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"tag:reporting"
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Classic-Engine 0.8.10 and beyond
This weekend, we finally released Version 0.8.10 of the Pentaho Reporting Classic Engine. This release is yet another infrastructure release (yes, sounds boring) that prepares the ground for going to 1.0. Aside from the already covered Unified Fileformat ... |
03-Jun-2008 14:33:00 |
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The total brain-dump
Extract the brains of all reporting and charting developers, put them in a large blender, turn it on, wait, turn the blender off, and fill the brains back into their original containers to extract the new ideas. Repeat this process as often as needed. ... |
21-Apr-2008 07:10:00 |
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Resurrection: The Wizard is back
"It was horrible!" a witness told our reporter at the place of the incident. "We thought we were safe now, after the trial and so on. And now that! How should we feel safe now, knowing that this monster runs free again?" On Friday, ... |
24-Mar-2008 14:47:00 |
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Switft Justice - 30 silver coins well invested ..
With the introduction of the new ODF-based file-format in Version 0.8.10 of the Reporting-Engine, the Simple-XML file-format and the Extended-XML file-format will be deprecated now. The reporting engine will still be able to understand these ... |
21-Mar-2008 11:06:37 |
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Wanted: Report Design Wizard
The report-design-wizard has been sentenced to dead for unclean and undirected growth. Over last three years it threatened innocent users with a undocumented and unclean definition language that depended on several XML-hacks and a implementation of ... |
20-Mar-2008 12:54:00 |
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Converting Paintings into Tables
In Pentaho Reporting Classic, all Report-Elements are positioned somewhere on a canvas. Whenever an band is being printed, the layouting system jumps in an computes the final layout for the band and all child elements. After the layouting is complete,... |
19-Mar-2007 21:19:00 |
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A zoology of layouting systems
Reporting is easy, but layouting is hell. In the field of reporting, there are three major output systems: 1. Painting The generated output is placed freely on a canvas. The whole content generation is graphical, the result has to be a good looking r... |
15-Mar-2007 20:02:00 |
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Eat your own dog-food
One of the most effective ways to force developers to create sane code and usable programms, is to force them to use the results of their own work by themselves. Almost immediatly non-critital but very annoying bugs get fixed and at least the UI gets ... |
07-Mar-2007 10:17:00 |