing, please email me (ton at blender org), preferably with order ID from blender shop. Thanks! -Ton- (Note: some names don’t start with capitals yet, or are capitalized entirely, will be fixed. There will be also no nicknames, nor corporate names added!)

This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a simple blog application. We’ll be getting and installing Cake, creating and configuring a database, and creating enough application logic to list, add, edit, and delete blog posts. What is needed : Firebird ,Ubuntu , Nginx and Php but it should work with any other server (apache, [...]

This is an howto create your own ubuntu live cd with firebird/ubuntu and custom applications ,in guide ubuntu variation used was Xubuntu (is smaller and can be customized easier ) but it works for any hardy release                    

If you get this message in firebird.log Fatal lock manager error: semaphores are exhausted, errno: 1 It means that you sould try to increase semaphores count in firebird.conf.                    

FirebirdConfig is free and provides you with a friendly user interface in order to configurate the firebird operation modifying the firebird.conf file with the most intuitive and functional graphic form                    

Server generated values - not only autoincrements are very useful think. Entity Framework supports two types “Computed” and “Identity”. When you update or insert entity, these fields are automatically refreshed according to state in database (after calling SaveChanges). For more info look at StoreGeneratedPattern.                    

How to use a Rails App with Firebird DB 1.5 encoding: NONE and with accents                    

If there were statistics on corrupted Firebird databases, I believe more than 80% of them would have something in common: they were running with forced-writes off. Since Firebird 2.1 forced-writes also work in linux. With that in mind I put together a comparison between the two modes. What are forced-writes and when to use them? I hope DBAs [...]

Last weekend I’ve been out of the Blender Institute, spending it in what would be a presentation of Yo Frankie! on the Game Development Campus 2008, in the University of Aalborg, Denmark. The goal of the Camp was to share ideas about games, get to know each other, make groups, and then each group (7 groups in total, with 6 people each) will have to develop a game for the end of the week, using Blender as the Game Engine where all the games will run. It ended up being lot more than that!  met a lot of people and made very good friends over there.