IBPhoenix Home

Latest Firebird and InterBase® Related News and Information

Developer CD #14 - January 2008
IBPhoenix is now shipping its thirteenth Developer CD. The Developer CD's contain binaries for the latest builds and installs for Firebird (1.0x, 1.5.x, 2.0x. 2.1) and other Firebird related software. The two CD's one called "The Essentials" contains Firebird binaries, Documentation and Drivers. The other called "The Supplements" contains Tools, source code and CD search engine. Included on the CD is an application that allows a user to browse and search the Firebird support and developer lists. More details about the CD here. To order a copy of the fourteenth CD, click here.

The Firebird Book: a Reference for Database Developers by Helen Borrie, and now the electronic Firebird 2 Supplement for the Firebird Book are available directly from IBPhoenix. If you want more information, or wish to order your copy you can do so now via the on-line shop. If you buy (or bought) your copy of The Firebird Book from IBPhoenix, the Supplement is free.
Update: 12th May 2008: The supplement has now been updated to include Firebird V2.1

Firebird Goodies Want your own Firebird T-Shirt, Polo Shirt or Firebird Mug to impress your friends and advertise your favourite open source database? Well now you can.

Box IBPhoenix Firebird Developer Pack - A comprehensive set of professional tools for developing with the Firebird database.

The Firebird and InterBase® Community Development Journal

02-Jul-2008	Solaris and the 256 File Descriptor Problem on Paul Beach's blog.
02-Jul-2008	"Work-in-Progress" release notes for the forthcoming Firebird 2.5 Alpha are available for browsing online.
02-Jul-2008	IBReplicator V3.0.4 has been released and is available for download.
01-Jul-2008	KInterbasDB V3.2.1 Patch Release - This is a maintenance version for KInterbasDB V3.2 that fixes the issues with transaction parameters and services when working with Firebird V2.1.
26-Jun-2008	Passwords in Firebird on Daniel's Computer Blog.
26-Jun-2008	Jaybird V2.1.5 has been released and is available for download. This release fixes a bug introduced in V2.1.4 where events did not work on Linux.
25-Jun-2008	Datanamic release two new database comparison Tools, DB Data Difftective and DB Schema Difftective.
24-Jun-2008	Don't silently turn your outer joins into inner joins on pabloj's blog.
23-Jun-2008	PHP Firebird driver á la ActiveRecord on Guillermo Cruz's blog.
23-Jun-2008	You can now register for the 6th International Firebird Conference (Bergamo (Italy), 25-27th September 2008. Book early to get your early bird discount.
20-Jun-2008	Firebird V2.1.1 Release Candidate 1 Classic and SuperServer builds for MacOSX (PowerPC) are now available.
19-Jun-2008	Day 10: Hooking Morfik M2 To An External Database Management Tool by Ajax Developer mentions Firebird.
18-Jun-2008	Oops IBM says it has 'no plans' to open-source DB2 database by Eric Lai on InfoWorld.
18-Jun-2008	IBReplicator V3.0.3 has been released and is available for download.
18-Jun-2008	Firebird V2.1.1 Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing.
See the news archive for past news articles.

InterBase® is a registered trademark of Borland Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.