Monthly Archives: June 2012

Phil 5.6.12

8:00 – 4:30 FP

  • More Blender.
  • Nice video tutorials: http://super3.org/blender25
  • Making reasonable progress. Between the videos and the books, this mostly makes sense.
  • Got multiple extrusions, subsurface sampling and swept surfaces working. Tomorrow I may be able to put together a mouse file after the meetings.

Tom 6.5.2012

Start 10:00

  • Continued to plot the nets for the auto-router
  • Tested in the sandbox to see if the auto-router will adjust for new nets.  It does
  • I had the connectors a backwards on the board.  fixed this
  • Double checked the d-sub connectors to make sure the leads were set up right

End 6:00

 

Mike 6.5.2012

  • Server backups at site
  • Deployed new version of PPM and PA with updates fields: Funding Type, Location, and Org.
  • Version also includes the auto-login capability but it is turned off for now to avoid issues
  • The email to all users went out today to test their connection.  At noon only one person replied and they could connect just fine
  • Found an error with the user management widget, Dong created a fix and I burned it to disc for tomorrow
  • Continued working on new slides to the presentation on Friday
  • Answered lots of questions at site as they came up, lots more interaction at my new desk

Dong Shin 06.05.2012

  • checked in fresh copy of ProjPortfolioMgrClient to SVN and moved ProjPortfolioMgrClient to old
  • deployed new PPM and PA at the Fort. new fields seem working
  • User Management errors – Database Null?
    • fixed
  • Delete User errors – fixed
    • DBUpdateSQLs06052012.sql in src/main/resources/database directory
    • caused by cascading foreign keys… this fixes it
      • ALTER TABLE `projects` DROP FOREIGN KEY `projects_ibfk_3` ;
        ALTER TABLE `projects` ADD FOREIGN KEY ( `proj_mgr_login` ) REFERENCES `project_portfolio`.`users` (        `login`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE ;ALTER TABLE `projects` DROP FOREIGN KEY `projects_ibfk_2` ;
        ALTER TABLE `projects` ADD FOREIGN KEY ( `proj_admin_login` ) REFERENCES `project_portfolio`.`users` (`login`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE ;ALTER TABLE `projects` DROP FOREIGN KEY `projects_ibfk_1` ;
        ALTER TABLE `projects` ADD FOREIGN KEY ( `portfolio_mgr_login` ) REFERENCES `project_portfolio`.`users` (`login`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE ;ALTER TABLE `projects` DROP FOREIGN KEY `projects_ibfk_4` ;
        ALTER TABLE `projects` ADD FOREIGN KEY ( `portfolio_admin_login` ) REFERENCES `project_portfolio`.`users` (`login`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE ; 

Tom DeVito 6.5.2012

Start: 12:30

  • Fixed the mounting locations to be in line with the measurements taken Friday
  • Added two more connectors to the board.  One for connecting the analog inputs, the other for connecting the LEDs.
  • Added the circuit for the I2C bus.
  • Connected the nets for the new connectors.

End 6:30

Mike 6.4.2012

  • Relocated to new site desk
  • Connected to server just fine and did the regular backups
  • Submitted Dong’s VR
  • Played around more with the COGNOS data in prep for demo on Friday
  • Back at the mill, rebuilt the entire vis tool suite, did some minimal compatibility testing
  • Burned everything to disk for deployment
  • Investigated an issue with trending data in the visualization after using a GROUP BY statement in the advanced query window.  There’s a problem with our string parsing that screws up there WHERE clause

Dong Shin 06.04.2012

  • tested new PPM and PA on FGMDEV, seems fine.
    • database updates – DBUpdatesSQLs05242012.sql
    • saved old – ProjPortfolioMgr_06042012 and project_portfolio_06042012
  • found ProjectAssistant gets confused with endpoint after AutoLogin changes – fixed

Phil 10.4.12

8:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Cleaning up and packing the project and hardware for move.
  • Got a new GWT in Action. and let Dong and Mike know about it
  • Hmm. There’s a thing called Restlets. Looking into that.
  • Started a throttler for the sound JSON writer.
  • Looks like I start AMPERE on the 11th. Reserved a truck for the 7th-8th. Penske reservation number is 30588476. (06/07/2012 at 8:00 AM, 8685 Washington Blvd, Penske Baltimore, Jessup, MD 20794)

Tom 6.4.2012

Start: 10:00

  • Decided to use standard pin headers for the where the ribbon cable attaches to the board.
  • Started building the nets for the auto routing
  • Talked to Phil about the uncertain future of the project.
  • Added more mounting holes
  • Double checked all measurements.

End: 6:00

Mike 6.1.2012

  • Test server backups
  • Apparently my desk has been given away to someone else so I’m moving to a temporary desk starting Monday, hopefully I can still reach the server.  Moved everything that was on the local drive to the network drive for transfer
  • Sent out the VIS Tool weekly status report
  • Spoke with Jessica R.
    • She wanted to know how to create users and assign roles
    • She will also be rolling my weekly status reports in to the larger group weeklies
    • Also discussed my new desk and got my door access to the office, no more ringing the bell
    • Bill and Jessica both want to bring Phil on to implement the official test plan and offered to find some funding
  • We’re getting ‘Out of Connections’ Mysql errors on the PPM service.  I bounced the server and got rid of them but the problem needs to be solved soon.
  • Talked to Phil about coming on to write the test plan, sent and email to Jim asking how to proceed
  • Collecting statuses from Kristi and Dong to submit to TASC for the month of May
  • Talked to Kristi about getting documentation for PPM deployed at site
  • Sent an email to Dong about the ‘out of connections’ error
  • Going to start work on a java-based AMF client that will stress test the PPM back-end.  I will probably only write 1 method (log in) and hopefully hand it off to Dong.

Mike 5.31.2012

  • Test server backups at site
  • Stopped by the customer office and spoke to Jessica R., Bill D., and Tangela H.
    • Jessica had lots of questions about creating accounts, timelines, and when the reports would be ready
    • Tangie was having difficulty making projects with subprojects and wants to have 1 MIPR span multiple projects…
    • Bill is working on getting the production server going
  • Sent out the connection test and troubleshooting document, it will be emailed out to all users tomorrow
  • More charting stuff

Tom 5.31.2012

Start: 10:00

  • Deleted stray traces and  and cleaned up the postions of
  • Transposed amp circuit to be able to be mounted on the back of the board
  • Phil decided we don’t need the amps after all to control volume
  • Finished and saved the amp circuits just in case before removing them
  • Played with teh auto route tool.  It works great

End: 6:00