The winner of the DevShare Contributor of the Month Contest for December 2009 is John Ward for his contribution to BIRT Exchange titled: Working with Extension Points: Aggregations.
John said, “The article is written as first in a series of article discussing how to work with BIRTs extension points. I am trying to get the word out that BIRT is capable of doing so much more than what it does out of the box, and one of the keys to BIRTs flexibility are these extension points. I figured the best starting place would be with either the Aggregations or the User Script Libraries. As I hadn’t worked with the new extension model in BIRT 2.3+, I decided to start there.”
John is a BIRT consultant at Innovent Solutions, and the author of Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT. He has been working with BIRT since the beta phase in 2004/2005. He currently focuses on helping clients integrate BIRT into their applications and optimize report designs.
John chose a black iPod Shuffle for his award.
The monthly DevShare contest rules and list of previous winners can be found here.
