I believe it's just called "The Firebird Book" by Helen Borrie, and as far as I have been able to find out without actually seeing it, it is considered "The" Bible for Firebird. I believe also that I saw it advertised on one of the FireBird sites I've visited recently. Either DotNet.com or IBExperts. I would have tried to buy it via amazon.com already if I were able to find out just two things. First, how dated it might be as there have been several updates to Firebird since it was published, or if a web site is provided for updating information found in it, and how useful it would be to a complete novice! It's been my often sad experience to purchase a programming book via the internet on a topic I need or wish to learn based upon it's advertised synopsis, only to be frustrated by it not providing basic and necessary information needed by the beginner. So now I try very hard to get a good idea of a books contents before I make a purchase.
from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006 Proud to be a moderator of "The Delphi Lists" at elists.org (["An unused program is the consequence of a higher logic!", nil]) As written in The Compendium of Accepted Robotic and Surrlogic Theorems Used in the Self Analysis of Elemental Positronic Pathways...1st Edition Revised -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Cooper Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:36 PM To: delphi-db@elists.org Subject: RE: To Helen or any Firebird pros What book is that? It sounds well worth getting. I used to use InterBase, and haven't had a need yet to go with FireBird, but it sounds like a great DB for the right applications. A good book on it would be great to have. Rich Cooper, CTO MetaSemantics Corporation ------Original Mail------ From: "Ron Huppert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Moderated discussion list about database programming with Borland's Delphi'" <delphi-db@elists.org> Sent: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:38:47 -0800 Subject: RE: To Helen or any Firebird pros Robert, I appreciate that you take the time to moderate this forum and that you have experienced frustrations with the process of getting answers to your many questions. I have been reluctant to respond to this thread, but I think you owe Helen Borrie an apology. You are angry that she did not read all your post(s), but who has that much time? You could be much more succinct. I've purchased Helen Borrie's book. I suppose she is making a fast buck, but only in astronomical terms. This book could only be created as a labor of love. She deserves getting paid and she deserves getting kudos from the Delphi and Firebird community and beyond for a well-constructed book that I am sure took years to compile. I don't even use Firebird and I've learned much from it. I guess I'll leave it at that as I must get back to selling my Chinchilla farm franchises. Regards, Ron Huppert _______________________________________________ Delphi-DB mailing list Delphi-DB@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-db _______________________________________________ Delphi-DB mailing list Delphi-DB@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-db _______________________________________________ Delphi-DB mailing list Delphi-DB@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-db
