Firebird Conference 2011: Luxembourg, November 25-26

The Firebird Project invites all Firebird users and developers to participate in the Firebird Conference 2011, hich will take place in Luxembourg, November 25-26, 2011.

IBSurgeon is a sponsor of Firebird Conference 2011, and we recommend all our customers to go there.


The Firebird Conference 2011 will be devoted to a variety of important topics: Firebird SQL language improvements, performance, optimization, database protection and recovery, and many others.

A number of presentations will be done by the Firebird Core team, which will ensure access to information at the best technical levels. The Firebird Conference 2011 will be a place to improve your Firebird development skills and give a chance to ask questions directly to Firebird Core team.


Firebird Core Team will be represented by Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun, Alex Peshkoff, Philippe Makowski, etc. There are also will be speakers from IBSurgeon and other Firebird-related companies.

More information: www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2011/

Firebird Day'2010 in France

October 1, 2010 - Firebird Day took place in Paris, France.
31 attendees and speakers:

• Philippe Makowski, Firebird Foundation
• Thierry Laborde (CodeGear) : Delphi and Firebird.
• Henri Gourvest (progdigy.com) :
  Unicode, UIB, FB2.5 specifities in UIB.
• Frédéric Guillien (GrizzlyDev) :
  Maintenance best practice.
• Alexey Kovyazin
  Anti-corruption approach for Firebird - ppt is here are http://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/firebird-anticorruption-approach.
• Paul Reeves (IBPhoenix) :
  PHP Framework and Firebird.
• Pierre Yagger :
  Firebird and Ruby/Rails.

Conference is ready to start

 Philippe Makowski (is launching Firebird 2.5, so photo is too light :))

 Henri Gourvest (progdigy.com) :
Unicode, UIB, FB2.5 specifities in UIB

Paul Reeves (IBPhoenix), Philippe Makowski and unknown person, preparing for the next session  (Firebird and PHP)

Some moment of the conference

Almost all people were until the end of conference - probably, presentations were good!

3d Russian Firebird Conference: Photos

September 29, 2010 - 3d Russian Firebird Conference. 114 people attended. Here are some photos

Philippe Makowski and Dmitry Yemanov - coffee before sessions.

 Sessions will start soon.

Philippe and Dmitry.

 Kirill Sinitsin from Ansoft, Phillipe Makowski and Dmitry Yemanov

Opening of conference

Phillipe's talk

 Alexey Kovyazin, Alex Peshkoff, Vlad Khorsun and Phillipe Makowski

 

Dmitry Yemanov started his presentation

Alexey Kovyazin's presentation

 Room is full

Embarcadero session about Delphi

Alex Peshkoff's presentation

Another Embarcadero presentation

Unique photo: Firebird and InterBase at the sofa: Dmitry Yemanov and Christine Normile

Presentation about www.lensart.ru

Round table in the end of conference - from left to the right - Dmitry Yemanov, Alexey Kovyazin, Christine Normile, Vlad Khorsun, Philippe Makowski.

Alex Peshkoff, Vlad Khorsun, Philippe Makowski, Alexey Kovyazin

3d Russian Firebird Conference

3d Russian Firebird Conference will take place in Moscow, September
29, 2010. The conference will be devoted to the Firebird new versions
and to best practices in maintenance and development, with special
focus on big Firebird databases.

Special speakers at conference: Phillipe Makowski, President of
Firebird Foundation, Firebird developers team: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad
Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff.
Registration (in Russian): http://ibase.ru/conf2010/

Free FBDataGuard for Firebird Developer Day participants

At FDD'2010 Dmitry Kuzmenko has presented 2 presentations - the is one about approach to maintain big databases (50-400Gb) in the right way and the second is about restore speed tests.
Among other thing Dmitry said that any participant who will send email request to dataguard at ib-aid.com till 20-JUL-2010, will get this tool's 1 year license for free.
We just finished to process 108 requests and sent them all (check antispam folder if you did not get it).

So, it is interesting to see that approximately 20% of attendees can think about right database maintenance and how to avoid corruption. Other 80% are welcome to our recovery service.

7th Firebird Developers Days: Visit IBSurgeon's presentations

17th of July, Piracicaba, Brazil: The 7th Firebird Developers Day will take place in the UNIMEP university theatre. This is undoubtedly the biggest worlwide event devoted to Firebird - more that 600 people, dozen of speakers and lot of interest.
As you may knows, Brazil is the N1 country in terms of number of Firebird users (following with Germany, Russia and USA), and Firebird is the number 1 database in Brazil too.
This will be 4th time IBSurgeon sponsors and presents at FDD. This year Dmitry Kuzmenko will speak about big Firebird databases (you may remember that recently we did test with 1Terabyte Firebird database) and about speed of test restores.
Also at this event IBSurgeon will announce some serious changes in licensing policy, intended to encourage people to treat Firebird databases in more careful way.
We will follow the results of conference and post updates here.

The 1st Firebird Conference in Ukraine

At April 23, 2010, the first Firebird Conference in Ukraine took place. There were 90 people live and (average) 40 people online at this conference.
This is the first conference from the series of 10 events devoted to the 10th anniversary, it was organized by Grossbe (Ukrainian vendor of Firebird-based open-source ERP).

 IBSurgeon was the sponsor of this conference, our CEO Dmitry Kuzmenko has presented MindTheBird! to the audience and also spoke about protection against database corruptions and overall approach for the right maintenance of important Firebird databases using general techniques and new version of IBSurgeon's Firebird DataGuard product.

Firebird Core Developers Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff presented the new features of Firebird, deep dive presentations devoted to the SQL enhancements, security improvements and other hot topics.
Definitely it was a great success for Firebird which confirmed the strong position of this true open source DBMS in Ukraine. We are sure that next year we'll meet again with Ukrainian Firebird developers and continue our success evolution with Firebird.

Below you can see several pictures from the Firebird Conference in Ukraine.