Flamerobin in the Ubuntu Software Center (web link)

Here is the web link in case you want to install it in Ubuntu :)

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/flamerobin/

Flamerobin sf.net logo impressions

You can check the sf.net logo impression from the beginning of the project until now http://sourceforge.net/projects/flamerobin/stats/traffic?dates=2004-12-01%20to%202012-04-22
It's interesting to watch the spike from December (last year) 400k visits

Changes in FlameRobin 0.9.4 ALPHA

I have updated the icewalkers page for flamerobin And saw that Milan has updated the changelog for the next release Here are some documented changes

Flamerobin 0.9.3~svn+2216 is now uploaded to ppa for ubuntu oneiric

The package is now in ubuntu oneiric ppa

To install it use

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapopa/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flamerobin

or if you have already installed


sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

New upstream SVN snapshot in debian (0.9.3~svn+2216-1) and will use larger icon in gnome 3

Here is the changelog 

* New upstream SVN snapshot
 
* Install larger icon to pixmaps/ for nicer gnome3 (at least) experience

Another cool stuff is that Clone registration info is added in the menu (if you inspect the git changelog)

flamerobin_0.9.3~svn+2212 is now in debian sid

The version 0.9.3 - revision 2212 is now in published in debian sid

flamerobin_0.9.3~svn+2212 is now uploaded to ppa for ubuntu oneiric

The package is now in ubuntu oneiric ppa

To install it use

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapopa/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flamerobin

or if you have already installed


sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Feedback from users

It completely replaced IBOConsole for me.

IBOConsole has no 64 bit support and can only run in Windows.

FlameRobin on the other hand has 64 bit support and runs in many OSes.

I've been following the progress of this project since 2005 (version 0.2.0).

Back then it looked very nice and very promising but it wasn't "there" yet.

Now, it IS "there". Maybe the developers should change the version to 1.0 to celebrate it

Flamerobin New snapshot 0.9.3.2210.* builds

New snapshot builds (SVN revision 2210) for Windows 32 and 64 bits are
available on SF.net.

Feedback on field and text delimiter settings for save grid data as CSV
file command would be especially welcome.

Thanks

--
Michael Hieke

Trying to insert more that 350MB blob (from file to firebird) ? use #FlameRobin

Via Jiri Cincura tweet we find that works ok to insert more that 350MB blobs with flamerobin

Trying to insert ~350MB blob (from file) using #FlameRobin. Hope it's not going to fail.

and then later

It went absolutely fine. I was pleased.

flamerobin-devel archive is now on new nabble

You can read the threads and react/post quickly to flamerobin-devel mailing list from a better interface

http://flamerobin.2305948.n4.nabble.com/

Quicken home inventory for windows 7 64 bit

What's has this got to do with FlameRobin, you might ask. Well, as few customers of mine wanted to be able to look into their home inventory database with FlameRobin. They are using a program called Quicken Home Inventory which was really popular back in a day. Now they moved to Windows 7 and other 64 bit operating systems (even Linux) and they were left in the dark. This is also a nice story of Microsoft SQL server users converting to Firebird, even if they don't know it.

My program Attic Manager uses Firebird database as backend. This means that it can run on Windows, Linux, 32 or 64bit and still have a very small footprint of only 3MB of download. The main obstacle was ability to import QHIM data into Attic database. I thought about ODBC but gave up soon. Microsoft .NET is much easier and I wrote a nice little extractor program that dumps data from MS SQL Server to text files, and Attic Manager loads that in turn.

And one can even browse data in FlameRobin, which is of course, free.

Statement history dialog layout

In the past week or so I have improved our statement history dialog to allow easier browsing. Now it shows the statements on the left and when you click them, you get the whole sql on the right. This makes it easier to inspect the statements and find what you looking for. Especially if you have a large monitor. Also, the searched term is marked with red color. I also added the timestamp of the history file. Functionality is now good, however, now I'm not sure about this layout. What do you think? (screenshot attached) -- Milan Babuskov

Suggestion: copy as in-list implemented

Kjell Rilbe asked if such a feature can be added and Millan already added it in the copy menu 

Manage your TurboCASH databases with FlameRobin

The FlameRobin Database Admin Software is used to manage your TurboCASH 4 databases (Sets of Books). The FlameRobin software is used to browse, check and edit data
Read more on Turbocash Wiki

#flamerobin Tweet of the day Very lightweight and easy to handle.

Translation of the tweet:

"Flamerobin admin #firebird database. Very lightweight and easy to handle. good megusta"

Or in Spanish:

Flamerobin database admin #firebird. Muy ligero y facil de manejar. #megusta #good

Installation guide for Flamerobin 0.9.3 - r2100 Snapshot binary on #Ubuntu 10.10 or in Natty

Download the binary for your platform from debian repository
uname -m
in my case is x64 (aka amd64, intel 64, x86-64) Usually if you double click gdebi will do the
work bellow for you (graphic installer)


wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/flamerobin/flamerobin_0.9.3~svn+2100-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i flamerobin_0.9.3~svn+2100-1_amd64.deb

From system menu (in my case Lubuntu Natty ) Programming -> Flamerobin

or you can start it from the console
flamerobin&

New Flamerobin snapshot in #debian unstable

The main change is that now it requires firebird2.5-dev instead of firebird3.0 headers and decided that is better to  have a flamerobin 0.9.3 in the distros released for the next 1-2 years with a stable firebird 2.5.x and add firebird 3.0 requirement when is ready and stable ~1-2 years
Changelog:
* New upstream SVN snapshot : revision 2100
* Uploaded to unstable
* Stop using system-wide ibase.h.Unstable has no fb3.0 so system-wide ibase.h has no boolean defines,which are used by FR and were ported to IBPP's embedded copy of ibase.h
* build-depend on firebird2.5-dev instead of firebird-dev(firebird-dev is only in experimental)

You can download and install the package directly from debian sid (tested and works on ubuntu natty too )
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin

Flamerobin 0.9.3 svn new revision pushed to Debian experimental

new version for flamerobin 0.9.3 is now in Debian experimental for testing
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/flamerobin

I have installed debian unstable sid and i have added in

/etc/apt/sources.list

these lines

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main

and install flamerobin

$ su
# apt-get update -t experimental
# apt-get install -t experimental flamerobin

maybe you need an firebird 2.5 super or classic

apt-get install -t experimental firebird2.5-classic

if you want to build the latest version on any ubuntu/debian distribution i have wrote some notes in the wiki here
http://flamerobin.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:howtobuildonubuntudebian
I guess it's easy to create a binary tar.gz/bz2 snapshot
also i will try to put the package into a ppa



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

#Flamerobin 0.9.3 Snapshot 2092 is already in #Debian experimental

Flamerobin 0.9.3 Snapshot 2092 is ready in Debian experimental repository
Here is the guide to install it from repository , you can also download the binary package only if you are on sid