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Developer CD #15 - August 2008
IBPhoenix is now shipping its fifteenth 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 2.5) 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 fifteenth 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

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The Firebird and InterBase® Community Development Journal

30-Dec-2008	Firebird Roadmap for 2009 is available.
18-Dec-2008	Firebird V2.0.5 Release Candidate 2 is available for download.
15-Dec-2008	An updated version (V1.7.2) of the Firebird .NET provider for .NET 1.1 is available. This update fixes a problem when connecting to Firebird V2.1
11-Dec-2008	A new version of FSQL (a command line utility for executing SQL scripts) is available.
10-Dec-2008	StudioSoft Informatica have published a new tool - Herodotus, a Firebird/InterBase tool for logging database operations.
09-Dec-2008	Firebird 2.1 UPDATE or INSERT on Mario H. Cornejo's blog
08-Dec-2008	CodeRage 2008 Closing Session: Firebird and Delphi for Mac/Linux mentioned on Marco Cantu's blog
08-Dec-2008	Gartner reports 50 percent growth in use of open source DBMS
05-Dec-2008	Firebird TPC Benchmarking Part 1 - Porting the TPC-H suite on Thomas Steinmaurer's blog
05-Dec-2008	Name and path of .NET program accessing a Firebird database on Jiri Cincura's blog
05-Dec-2008	Interesting article: SQL identifiers and case sensitivity by Lorenzo Alberton
03-Dec-2008	Thomas Steinmaurer's "Aggregatstabellen mit Firebird" article in Entwickler Magazin is available as a download.
02-Dec-2008	Working with Firebird and InterBase in Delphi using IBProvider and dbGo components by Andrew Merkulov (IBProvider).
01-Dec-2008	IBReplicator V3.0.7 has been released. For more information please read the release notes.
28-Nov-2008	Firebird version 2.1 et futur, an article by Philippe Makowski in Linux Magazine France (en francais)
See the news archive for past news articles.

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