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Firebird Worldwide Conference 2005
The Firebird conference will take place at the Hotel Olsanka in Prague, Czech Republic from the evening of Sunday the 13th of November (opening session) until the evening of Tuesday the 15th of November (closing session). Request for Sponsors | How to Register | Conference Timetable | Conference Papers and Speakers
PHPServer 0.9
One of the more interesting recent developments in information technology has been the rise of browser based applications, often referred to by the acronym “LAMP”. One key hurdle for broad use of the LAMP technology for mid-market solutions was that it was never easy to configure and manage. PHPServer changes that: it can be installed with just four clicks of the mouse and support for Firebird is compiled in. PHPServer shares all the qualities of Firebird: it is a capable, compact, easy to install and easy to manage solution. PHPServer is a free download. Read more at: http://www.fyracle.org/phpserver.html
Fyracle 0.8.9
Janus has released a new version of Oracle-mode Firebird, Fyracle. Fyracle is a specialized build of Firebird 1.5: it adds temporary tables, hierarchical queries and a PL/SQL engine. Version 0.8.9 adds support for stored procedures written in Java
Fyracle dramatically reduces the cost of porting Oracle-based applications to Firebird. Common usage includes the Compiere open source ERP package, mid-market deployments of Developer/2000 applications and demo CD’s of applications without license trouble. Read more at:
IBAnalyst 1.9
IBSurgeon has issued new version of IBAnalyst. Now it can better analyze InterBase or Firebird database statistics with using metadata information (in this case connection to database is required). IBAnalyst is a tool that assists a user to analyze in detail Firebird or InterBase database statistics and identify possible problems with database performance, maintenance and how an application interacts with the database. It graphically displays database statistics and can then automatically make intelligent suggestions about improving database performance and database maintenance.
http://www.ibsurgeon.com/news.html
Fast Report 3.19
The new version of the famous Fast Report is. now out. FastReport® 3 is an add-in component that gives your applications the ability to generate reports quickly and efficiently. FastReport® provides all the tools you need to develop reports. All variants of FastReport® 3 contains:
Visual report designer with rulers, guides and zooming, wizard for basic types of report, export filters for html, tiff, bmp, jpg, xls, pdf outputs, Dot matrix reports support, support for most popular DB-engines. Full WYSIWYG, text rotation 0..360 degrees, memo object supports simple html-tags (font color, b, i, u, sub, sup), improved stretching (StretchMode, ShiftMode properties), access to DB fields, styles, text flow, URLs, Anchors.
Trial:
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New versions of nice utilities from TECT Software
SPGen, Stored Procedure Generator for Firebird and InterBase, creates a standard set of stored procs for any table, full details can be found here (http://www.tectsoft.net/Products/Firebird/FIBSPGen.aspx).
And FBMail, Firebird EMail (FBMail) is a cross platform PHP utility which easily allows the sending of email’s direct from within a database. This utility is specifically aimed at ISP’s that support Firebird, but can easily be used on any computer which is connected to the internet. Full details can be found here (http://www.tectsoft.net/Products/Firebird/FBMail.aspx)
CopyTiger 1.00
CopyTiger, a new product from Microtec, is an advanced database replication & synchronisation tool for InterBase/Firebird, powered by their CopyCat component set (see the article about CopyCat in this issue).
For more information about CopyTiger see: http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/ct
Download an evaluation version: http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/ct/download.php?type=eval
SQLHammer 1.5 Enterprise Edition
The interesting developer tool, SQLHammer, now has an Enterprise Edition. SQLHammer is a high-performance tool for rapid database development and administration. It includes a common integrated development environment, registered custom components based on the Borland Package Library mechanism and an Open Tools API written in Delphi/Object Pascal.
