For Informix Fanatics and developers my friend Jean Georges Perrin invites you to Developer Forum 2012/Informix Tech Day as a joined event.

The workshop takes place in Strasbourg (France) on May, the 25 from 08:30h to 23:30h :-)

Registration thru Facebook: DeveloperForum / InformixTechDay 2012

Here is the invitation text from Jean Georges:

Come to our free (and independent) conference around Informix Technologies. 

Date: May 18, 2011
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Central Time)
Presented By: Jerry Keesee (IBM), Steve Trosi (IBM)
Title: LIVE from IIUG Conference Kansas City

Here you can register for the event...

Description:

 
Join us LIVE at the International Informix Users Group 4th Annual Conference 
to hear Jerry Keesee's Keynote Address. Jerry Keesee, Director of Informix 
Database Development, leads the Informix database portfolio software 

• Date: Thursday, April the 21th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 16:30 London, 17:30 Berlin/Paris
• Title: IBM Informix Genero
• Speaker: Shawn Moe - Technical Product Manager, Informix Application Development Tools and Technology (IBM)

You can register for the Informix webcast here

The following request comes from the IBM Informix product management team. Please help IBM by taking the survey.

Thank you !

The Informix product management team would like to get feedback about your 
database managing, monitoring, tuning, and modelling needs as well as the 
tools you use to perform these activities. 

We are collecting your feedback through an informal survey which should take 
less than 10 minutes to complete. Your feedback will help guide our Informix 
database development and management tools strategy. Let your voice be heard 

• Date: Thursday, March the 17th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 16:30 London, 17:30 Berlin/Paris
• Title: Upgrading to Informix 11.7
• Speaker: William Wheeler (IBM)

You can register for the Informix webcast here

• Date: Tuesday, February the 15th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 16:30 London, 17:30 Berlin/Paris
• Title: Enhanced Application Development with Informix 11.7
• Speaker: Jacques Roy (IBM)

You can register for the Informix webcast here

There have been a bunch of new articles covering Informix 11.70 features published on IBM developwerWorks. If you haven't read them yet, here they are:

• Get started with the IBM Data Server CLI Driver for Informix
• Upgrade Informix high availability clusters online

Draft Version: IBM Redbook - IBM Informix Developer's Handbook

A new IBM Redbook is currently under development:

• IBM Informix Developer's Handbook

If you have a good knowledge of programming languages in conjunction with Informix and you would like to share your knowledge with others in order to help them getting started with Informix Application Development then you might take a look at this IBM Residency offer:

• Residency Details: Migrating from SQL Server to IBM Informix Dynamic Server

Reminder

This could be an interesting event for all of us who are interested in Cloud Computing. Good to see that IDS is part of this joined IBM/Amazon event. IDS with it's small footprint, great scalability and unmatched high availability architecture is probably the best suited commercial database for Cloud Computing:

Join us at this cloud computing virtual workshop for developers, professors, 

Open Source Web Application Frameworks like PHP Cake, Ruby on Rails, Python Django or Perl Catalyst are becoming more and more popular among web developers. Even in the enterprise world, that is dominated by Java, those frameworks are gaining ground as they combine the simpleness and power of a scripting language with a strong development framework.

Wiki Change History Page

The IDS Developer Edition Wiki has a new Change History page:

http://informix-zone.com/idswiki/doku.php/change_history

This page tracks all changes to the Wiki, so you can see which articles have been added or udpated. If you've an IDS sweet spot and wish to write a Wiki article about it, just drop me an email and I will create an account for you. Especially I'm seeking for articles in the following areas:

The IDS Developer Edition Wiki

The Informix Zone is happy to present the IDS Developer Edition Wiki.

The intent of the Wiki is to provide useful information around IBM's brand new INFORMIX offering. The Wiki covers areas like installing, configuring and developing with the free IDS Developer Edition. Hopefully more and more application developers discover the power, easiness and efficiency of the wonderful INFORMIX technology.

Free IDS Developer Version - A nightmare for other data servers ?

Update 2007-11-07 - Ready for Download

As Fernando Nunes announced in his blog, the new IDS Developer Edition is now available. You can download it from the following URL:

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?go=y&rs=ifxids

I am pleased to announce a new release of InformixDB, the Python module for developing Informix applications in Python. Changes since the last release include:

• Compatibility with CSDK 3.00
• Ability to manually interrupt or automatically time out SQL execution
• Proper binding of boolean parameters in WHERE clauses
• Make version information about server and client available
• Various bug fixes

Download and more information on SourceForge.

The IBM Informix CSDK 3.00 (for .NET provider) Beta Program will run until 02/28/2007

The IBM Informix Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK) offers a single packaging of several application programming interfaces (APIs) that are optimized for developing applications for Informix servers. IBM Informix CSDK 3.00 (for .NET provider ) contains new features in the following areas:

• IDS .NET Data Provider support for the .NET Framework 2.0
• IBM Database Add-Ins for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

The .NET Data Provider extends Informix server support for the ADO.NET interface. The .NET Data Provider delivers high-performing, secure access to Informix data. To develop and run applications that use .NET Data Provider you need the .NET Framework, Version 2.0 or 1.1.