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Hauled in a new client last week and they're using Crystal Reports.
Needless to say, I'm not to happy about that.
Luckily, he only has a few reports and he's willing to switch if I come up with a good alternative.
The problem is, I don't have any.
Looking for lists of alternatives gives me stuff like Power BI, Tableau and Qlick, which are BI tools and not report generators.
What I need is a report designer that my client can use to create or modify some reports.
I need stuff like invoices and packing slips, one or two A4 pages.
Preferably something that also works in the cloud (not the editor, but generating the reports from code).
I've seen DevExpress, but I can't really figure out if they have a stand-alone report editor.
And because it comes with lots of components, it's quite expensive (the customer, not I, will be paying for the license).
Also looking at List & Label, which looks promising.
Any experiences with these tools, or other recommendations?
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a perilous trek under the COM surface by desperate visionaries seeking mates, sticky tentacles, global warming: [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Phenomenal current is reliable! (10)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 597 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 597 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lack of options turned out good for me! 
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Wordle 597 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 597 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
That starter word was excellent - and the second guess gave me just one option I could think of!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 597 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Starters ftw!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Should've used my strange method 
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Wordle 597 6/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Yeah, almost
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Wordle 597 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 597 6/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Hard one!
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Hailing taxis.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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good one 
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Not a good one.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Quote: ... ChatGPT ... Since January, the service’s user base has jumped to over 100 million people. AI is seeping into nearly every industry, from student book reports to government legislation to journalism. I would try to assure you that this article was written by a human, but that’s exactly what the AI would say.
from a Wired newsletter, today.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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- AIs never make misteaks.
- Nothing under their supervision ever goes wrong... wrong... wrong...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Please try this[^] problem and post your answer. Today it gave answer as 96. Correct answer is 384. Need to see how much time it takes to learn the correct answer.
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Okay, but first I want Chat*** to tell me how the Babylonians/Egyptians figured out the sothic cycle (Sirius) [^] thousands of years before modern scientists had the tools to calculate it.
scholarly article on ancient use of sothic cycle (free, pdf): [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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#Worldle #380 3/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬆️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Should have gone with first guess
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I basically want to scrape out the text part of a webpage, leaving all the frilly stuff - including login screens - out. And what I don't want is to have an app that just opens up the HTML as a text file like Notepad. I have also tried using OpenOffice Writer, and once it worked, putting the text at the bottom, but every subsequent time it just crashed.
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