7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• Deployed cpPlusDate and mvPlusDate, which are working just fine
• Made backups
• Talked to John W. He’s going to try to set a demo of PPM with Kathy and the new TD for early next week.
• Chris(tine) has finished Flex in a Week. She sent me a not asking what to look at next. I said to look through AirFilImageApp to get aquainted with a larger project, and start to get familiar with Maven and the flex-mojos. Once she’s done with that, she can start updating MavenAssist to build Air apps correctly.
• Digging into FlexXB
  • General description: http://code.google.com/p/flexxb/wiki/GeneralDescription
  • No luck. FlexXB doesn’t recurse down the tree. Moving on…
• Worked with Dong on getting a new version of PPM to play with the browser window a bit better
• Since I really don’t want to build a generic serializer (again!). I’m thinking about the components that all our applications seem to need. The thought is that maybe we build some higher-level components that have self-serializing functionality that can be put together in simpler ways than a straight mxml experience. My list of visual components so far is:
  • Login
  • DB Table/column browser
  • Charts
    • The regular, data, bar, column, pie
    • Unusual – maps, status, network
  • Data grids
    • for looking at tables of numbers or…
    • Excel-style spreadsheets
  • Data entry forms
  • Formatted output
  • Special widgets, such as speedometer-style displays
• To make this work we need a communication framework to the server that either simply (or automatically) sets up tables to talk to these forms.
• Lastly, there needs to be an authoring/administrative level that creates ids for applications (to aid with data partitioning), and that supports our scripting.