Sen. Patrick Leahy:
“There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination,” Leahy, an Obama supporter, said in an interview with Vermont Public Radio this morning. “She ought to withdraw, and she ought to be backing Sen. Obama.”
From the LA Times web site.
JasperReports (see http://www.jasperforge.org) is an open-source, Java-based reporting platform. I’m here to tell you that it deserves some serious consideration.
At one of my companies, we’ve been looking for a reporting mechanism for our PHP/MySQL application for some time now. Crystal Reports was not an option, since it doesn’t run on our server platform (Mac OS X) and its licensing costs are prohibitively expensive. Plus, we really wanted to stay all open-source.
JasperReports has a front-end report designer, iReport, which is also Java-based and runs nicely on both Windows and Mac. It’s similar to the Crystal client, although much more light weight. iReport creates report files in XML, which are then compiled into a binary format for use by the reporting server. The server itself is a java web application which fills the report from the datasource and creates the output, which can be HTML, XML, CSV, Excel, PDF, ODT or even Flash. There is also a viewer applet which can be embedded in a web page for inline viewing, printing or export.
In order to use the JasperReports framework, because our application is based on PHP, we had to implement the PHP-Java bridge. We chose Tomcat as the Java application server, again because it is lightweight, open and well-supported and runs nicely on the Mac. This all works out quite nicely.
My next personal goal is to figure out how to integrate JasperReports into a .NET environment.
Cheney: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has worked. That’s been a major success.
Raddatz: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.
Cheney: So?
Raddatz: So? You don’t care what the American people think?
Cheney: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
Interview on ABC’s Good Morning America with White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, 3/24/2008.
“The Bush tax cuts give those who earn over a million dollars a tax cut that is nearly 160 times greater than that received by middle-income Americans. At the same time, this administration has refused to tackle health care, education and housing in a manner that benefits the middle class. This year alone, the average person in the wealthiest 1 percent will receive more than $55,000 from the Bush tax cuts, while the average person in the bottom 20 percent will get about $70.”
Obama for America: Keeping America’s Promise
Note: from what I can tell, Obama is probably close to being right about this. See below.
Today I received an e-mail from T, informing me that they have received me interview notice. It will be on Friday, May 30th at 9:30 am. Expect more details to follow.