8:00 – 4:30 SR

• Fixed most of the issues with the dynamic chart presentation. Committed isn’t carrying over, and the generalized solution to partial FY needs to be implemented for all months.
• Trying to wrap all the pieces of JS inheritance into one call. Looking at this for the moment…
• Had an idea about using Turk for generalized GUI testing using an Angular directive framework (it’ll need lots of OO!) and database io like what I did for iRevTurk.
• Need to fix promises in my server code.
• Timesheets…

10:00 – 4:30 SR

• Morning doctor appt.
• Mostly fixed the dynamic chart script. 2014_OM_ISRPMO isn’t getting any data though.
• Deployed the new version of the Runding Request app but couldn’t get login to work.
• Working on integrating ace/ui-ace into, well, everything.
• Got the ui-ace editor roughtly integrated into scatterplot. The editor doesn’t have any programmatic configuration/data yet, but that can be added to the  mc.paneldata object.
• And that’s it for the week. I’m off presenting at TEI 2015 for the rest of the week.

8:00 – 5:30 SR

• ran the dynamic_charts script and then reset the last_run time to 1:00am. Now it should run when folks are not around.
• Going to try changing the scatterplot test controller to run in a new module that references the scatterplot directive module. That worked just fine.
• Added an appMap object to GlobalUtils. All objects are created as attributes of globalutils.appMap. to keep things clean in the function, it’s recommended to pass the values of appMap into the wrapping function:

(function(angular, scatterplot) {
    "use strict";
    angular.module('scatterApp', ['ngAnimate', 'ngSanitize', 'monospaced.mousewheel'])
        .directive('stagePlanes', [scatterplot.stagePlanesPtr])
        .directive('interactive3D', [scatterplot.interactive3dPtr])
        .directive('floatingPanelManager', [scatterplot.floatingPanelManagerPtr])
        .directive('floatingPanel', ['$sce', scatterplot.floatingPanelPtr]);
})(angular, globalUtils.appMap.scatterplotDirectives);

• Something to look into: RequireJS. It’s got asynchronous loading of namespaced JavaScript files.
• Continue working on the divs for scatterplot to create forms.
  • Before I try a form, I’m going to try to have the ace editor be the selected appearance. If I can get that to work, then integrating forms will be a piece of cake. Forms are always the fallback anyway…
  • Got the editor working, but it doesn’t play well with angular. There is a a directive though – UI-ace that looks promising. Got that to work, but it doesn’t seem to allow for data binding. Need to look into how to load the text in the editor.
• Start on threejs charting?
• Meeting with Agenia at 4:00 – 5:30

8:00 – 5:00 SR

• DB backups now appear automated!
• Failover is a problem since our servers apparently run in two different VMs
• Discussed plans with Lenny, and the presentation with Don
• Tried the code restructuring on my irev apps, which are a reasonably large Angular app. After a few dumb cut-and-paste errors, everything works…?
• Next will be to inherit an app and turk controller from the postControllers.
  • Had to change any variable or function to be explicitly attached to this/self, but other than that, everything works. Broke out irevTurk to it’s own module, using an inherited postController. Deployed and running!

7:30 – 4:30 SR

• DB backups
• Some back and forth with Agenia about when to meet next. Some morning next week
• Nearly fixed the dynamic charts.
  • ‘ISR-PMO’ chokes the query.
  • The goals seem to have problems on FY boundries.
• Deployed Dong’s FR app on the test server and it seems to work
• Spent some time going over the FR Angular code, and there are some very weird things. In the process of fixing(?) them, we broke the app. Dong’s looking into that now.
• Started to pull the iRev code apart and use inheritance. The use of all the functions and pointers seems to be working fine, but there’s a lot of code to move around. I think I’ll create an iRevApps2 directory and populate with cleaned items. At this point I’m thinking that the organization should look something like this:
  • globals – contains JS objects that are used throughout the applications
  • angular – contains the actual angular code used by the application. A single file for a simple SPA should look something like this:

// The Angular code
(function(angular, ml, undefined) {
    angular.module('globalsApp', [])
            .factory('GlobalsService', [ml.factoryPtr]);

    angular.module('inheritApp', ['globalsApp'])
            .controller('MainCtrl', ['GlobalsService', ml.childPtr]);
})(angular, myLogic);

• then I’m not sure. There needs to be a place for common/base classes. Then possibly folders for each SPA component? Here’s Google’s style guide to ponder.

Phil 8:00 – 5:00 SR

• DB Backups
• Tried fixing dynamic charts Python script but no luck. Dong’s going to take back to the office and fix there.
• Angular.
  • More inheritance. Based on yesterday’s work, I finally got all the pieces running together in a global scope. Then, based loosely on this post,  I added in modules using the Revealing Module Pattern. And everything works! Here’s a plunk.
  • Now that I’ve gotten something running, my searching is coming back with usable results. Here are some other approaches, though sometimes also on very old version of Angular:
    • Using Base Controllers In AngularJS – An Experiment 
    • Controller Inheritance in AngularJS 
    • Re: [angular.js] Re: Controller Inheritance (Misko Hevery v1.0-ish)
    • Base Controller with AngularJS (This is closest to what I’m doing)
  • Here’s my writeup on today’s big adventure.