New job, new workflow. I finally figured out how to get my date snippets to work on Windows.
Letting someone else fail first
I've been trying to expand my Python skills and recently ran into a problem with mixing string and Unicode text together. After some searching I found my answers from Maurizio Sambati, creating of the Octopress Pelican theme.
In order to help beginners avoid a few of them and understand most …
Gracefully trimming fields in BIRT
There are times when report requirements can put a report writer in a box. For example, a recent request came in with the following requirements:
- Portrait orientation
- No text wrapping
- Include workorder.wonum, workorder.description, workorder.worktype, workorder.status, workorder.statusdate, sum(wplabor.regularhrs)
Oops. No text wrapping and the …
