Author Archives: pgfeldman

Phil 12.19.11

9:00 – 1:00 VISIBILITY

Phil 12.16.11

10:00 – 2:00, 3:00 – 4:00 Goofing around

  • It looks like I’ve used up my 20 hours for the week. Because I am a dull, dull person, I’m continuing to play with GWT.
  • Finished chapter 4
  • Almost had a meeting with Brian and Jim, but my PT guy was running late.

Tom De Vito 12.15.2011

Start 12:00

  • Still working on changing over to using the sound controllers as well as switching from test data for the interface to actual data.
  • Wrote out the flow to help torubleshoot
  • fixed commands on PC side to reflect changes on the arduino side.

end 6:00

Mike 12.15.2011

  • Meeting with Tange this morning, went well.  Potentially more work for Dong
  • Finished the maven + gwt documentation, a Word doc and several sample applications are available in our svn at trunk/GWT_folder/samples/
    • The word doc in in the sample-maven-app project
    • At a minimum you will want to download the projects and copy / paste from their poms to set up your own projects
    • The Word documentation gives a step-by-step on how to build the projects from scracth

Dong Shin 12.15.2011

  • has been playing around with GWT and SmartGWT for past few days seeing what it offers….
    • creating UI mimicking PPM
  • met with Tange
    • she likes the new Project Assistant Data Navigator
    • talked about moving help to external HTML
    • TST projects are really confusing her
      • talked about setting relations between TST projects
      • Master TST can have up to 8 children TST projects
      • TST Projects have duration of 3 years
      • show relations in Project Editor (?)

Tom DeVito 12.14.2010

Start:  10:00

  • Dong told me that one of the fingers was making a lot of noise when he came in and was getting hot.  When I powered it back up, it doesn’t seem to have any problems.  I’ll make sure teh power is off when I leave from now on
  • Made some changes to the PC side to work with the new SoundController state struct
  • Need to finish troubleshooting.  I am pretty close to having everything working.

End: 6:00

Mike 12.14.2011

  • I have server access at the customer site and have been doing daily backups of the database and meeting regularly with Tangela to make sure there are no issues
  • In the afternoons I have been learning GWT
  • I went through most of the ‘GWT in Action’ book, skipping chapters about raw javascript and internationalization
  • Then started looking in to extending the logging capabilities
  • It struck me that we would want the logging stuff in a separate library project so I started investigating how that might work, and why not mavenize the whole thing while we’re at it
  • I figured out how to build a maven and eclipse compatible GWT project and library
  • I am now in the process of writing up a tutorial and making several sample projects, should be done tomorrow

Phil 12.14.11

9:00 – 12:00, 2:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

  • Spent about 30 minutes doing laps of the house without crutches at around 7:00 this morning, then had to lay down for about an hour to let the leg recover. It wasn’t pretty, but much better than yesterday, when I could only stand that for a few minutes.
  • Now that I have GWT working, I’m going to go through the book (GWT in Action) unless someone has a better suggestion
  • Spent an unreasonably long time getting a request for a doctor’s note that will allow me to charge hours while on disability
  • Tom brought up the laptop. I have two screens! Woot.

Phil 12.13.11

8:00 – 12:00, 4:00 – 5:00VISIBILITY

  • Setting up a developer account with admin privileges on my home machine since I can’t launch the GWT server otherwise. Yay! Everything is working. Going to revisit the StockWatcher RPC tutorial to get back up to speed.
    • All working.
  • Asked Tom to bring up my laptop, since mine is broken. There’s also a DigiKey order here.

Tom DeVito 12.12.2011

Start: 10:00

  • Working on fixing my SoundController class.  I wasn’t using this for some reason but it allows each finger module to be self contained.  Removed the audio splitting stuff that isn’t necessary with individual midi controllers for each finger module.
  • Increased the com buffer to 1024 from 256 so that each finger can have its own commands each cycle.  I don’t think the will cause any slow downs but if it does I will reduce it.
  • Changed commands from being single char codes to 10 char string.
  • Changed the default baud rate to 57600 from 9600 in the pc ComUtil.  This may be the source of some of the inconsistencies that I have noticed in the past because the arduino has been running at this rate since I started using the midi controllers.
  • Added a struct called state to the soundcontroller.  This struct can be manipulated directly for volume, instrument, note changes.  Sensor data is also contained in this struct.  Commands are mostly going to be used for active changes, like switching to diagnostic and midi sequence mode.  Midi sequence mode will allow for multiple note sequences(This probably won’t be implemented for a while, for now single note mode is what will be used).  When midi sequences are implemented, commands will also determine which sequence to use.
  • Changed initialization for main sketch to work with the SoundController.

End: 6:00

Phil 12.12.11

10:00 –  5:00 VISIBILITY

  • It’s my first day back(ish) at work! I really miss my dual monitors!
    • Trying to get my laptop set up as a second monitor
    • Windows is all messed up. Trying Ubuntu 10.1. Nope, need a newer kernel
    • Trying Linux Mint. Better so far… Nope. Installer hangs repeatedly.
    • Open SUSE 12.1? (because these guys say so). And it’s awesome, but the laptop keeps freezing whenever I bring up Firefox. Looks like it has a one year warranty, so I guess I’ll try to return it.
  • Setting up my IDE (Eclipse 3.7)
    • Maven is in and up, adding environment variables
    • Adding GWT support. It turns out that There is a version of GWT designer that does not run in eclipse that has more features. You can find it here.
  • Added a blog page for things GWT