Firebird was bad to me today.

A very useful Firebird driver for performing most CRUD database operations in PHP.

We all know we can store dates or timestamps in Firebird in the following formats : ’06/25/2007’, ‘June 25, 2007’, ’6,25,2007’, ’25,jun,2007’, etc. But what happens when we want to store DD/MM/YY into Firebird?.

The Rails framework has been improving a lot since version 0.18, and just as I started using Rails for a new project, I gladly found out it works out of the box!.

One of the main reasons I like Firebird is the support for stored procedures. When you are serious in software development they play an importan part in the process. And now type casting comes to the rescue!.