Generating reports is a common, if not always glamorous, task for programmers. In the past, report generation has largely been the domain of large commercial products such as Crystal Reports. Today, ...

In the Big Data world, we're used to accepting compromises and arbitrary limitations. For example, accepting the benefits of Hadoop means working with the Hadoop Distributed File System, its ...

Producing professional reports on-demand from a back-end database, especially one connected to a Web application, remains one of the sticky wickets in Web development. Commercial products are few and ...