Brent Rowland

In github.com/rowland/go-fb, I made timezone one of the database parameters. From the timezone, I got a time.Location using time.LoadLocation. The location became an attribute of the connection, allowing me to...

Related: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/2069#issuecomment-665811812

If I'm reading the sidekiq code correctly, retry_count is indeed the current count. Sidekiq allows the retry value to be either a boolean or an integer. go-workers accepts either boolean...

I've written PDF libraries in Delphi, Ruby and Go, but I've never cracked the most difficult languages to support, such as Chinese. My immediate goal in Crystal is to bind...

Are you using parameterized statements? Using the UTF-8 charset (or UNICODE_FSS) can cause the implementation to allocate 3 bytes per character, which can surprise you if Firebird thinks it's dealing...

Nobody has stepped forward to add support for Rails 5.x. My shop is migrating to Postgres, so I'll be looking for a new maintainer.

Certainly. Just as soon as I recall how to do that again... > On Jun 19, 2018, at 10:14, Popa Marius Adrian wrote: > > @rowland Could you add me...

@funny-falcon I wasn't planning a blog post. When we first selected Interbase, eons ago, it was a little ahead of Postgres for the applications and platforms my shop was targeting....

@mariuz You've been added as an owner alongside @rzane, who kindly contributed the Rails 4 updates.

The architecture of your Ruby interpreter and your Firebird library must agree. If you are successful connecting from an x86 Ruby, then your fbclient.dll must also be for x86. In...