Guus Bosman

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Actuate & BIRT

BIRT designer.This morning I attended a roadshow by Actuate, the company that created the open source project BIRT. I recently introduced BIRT in one of my products, and I'm very happy with that decision.

The roadshow was in Plainsboro near Princeton and about 40 minutes away from our place. Most of the presentations during weren't very informative -- 'they had a low information density', as one of my friends would put it. I always wonder, am I the only one who feels that things could be told 5 times faster?

The part I liked were the short 3 minute demo's. While my product uses BIRT mainly to generate PDFs and other files, BIRT could be used for dashboard functionality as well. Apparently you can hook in your own Flash library to it, which is nice because we use FusionCharts already.

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"Apparently you can hook in your own Flash library to it"

i like flash a lot, but with the comming of html5 and all the fuzz with apple banning flash and microsoft and opera not liking it either, be prepared to switch to html5/canvas stuff in the future :)

Definitely! A little while ago I saw this demo http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/04/html5-quake-ii.html, very cool.

yeah, saw that too, playing here with webgl a bit really nice to get hardware acceleration that flash does not really provide

What are you using this for? Video? Game?

games offcourse! :D
but the downside is that it requires opengl 2.1 which is not supported on all graphics cards, especially the older ones and that its not included in any live browser yet, opposed to the canvas 2d context (which video uses i think)

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