Thursday, March 27, 2008

firebird 2.1 rc2+flamerobin for ubuntu hardy/gutsy are ready

Here is the guide to install firebird2.1 and flamerobin on ubuntu hardy/gutsy



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Monday, March 24, 2008

Notes about multithreading and download link

you can follow this thread about the multithreading and at the end there is an download link

for windows only for the moment
http://www.flamerobin.org/mghie/flamerobin-boosted.zip


run the included executable. It should load your current
fr_databases.conf file and show the databases in a tree.
Double-clicking a database node initiates the connection in a worker
thread. Please note that you can try to connect to a database on an
unavailable server, and continue to work with the program. Current FR
would freeze until the timeout.

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Notes about multithreading

I have created a new branch in SVN with the code that I have currently
written for a multi-threaded FlameRobin, using Boost libraries.

If you are interested you can check it out from

<https://flamerobin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/flamerobin/branches/fr-with-boost>

I have built it using MSVC++ on Windows, and using gcc on Ubuntu. Boost
libraries need to be installed on the machine, that can be done using
apt-get on Ubuntu, and by manually installing the latest libraries
installer from www.boost.org on Windows. On Windows the environment
variable BOOST_ROOT needs to be defined.

The code doesn't do a whole lot currently: It loads the
fr_databases.conf file and shows the databases in a tree view.
Double-click or [Return] on a database node connects / disconnects a
database. Connected databases show the lists of system tables and user
tables. These lists are populated on-demand, when the collection nodes
are to be expanded. All access to the database (API calls) is performed
in a background thread.

The most interesting (as in different from current FlameRobin sources)
code can be found in src/hierarchy (DBH uses Boost smart pointers) and
in src/engine (multi-threaded API calls).

Tests of the code and comments are very welcome.

Thanks

--
Michael Hieke


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flamerobin 0.8.6 included in gentoo

here is the changelog for the package

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Accepted 0.8.6-1 in debian unstable

flamerobin 0.8.6 is available in unstable and can be installed /compiled in any debian version

here is the message from the debian package page

[2008-03-18] Accepted 0.8.6-1 in unstable (low) (Damyan Ivanov)

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flamerobin - 0.8.6 package for ubuntu hardy/gutsy is ready

flamerobin - 0.8.6 added to ubuntu hardy/gutsy repository and uploaded

flamerobin 0.8.6 is now included in official hardy rapository
and can be installed by an simple

$sudo apt-get install flamerobin
Or click here to install


If you want to use it with firebird 2.1 in hardy or have gutsy installed then you will need to use this repository

https://launchpad.net/~mapopa/+archive

you can install flamerobin 0.8.6 final + firebird2.1 in ubuntu 8.04 by adding these lines in the /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main

$sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install flamerobin

$flamerobin

and now check the about box , make an screenshot and put it on flickr or

make an video and upload it to youtube

for gutsy you need to use these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu gutsy main

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FlameRobin 0.8.6 is out

This is mostly a bug-fix release, probably a first ’stable’ 0.8
version without major bugs. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and
source code package are available for download. I recommend all Linux
distribution packagers to upgrade (especially if you still use 0.8.3
or lower). Here’s the changelog since 0.8.3:

New features
- DataGrid: BLOB data is now (optionally) shown in cells. Read-only for now.
- DataGrid: A basic ORDER BY clause building when column header is
double-clicked
- Support for LIST function in Firebird 2.1
- Support for MON tables in Firebird 2.1 (Read-only for now.)

Enhancements and Bug fixes
- DataGrid: FR no longer crashes when transaction has ended
(commit/rollback) and grid edit control is active
- DataGrid: Complete string is now shown for editing and copying multiline text
- DataGrid: Copy command now copies a single cell if nothing is selected
- DataGrid: Fixed mixup between BLOB ID and data it contains
- DataGrid: Fixed bug when editing or deleting in grid causes exceptions.
- DataGrid: Successfully deleted rows are deselected, so user can
easily see what is done.
- DDL extraction for GRANTs now only quotes names when needed
- DDL extraction for defaults does not use double quotes anymore.
- Database property page now shows minor ODS version when it is not zero
- Hovering over icons in privileges window, now really shows the grantor
- Improved parsing of SELECT statements
- Support for INSERT..RETURNING and EXECUTE STATEMENT that return a
single record
- Fixed messagebox flood when Execute Procedure called and it doesn’t
return anything
- Print preview and SaveToHtmlFile works again for manual and changelog
- Extracting invalid DDL (missing domain data in system tables) does
not crash FR anymore
- Silent installation (on Windows) does not show changelog window anymore
- Autogenerated domains (system domains) do not show up in the tree anymore
- Added ALTER DOMAIN action for domains
- Tree now shows NOT NULL for columns that inherit NOT NULL from domain
- Fixed parsing bug when non-reserved keyword is used as identifier
- Fixed autocomplete for selectable procedure alias when procedure
call contains parameters (in PSQL)


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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Gtk2 snapshot will become final 0.8.6 release

You'll be glad to know that I just built and uploaded 0.8.5.1645 Gtk2
package - which will probably become the official 0.8.6 release in the
next few days.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124340&package_id=251789

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Changes in FlameRobin 0.8.6 ALPHA

From the svn changelog

New features


- DataGrid: BLOB data is now (optionally) shown in cells. Read-only for now.
- DataGrid: A basic ORDER BY clause building when column header is double-clicked
- Support for LIST function in Firebird 2.1
- Support for MON tables in Firebird 2.1 (Read-only for now.)


Enhancements and Bug fixes

- DataGrid: FR no longer crashes when transaction has ended (commit/rollback) and grid edit control is active
- DataGrid: Complete string is now shown for editing and copying multiline text
- DataGrid: Copy command now copies a single cell if nothing is selected
- DataGrid: Fixed mixup between BLOB ID and data it contains
- DataGrid: Fixed bug when editing or deleting in grid causes exceptions.
- DataGrid: Successfully deleted rows are deselected, so user can easily see what is done.
- DDL extraction for GRANTs now only quotes names when needed
- DDL extraction for defaults does not use double quotes anymore.
- Hovering over icons in privileges window, now really shows the grantor
- Improved parsing of SELECT statements
- Support for INSERT..RETURNING and EXECUTE STATEMENT that return a single record
- Fixed messagebox flood when Execute Procedure called and it doesn't return anything
- Print preview and SaveToHtmlFile works again for manual and changelog
- Extracting invalid DDL (missing domain data in system tables) does not crash FR anymore
- Silent instalation (on Windows) does not show changelog window anymore
- Autogenerated domains (system domains) do not show up in the tree anymore
- Added ALTER DOMAIN action for domains
- Tree now shows NOT NULL for columns that inherit NOT NULL from domain
- Fixed parsing bug when non-reserved keyword is used as identifier.
- Fixed autocomplete for selectable procedure alias when procedure call contains parameters (in PSQL)

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot for ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron is ready

you can install flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot into ubuntu 8.04 by adding these lines in the /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main

$sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install flamerobin

$flamerobin

and now check the about box , make an screenshot and put it on flickr or

make an video and upload it to youtube


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flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot ready in the debian repository



you can test it in debian unstable (amd64 and i386)
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin

Other binary snapshots for 0.8.5 are here
(you can tests on other operating systems)


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Friday, February 29, 2008

New Firebird Silver Sponsor from South Africa

And some nice words about flamerobin :) (kudos to the flamerobin team)

From Firebird Foundation blog via firebirdnews.org:

QuickEasy Software, from Cape Town, today became a Silver sponsor, with CEO Heinrich van der Vyver stating “…recently converted our software from IB6 to run on Firebird 2.0.3 and I’m very pleased with the result, also with the backend utility Flamerobin.”



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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

flamerobin 0.8.3 in ubuntu's ppa gutsy repository

I have added i386 and amd64 packages for gutsy (stable version)
You can install flamerobin 0.8.3 this way

add these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu gutsy main

then
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install flamerobin
you will have an authentication error (an small bug in ppa)

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
flamerobin
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

$flamerobin

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

flamerobin 0.8.3 in ubuntu's ppa repository

For the moment i have i386 and amd64 packages for hardy (devel version)
You can install flamerobin 0.8.3 this way

add these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main

then
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install flamerobin
you will have an authentication error (an small bug in ppa)

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
flamerobin
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

$flamerobin


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ppa builds complete

[FULLYBUILT] lpia build of flamerobin 0.8.3-1ubuntu7 in ubuntu hardy RELEASE
Build started 25 minutes ago on rhenium (xen-lpia) and finished 17 minutes ago taking eight minutes — see the log
[FULLYBUILT] i386 build of flamerobin 0.8.3-1ubuntu7 in ubuntu hardy RELEASE
Build started 27 minutes ago on thallium (xen-i386) and finished 18 minutes ago taking nine minutes — see the log
[FULLYBUILT] amd64 build of flamerobin 0.8.3-1ubuntu7 in ubuntu hardy RELEASE
Build started 25 minutes ago on osmium (xen-amd64) and finished 16 minutes ago taking eight minutes — see the log


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Friday, February 22, 2008

flamerobin 0.8.3 is uploaded to ppa.launchpad.net

First version is for ubuntu hardy amd64, i hope to add soon the other versions (gutsy)
The packages must be approved first then they will be visible here https://launchpad.net/~mapopa/+archive

Here is how it was done folowing this quick ppa howto
I have created an configuration file
$vi ~/.dput.cf
[my-ppa]
fqdn = ppa.launchpad.net
method = ftp
incoming = ~mapopa/ubuntu/
login = anonymous
allow_unsigned_uploads = 0

Then downloaded and extracted flamerobin debian version
$dget -x http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/flamerobin/flamerobin_0.8.3-1.dsc

$cd flamerobin-0.8.3

I have installed quilt/dput on my machine
$apt-get install quilt dput
I have modified debian/rules and debian/control to add myself to the maintainers
something like is described in this document
Increased the ubuntu package nr
$dch -i
$debuild -S -sa
$dput my-ppa flamerobin_0.8.3-1ubuntu6_source.changes
Here is the log

Checking Signature on .changes
gpg: Signature made Fri 22 Feb 2008 08:54:52 AM EST using DSA key ID 350F6DE9
gpg: Good signature from "Popa Adrian Marius (Mariuz) "
Good signature on /home/mariuz/work/flamerobin/flamerobin_0.8.3-1ubuntu6_source.changes.
Checking Signature on .dsc
gpg: Signature made Fri 22 Feb 2008 08:54:45 AM EST using DSA key ID 350F6DE9
gpg: Good signature from "Popa Adrian Marius (Mariuz) "
Good signature on /home/mariuz/work/flamerobin/flamerobin_0.8.3-1ubuntu1.dsc.
Uploading to my-ppa (via ftp to ppa.launchpad.net):
Uploading to ubuntu (via ftp to upload.ubuntu.com):
flamerobin_0.8.3-1ubuntu6.dsc: done.
flamerobin_0.8.3.orig.tar.gz: done.
flamerobin_0.8.3-1ubuntu6.diff.gz: done.
flamerobin_0.8.3-1ubuntu6_source.changes: done.
Successfully uploaded packages.
Not running dinstall.




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building flamerobin from debian git repository

git-clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/flamerobin.git
cd flamerobin

debuild -i -us -uc -b

ls -lah ../*deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 900K 2008-02-22 12:45 ../flamerobin_0.8.3-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i ../flamerobin_0.8.3-1_i386.deb
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Monday, February 18, 2008

GCC slowness... problem solved

[Ed: Milan solved the speed problem for g++, here is what he wrote on devel-list]
Hi all,

Today I tried building FlameRobin with MSVC Express. It works really
nice and it builds FR from scratch in about 2.5 minutes on this
machine where I tried it (Intel Celeron M 1.4GHz with 256MB RAM). This
in on Windows XP Pro with all anti-virus and similar software turned
off.

Then I tried on Linux (it's a dual boot machine) and GCC took 272
seconds, i.e. 4.5 minutes. Both compilers are using PCH. I got really
frustrated about this in the past, so much that I considered to
install Windows on my machine and do FR development there.

But, I suddenly got the idea that GCC might be losing too much time
optimizing. So, I tried to lover the optimization from level 2 to
level 1. I got slight improvement: 225 seconds. Still too slow. Then I
turned it off, and I got the amazing 130 seconds, i.e. 2:10. This is
quite acceptable to development and I guess I'll only use -O2 when we
build the release versions from now on.

The option can be changed by setting CXXFLAGS environment variable
before you run 'configure' script. Something like this (if your shell
is bash):

$ export CXXFLAGS=
$ ../configure ...
$ make

It looks like GCC isn't that bad after all.

--
Milan Babuskov


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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

uploading flamerobin to download.com

One way to spread the word about flamerobin is to upload it to download.com
Here are some of the " benefits " , Linux world is better than the winworld
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Saturday, February 02, 2008

building flamerobin package - debian/ubuntu way

Here is how to build flamerobin package from debian repository (sid) experimental
sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.6-dev quilt
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/flamerobin/flamerobin_0.8.3.orig.tar.gz
tar -zxvf flamerobin_0.8.3.orig.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/flamerobin/flamerobin_0.8.3-1.diff.gz
gunzip flamerobin_0.8.3-1.diff.gz
cd flamerobin-0.8.3-src/
patch -p1 < ../flamerobin_0.8.3-1.diff
debuild -i
[drink some beer]
ls -lah *.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 mariuz mariuz 907K 2008-02-02 11:39 flamerobin_0.8.3-1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i flamerobin_0.8.3-1_i386.deb

flamerobin

ps: i used an previous firebird guide

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Flamerobin code used with wxLua

I never used wx's ODBC classes; I'm using SQLite3 (via wxSQLite3) / FireBird (via IBPP) databases. I already have -hand written- Lua bindings of wxSQLite3 and IBPP. In a recent C++ project, I used wxGrid/FireBird (code taken from FlameRobin); I like it. Now I want to test/use them with wxLua.
Re: About wxGrid with database wxPropertyGrid usage

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Displaying multiline text and blobs

Milan wrote on the mailing lists :

I have implemented the ability to show blob data in the grid and now the
need to show multiline text has increased. I have some ideas about it,
but I'd like to see as much possible feedback as I believe many users
are using multiline text columns. Here are the ideas of UI to cover
it:

a) show tooltip while mouse hovers over cells
b) show tooltip on some user action (like double-click)
c) have a separate subwindow (split grid or sql editor adding another
column to it) which stays on screen until user closes (hides) it
d) have a separate window/dialog that would only show the data

c) and d) is something I plan for Blobs with tabs for
text/hex/image/etc. representation, so maybe it is the best idea for
text as well? Such dialog could have some options like 'save to file'
and similar.

Please give any comment or your own idea. I might even set up a
website poll if we can't figure out what is the best solution.

Thanks,

--
Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org


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Thursday, December 20, 2007

FlameRobin 0.8.3 released

We've rolled out a new release as promised, mostly bugfixes with some important improvements in efficiency(faster work over slow links, faster processing of long SQL statements and more responsive data grid when used with large datasets), please download it and try it. We have binary packages for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and sources, of course. This is a bugfix release for 0.8.1. Here are the things fixed in 0.8.3.


Wednesday, November 21, 2007

wxWidgets 3.0

However soon -- hopefully in the beginning of the next year -- we will release wxWidgets 3.0 which will be the first change of major version since a long time and only the second time it happens in wxWidgets history. So it may be interesting to look at what exactly has changed to warrant this and I'll try to briefly describe it in this post.
[Hurray we will get rid of wxT() macro in code ]
wxBlog

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

x2develop: Jiří Činčura : FlameRobin Portable

I like the software without installation, just one exe, one config saved on some well know place or near exe. For Firebird administration, I'm mainly using wfsql (better isql), IBExpert and FlameRobin (and sometimes isql).
x2develop: Jiří Činčura : FlameRobin Portable

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Quick Start Firebird : Perkenalan Praktis « Let’s Go Green !

Quick Start Firebird in indonesian language

Spotted on worpress.com firebird tag area

with an small note about flamerobin :P



Quick Start Firebird : Perkenalan Praktis « Let’s Go Green !

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Windows test builds

I will be posting test builds of the SVN code for Windows (Ansi and Unicode versions) from time to time. You will be able to find them at the test-builds directory of the FlameRobin website.

The first available version is built from SVN trunk, revision 1522.

Just unzip the proper version (vc/flamerobin.exe for Windows 95 and 98, vcu/flamerobin.exe for Windows 2000, XP and Vista) into your program directory. The builds are for testing new features and may have bugs, so if you depend on FlameRobin and want to make sure that you can go back to the last official version, just rename the original executable instead of overwriting it.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Accepted flamerobin 0.8.1 in debian

it was accepted into unstable version

http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/flamerobin.html
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Mandriva 2008 errata with new flamerobin 0.8.1 included

Various crasher bugs in Flamerobin

The version included with Mandriva Linux 2008 of Flamerobin, a database administration tool, contained various bugs that could potentially lead to crashes.

We have chosen to fix this issue by providing a new release through the /contrib/updates repository. The updated package, flamerobin-0.8.1-1mdv2008.0, was released on October 23rd 2007. It provides version 0.8.1, which fixes several of these crasher bugs. See the "Installing Updates" section, above, for instructions on installing packages from /contrib/updates.



http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Errata#Various_crasher_bugs_in_Flamerobin



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New test version available

I have posted a new version with the mask creation parameter set to 16.
Please download it at

http://www.flamerobin.org/mghie

and try on Windows 95, 98, 2000 and so on.

Thanks

--
Michael Hieke

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

flamerobin 0.8.1 released

Changes: And here's the changelog for 0.8.1: New features - SQL Editor: added command to Execute statements from cursor position - SQL Editor: themable toolbar icons (support for entire FR in next version) Enhancements and Bug fixes - SQL Editor window now has a standard menu and toolbar - Editable grid: fields are now set to NULL when DELETE key is pressed in empty box - Fixed crash when Insert clicked after transaction Commit/Rollback - Fixed crash when Insert clicked while editing field value - Fixed problem with Insert being disabled until column info is loaded - Fixed charset conversion problems with editable grid and insert dialog - Insert and Delete buttons are now properly enabled and disabled - Fixed DDL extraction for usernames in privileges - Windows version can be installed without administrative privileges
SourceForge.net: Files

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Download FlameRobin 0.8.0 - FlameRobin is a database administration tool for Firebird DBMS. - Softpedia

Also the softpedia page seems to be updated with some screenshots (don't know what version it is...)
Download FlameRobin 0.8.0 - FlameRobin is a database administration tool for Firebird DBMS. - Softpedia

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Flamerobin 0.8.0 download - Flamerobin (aded to icewalkers.com)

Release Notes : The ability to edit, add, and remove existing rows of the DataGrid directly was added. This works even for joins and complex queries. A basic Test Data Generator was added, as was the ability to create a selectable stored procedure for a table.
Flamerobin 0.8.0 download - Flamerobin

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Monday, October 15, 2007

FileForum | FlameRobin for Linux 0.8.0 aproved

The update of your program FlameRobin for Windows/Linux/Macosx to version 0.8.0 has been approved.

maybe i should update the screenshot also on our main screenshots area with new version


FileForum | FlameRobin for Linux

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FileForum | FlameRobin for Windows/Linux/Macosx

BetaNews.com has received a new release submission of:

FlameRobin for Linux/Windows/Macosx version 0.8.0

Once the release has been approved by FileForum editors, it will appear on the site.

FileForum | FlameRobin for Windows

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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Changes in FlameRobin 0.8.0 ALPHA

New features in FlameRobin 0.8.0

- DataGrid: ability to edit (UPDATE) existing rows directly in the grid
- DataGrid: ability to add (INSERT) rows in the grid (with BLOB support)
- DataGrid: ability to remove (DELETE) one or multiple rows from the grid
- DataGrid: all features of editable grid work even for joins and complex queries
- DataGrid: data can now be exported as CSV values
- A basic Test Data Generator (please test, we need your feedback to improve it)
- Ability to create a selectable stored procedure for a table

Complete changelog

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

flamerobin/firebird livecd+bootable usb key with mandriva this time

I made a Mandriva Live CD with Firebird

Inside is Mandriva 2007.1, Firebird 2.0.1 Classic, Flamerobin, Ibwebadmin,
kinterbasdb.

Default language is French, but you can change it.
The good news is that it made with MCNLive so you can do your own iso from it
and even make your own bootable usb key, simply using a wizzard !
Thanks MCNLive.

To download it :
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/firebird-fr/fbmdv.iso
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/firebird-fr/fbmdv.iso.md5.txt

Next step will be to add Lazarus FreePascal on it with UIB components


Philippe Makowski
http://www.ibphoenix.com
Supporting users of Firebird and InterBase
Firebird serveur SQL open-source en français http://firebird-fr.eu.org


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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

creating an flamerobin/firebird livecd with ubuntu feisty fawn


You can download the final live cd from this page 
i used this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
download ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
in my case my nearest mirror
wget http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ubuntulinux.org/releases/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso
sudo apt-get install squashfs-tools mkisofs qemu
sudo modprobe squashfs
cp ~/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso ~/live/
cd ~/live
mkdir mnt
sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso mnt
mkdir extract-cd
rsync --exclude=/casper/filesystem.squashfs -a mnt/ extract-cd
mkdir squashfs
sudo mount -t squashfs -o loop mnt/casper/filesystem.squashfs squashfs
mkdir edit
sudo cp -a squashfs/* edit/
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf edit/etc/
sudo cp /etc/hosts edit/etc/
sudo chroot edit
mount -t proc none /proc
mount -t sysfs none /sys
export HOME=/root
export LC_ALL=C
in the Customization part (after you do sudo chroot edit)
I decomented the two lines in /etc/apt/sources.list sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe
apt-get update
apt-get install flamerobin
apt-get install firebird2-super-server

Please enter new password for SYSDBA user:masterkey
apt-get clean
rm -rf /tmp/*
rm /etc/resolv.conf
umount /proc
umount /sys
exit
chmod +w extract-cd/casper/filesystem.manifest
sudo chroot edit dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Version}\n' > extract-cd/casper/filesystem.manifest
sudo cp extract-cd/casper/filesystem.manifest extract-cd/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop
sudo sed -ie '/ubiquity/d' extract-cd/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop

sudo rm extract-cd/casper/filesystem.squashfs
sudo mksquashfs edit extract-cd/casper/filesystem.squashfs
sudo -s
rm extract-cd/md5sum.txt
cd extract-cd && find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > md5sum.txt
exit
sudo mkisofs -r -V "$IMAGE_NAME" -cache-inodes -J -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o ../ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386-flamerobin.iso .
qemu -cdrom ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386-flamerobin.iso -boot d

or write the iso ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386-flamerobin.iso on the dvd with k3b or nautilus
after the system boots you can create an database with
the username:sysdba
password:masterkey
and the path
/tmp/flamrobin.fdb


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Popularity contest statistics for flamerobin (in debian )

popcon graph

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=flamerobin

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Monday, September 03, 2007

browser usage on the flamerbin.org page

More than 57% are using firefox also the other browsers are in the charts too

konqueror, safari , opera

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

install firbird 2.0.2 and flamerobin on ubuntu dapper LTS version (amd64)

I have been a big fan of the Firebird database for a while now. It is a fast, reliable and maintenance free database which suits my needs. While it is very good at a couple of things, one of the features that I like is the fact that the entire database is stored in one file. In principle this is not important, but it is pretty clean and can be very useful.

trying to solve IT problems » Blog Archive » install firebird 2.0.2 on Ubuntu dapper amd64

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

flamerobin 0.7.6-3 in ubuntu gutsy launchpad

flamerobin 0.7.6-3 (i386 binary) in ubuntu gutsy, the interesting thing is about the building log

flamerobin 0.7.6-3 (i386 binary) in ubuntu gutsy

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

FlameRobin worth $1.2 milion

I added FlameRobin to ohloh.net. It took our code from repository and calculated the development cost: 1.200.000 USD. Wow, I guess nobody would want to invest that kind of money into FR, but we invested our time/work instead :)

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

presentations held at eliberatica

Below you can find in the order listed on the conference schedule, the presentations held at eLiberatica.

eLiberatica Conference - 2007 - Welcome!

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

New testing version is here

I rebuilt FR against wxWidgets 2.8.4, with only one small change: In
Ansi build the fr_databases.conf file is saved now with the system
character set. The conversion to and from UTF-8 does not work in the
Ansi build, anyway, so all characters >= 128 (like umlaut chars) where
mangled.

I hope these work for all of you, but please make a backup copy of your
fr_databases.conf file *before* you test the new executables. Please
find them at

http://www.flamerobin.org/mghie/FR_0.7.7_wx2.8.4.zip>

and check them out. Should work much better than the build against CVS
HEAD, and could be a good test for using 2.8.4 for the next official
FlameRobin build.

Thanks for any feedback

--
Michael Hieke


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Monday, May 07, 2007

First step to make compatible with wxWidgets CVS HEAD

*Michael commited First step to make compatible with wxWidgets CVS HEAD (see http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_UTF-8_Support for reasons of wxChar type casts)

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Sunday, May 06, 2007

Keyboard shortcuts for advanced users ?

Eugen Stoianovici wrote on the flamerobin-devel lists :

First of all, i've been using flamerobin ever since i've switched from postgress to firebird(some time last spring or summer) and it's great .
Are there any keyboard shortcuts implemented in flamerobin's main window?

It would be great if i could use my mouse less than now. Here's what i have in mind
:
main window
1. Shortcut for registering new server
2. Shortcut for registering new database
3. Shortcut for running a query
4. Shortcut for disconnect

query window

1. Shortcut for new window

I'ld be more than happy to implement these features but instead of diving right into coding, i wanted to ask for an unified view on this matter

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Monday, March 19, 2007

flamerobin+firebird+ibutils mentioned on one blog post (written in Italian language)

In particolare, in seguito alla continua ricerca in rete di "strumenti" (sempre aggratiss) per lavorare con Firebird e in seguito a ripetuti confronti tra tutto ciò che offre il web, mi sento di poter riassumere in due link quelli che sono attualmente i miei ferri del mestiere che, quindi, consiglio a tutti: Flamerobin, per lavorare via sql con tabelle e procedure, IBUtils per disegnare la struttura del db in maniera grafica e visuale.

michele de meo

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Fikret Added instruction how to build flamerobin using MS VC++ 2005 Express

 MSW - Visual C++ 2005 Express Build Instructions  Microsoft Visual C++ Express is a freeware version of MS Visual Studio. There are two ways to build FlameRobin. One is via the dsp/dsw  project files, and the other is via the makefile.vc command line makefile.

SourceForge.net Repository - [flamerobin] View of /trunk/flamerobin/BUILD.txt

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

rate flamerobin on linuxappfinder

Login or Register to rate FlameRobin, add a Tag, or designate as an alternative to a Windows app

FlameRobin | Linux App Finder

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

flamerobin used in osFinacials software

After downloading the osFinancials software, you may proceed to install the software.

The Installation process consists of 3 basic steps:

  1. Installation of the osFinancials program http://www.osfinancials.org
  2. Installation of the Firebird Database Engine http://www.firebirdsql.org
  3. Installation of FlameRobin Database Admin Software http://www.flamerobin.org

Single User Eng Install manual - OsFinancials Wiki

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Help us improve FlameRobin

Do you use fast-search bar ? vote in this pool

flamerobin.org

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

wrapped Millan :)

Milan got one of themand was immediately wrapped in it

Firebird Conference 2006 - ... Milan got one of them

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milan babuskov doing the presentation @ conference

He showed us the techniques he uses to do metadata updates. That was quite interesting and there was some discussion coming up how other people do it. The problem seems to be the same everywhere but there is not one solution for all ...

Firebird Conference 2006 - Milan Babuskov

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milan @ firebird conference

The Tourist

Firebird Conference 2006 - The Tourist

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Firebird Conference 2006 papers

The papers  for the Firebird Conference 2006 talks are available for download here (you need to right click and use “Save As”).
watch the
Developing Cross-Platform Applications with Firebird and wxWidgets
Milan Babuskov

Digg - Papers of Firebird Conference 2006

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Friday, January 05, 2007

how to create an local svk mirror

Here is how i created an local svk mirror for me

svk mirror http://flamerobin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/flamerobin/trunk //mirror/flamerobin
svk sync //mirror/flamerobin
svk cp //mirror/flamerobin //local/flamerobin
mkdir ./mariuz-flamerobin
cd ./mariuz-flamerobin
svk co //local/flamerobin


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Distributed Revision Control System and flamerobin

In case you want to use an Distributed Revision Control System like SVK (and work on a local mirror) Here  is an guide writen for Gnome project but you can apply it to flamerobin too (just replace the project name and repository)

For Once I Oneder » Blog Archive » Distributed Revision Control and Gnome

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Monday, December 04, 2006

what is new in feisty fawn ? flamerobin by default

So what are we going to get? It is hard to exactly predict, but some things seem certain. Feisty will certainly lead the way with new desktop technologies, including 3d effects and windows that wobble.
[ED: now flamerobin is included by default and can be installed by doing:
 sudo apt-get install flamerobin in linux console]

FeistyFawn/Herd1 - Ubuntu Wiki

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

BetaNews.com has received a new release submission of:

    FlameRobin for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows for  version 0.7.6

Once the release has been approved by FileForum editors, it will appear on the site.


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FlameRobin 0.7.6 screenshot ( for reference )

Mariuz said he needs one, so here it is. This one's on Windows XP

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Monday, November 13, 2006

flamerobin is updated on beta news fileforum page

FlameRobin has the following other editions available

seems that flamerobin is updated on beta news



Your releases pending approval:

FlameRobin for Linux 0.7.5

FlameRobin for Mac OS X 0.7.5

FlameRobin for Windows 0.7.5

submitted 11/13/2006



FileForum | FlameRobin for Windows





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Monday, November 06, 2006

flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo

I recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo's
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then

emerge flamerobin
on Gentoo

I have had an ebuild for FlameRobin since 0.4.8. I posted to the list
long ago about it I believe. I became a dev a few months back, and not
sure why I did not think to commit it sooner.

The ebuild is masked/keyworded unstable/experimental. Although it's been
stable for me on both x86, and amd64 for some time. In 30 days or so,
baring any bug reports. I will file stabilization requests with the arch
teams.

Thanks for all the hard work on a great tool. Hopefully this will help
to increase the user base a bit, so your work can be appreciated by even
more.

--
William L. Thomson Jr.
Gentoo/Java


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Thursday, November 02, 2006

firebird conference demo project (wxwidgets+ibpp)

you can download the demo project from here http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flamerobin/EmptyProject.zip?download

After unpacking, follow the HOWTO.txt for a short step-by-step explanation.

Using stuff from FR, I made a minimal program structure (bakefile,makefiles, etc.) that enables anyone to have a quick start when creatingnew applications with IBPP and wxWidgets. The program allows you to typethe project name, and it does search&replace on all files, giving you anempty project where you can easily add new .cpp and .h files to thebakefile.

FlameRobin: flamerobin @ Firebird Conference 2006

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Friday, October 27, 2006

flamerobin @ Firebird Conference 2006

Hi guys,

I'd like to know who (if any) of you plans to go to this year's
conference. Nando? Michael? Marius maybe? Olivier? I know Olivier's
paper was not accepted unfortunately. I know that Fikret is going to be
there.

As for my talks, none of them is about FlameRobin directly, but both
will touch it. Esp. the session about cross platform development with
wxWidgets and IBPP:

Using stuff from FR, I made a minimal program structure (bakefile,
makefiles, etc.) that enables anyone to have a quick start when creating
new applications with IBPP and wxWidgets. The program allows you to type
the project name, and it does search&replace on all files, giving you an
empty project where you can easily add new .cpp and .h files to the
bakefile.

I plan to add this as a module to flamerobin svn tree. It would be
called "template" or something like that. I hope you guys agree with this?

Once online, I'd appreciate if someone would find the time to test if
this "minimal sample" work with MSVC and work on MacOSX, as I don't have
access to them.

As a result, anyone who wants to start a new project with wxWidgets and
IBPP (i.e. developing cross-platform GUI app. for Firebird) would have
an easy start.

--
Milan Babuskov
http://swoes.blogspot.com/



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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

flamerobin package status on other marchitectures

[when firebird will be ready on all other architectures we will have an flamerobin build on them too , my dream is flamerobin+firebird on nokia770]


An empty cell means that there is no buildd information for that package version on that arch; this is normally because the package is arch:all or the arch has been told to ignore the package by the buildd admins. The number after a "Needs build" is the position in the queue.

Package status

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spreading the word about flamerobin 0.7.5

- sf.net news area [ DONE]
- softpedia [ done linux version is updated -last time was Done by milan]
- freshmeat.net [DONE]
- betanews.net [DONE]
- gnomefiles.com [DONE ]
- lwn.net [DONE]
- macnn.com [not DONE]
- digg.com [not DONE - start to digg it]
- phoronix.com [not DONE]
- linuxcompatible.org [not DONE]
- developers.slashdot.org [ i feel the wind of karma change]
- lxer.com
- linuxpr.com
- linuxtoday.com
- newsforge.net
- linuxgazette.com
- osdir.com
- databasejournal.com
- devshed.com [on blog & forums ]
- prweb.com
- warp2search [will be done by alex]
- linuxelectrons.com
- pclinuxonline.com [will be done by alex]
- linuxquestions.org
- gnomeDesktop.org
- madpenguin.org
- debcentral.org

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

flamerobin on solaris x86

Tamas TEVESZ announced flamerobin for solaris x86
so, i've got something that may even be tested, if there are any
takers, that is.

tarball is at
http://dawn.dev.hu/~ice/tmp/flr/flamerobin-0.7.5-SunOS5.10-i386.tar.gz
md5 hash de268b6d27ae6ac988cac7df5925733d
screenshot is at
http://dawn.dev.hu/~ice/tmp/flr/flamerobin-on-solaris.png

its a simple tarball; when untarred, `pwd`/flamerobin/flamerobin
should just work. it was compiled on solaris 5.10 i86pc, and (if i
didn't screw it up), needs "only" the following packages from the
solaris media (ie. no thirdparty dependencies):

SUNWTiff SUNWcslr SUNWfontconfig
SUNWfreetype2 SUNWgccruntime SUNWgnome-base-libs
SUNWjpg SUNWlexpt SUNWlibmsr
SUNWmlib SUNWpng SUNWxorg-clientlibs
SUNWxwplt SUNWxwrtl SUNWxwxft
SUNWzlib

(i sorta think anything more than core solaris includes these, at
least most of them).

tarball includes a copy of wx 2.6 and fbclient.so from firebird
2.0rc4, all stripped.

basically, after i gave up on using the workshop compiler, it was
pretty straightforward with gcc (the one bundled with s10);
technically, wx and flamerobin itself (apart from a few trivial
issues) didn't have much problem with workshop, but i horribly failed
at compiling firebird with suncc, and did so many times (as an added
bonus, it seems that linking g++- and CC-compiled objects together is
the perfect recipe for disaster). the problem with that is that as
long as i can't compile firebird with workshop, there isn't any point
(or even way) to do this to flamerobin. does anyone have good
connections at firebird dev? :>

issues prevail, though; for example, asking for database properties
immediately crashes flamerobin. is anyone interested in looking at it?
my c++-debugging skills are next to non-existent. also, if anyone
wants the debug binaries, i'm happy to tar 'em up.


--
[-]

mkdir /nonexistent
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Monday, September 11, 2006

Installing/Building Flamerobin on Ubuntu or Debian

Here is one blog on how to rebuild the flamerobin 0.7.5 package in ubuntu/debian

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Friday, September 08, 2006

FlameRobin on Solaris

Tamas TEVESZ has decided to try to make Flamerobin work on Solaris:

http://dawn.dev.hu/~ice/tmp/flamerobin-on-solaris.png

"there isn't much else to say about it, apart from "don't get too
excited". it literally needs an iron lung, and even then it crashes
on every second click.

getting that far wasn't particularly hard, though. you need to compile
a wx (for the blastwave package does not include wx-contrib, but i'll
get in touch with the maintainer once i get back from my optometrist
in the afternoon), and you need to install a firebird package which
can be gotten from ibphoenix.com; except that don't install it for it
stinks, its ugly, and it won't work properly anyway. it was enough to
get fbclient.so, though.

well, after all that said, it's still in a much better shape than i
hoped. to be continued, but hold your breath do not."


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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

FlameRobin 0.7.5 released

Source and binary packages for Windows (setup.exe and .zip) and Linux (gtk1 and gtk2 variants) are available for download. MacOSX and Debian/Ubuntu ones should follow soon (and probably FreeBSD one too). We are also looking for someone to try if things work on Solaris too.

New features
- System tables now are available in main tree view
- Compatibility with Firebird 2.0
- SQL editor: Autocompletion of column/parameter names and old/new aliases in triggers

Enhancements and Bug fixes
- SQL Editor: Use row:col instead of col:row in statusbar
- SQL Editor: Autocompletion now works for case
- sensitive object names
- SQL Editor: Autocompletion now works for names containing $ character
- Data grid: "Fetch all records" and "Cancel fetching all records" commands
- Data grid: "Copy records as Update" command
- SQL script execution now always stops on error
- Confirm dropping of items from main tree
- Fixed bugs related to character set conversions
- Fixed DDL extraction for various object types

Download at : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124340
For known issues please see our bug tracker at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=124340&atid=699234


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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Firebird, Flamerobin are included in archlinux

[Here are the details (link bellow) , you can read more about archlinux on distrowatch.org]

Read more at aur.archlinux.org/index...

Monday, August 28, 2006

Firebird 'unofficial' FULL setup for Windows

Project page www.parmaja.com/projects/firebirdsetup/ or directly download here.

Includes:

Full InnoSetup script inlcuded so you can rebuild the setup again
with your options.

..:: FlameRobin ::..:: Firebird ::..

Friday, August 25, 2006

Flamerobin 0.7.5 soon

If everything goes according to plans, we'll have Flamerobin 0.7.5 on 1st of September. So keep an eye on the website and this blog for news.

..:: FlameRobin ::..:: Firebird ::..

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Debian Weekly News - August 22nd, 2006

[New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently or contain important updates. * flamerobin — Graphical database administration tool for Firebird DBMS.]

Read more at www.debian.org/News/wee...

Monday, August 21, 2006

pabloj's blog » Flamerobin as a GUI for embedded Firebird - Howto

[In general you just need to have Flamerobin connect to Embedded Firebird through local protocol, my setup with Firebird 1.5.3 is like this]

Read more at www.firebirdnews.org/?p...

Firebird News » FlameRobin enters Debian/unstable

[Finally, flamerobin 0.7.2 entered Debian/unstable., Alex can you update the website ?]

Read more at www.firebirdnews.org/?p...

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Google Code - Project Name Conflict

[nice feature for google code hosting , if your oss project already exists on the sf.net then they give you an warning about it ]

The project name that you entered conflicts with one that is reserved. [flamerobin in our case]

The most common reason for a project name to be reserved is that it is already being used on another open source project hosting site. Having a different project with the same name could be confusing to user and detrimental to the existing project.Sometimes when two developers think of the same name, it is because they have the same goal in mind. You might want to familiarize yourself with the existing project, and consider whether it would be better to work with them rather than create a potentially similar project of your own.

Read more at code.google.com/hosting...

Monday, July 24, 2006

Installer Flamerobin sous Ubuntu Dapper

Text is in French:

http://www.lordphoenix.info/ubuntu/installer-flamerobin-sous-ubuntu-dapper

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

flamerobin 0.7.2 - time to spread the word

- sf.net news area [not DONE]
- softpedia [1/3 done linux version is updated -last time was Done by milan]
- freshmeat.net [DONE]
- betanews.net [DONE]
- gnomefiles.com [not DONE]
- lwn.net [DONE]
- macnn.com [not DONE]
- digg.com [not DONE - start to digg it]
- phoronix.com [not DONE]
- linuxcompatible.org [not DONE]
- developers.slashdot.org [ i feel the wind of karma change]
- lxer.com
- linuxpr.com
- linuxtoday.com
- newsforge.net
- linuxgazette.com
- osdir.com
- databasejournal.com
- devshed.com [on blog & forums ]
- prweb.com
- warp2search [will be done by alex]
- linuxelectrons.com
- pclinuxonline.com [will be done by alex]
- linuxquestions.org
- gnomeDesktop.org
- madpenguin.org
- debcentral.org

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