Category Archives: Mike

Mike 5.21.2012

  • Production backups at site
  • meeting being set up to discuss moving SSPs?
  • Per Jessica R.’s request to show column charts with line trends on them, I’m looking in to making a customizable chart
    • Will allows users to change series types
      • AreaSeries
      • BubbleSeries
      • CandlestickSeries
      • ColumnSeries
      • HLOCSeries
      • LineSeries
      • PlotSeries
    • Will allow users to select series color
    • Will save these settings to dashboards / slideshows
    • Will have some kind of copy / paste functionality to copy settings between multiple similar charts
    • The configuration menu will be accessed through either a button or right-clicking the chart if the button is too obnoxious looking

Mike 5.18.2012

  • Production backups
  • Wrote up our weekly status and submitted it to Mike H., Dave W., and Jim from TASC
  • No word back yet from the data center about our connectivity problems
  • Looking in to some neat javascript only things for simple websites

Mike 5.17.2012

  • Production system backup
  • Met with Dong and went over the COGNOS data, we should be able to write a script that will mesh the desired data in to one table in visibility
  • Got a response from the other person having connection problems.  They are still having problems and gave me their IP.  I submitted a ticket with the enterprise help desk so hopefully they will have an idea of what is going wrong.
  • Finished up my manifest reader library and wrote a short users guide.  Shared in my sandbox svn folder for now.

Mike 5.16.2012

  • Production server backups
  • Completed some OCI training for TASC requested by Jim
  • The remote site admin got back to me.  He said he can’t reach the production but last month was able to reach the test site.  I asked him to verify he can connect to the test site then I will contact local server admins
  • Also sent an email to the other person who was having connection issues.  I haven’t heard from them since their local admin said he could connect just fine.  Hopeful the admin and user resolved everything and just forgot to tell us.
  • Started matching up data between PPM and COGNOS, asked Dong to come in tomorrow to help write a query

Mike 5.15.2012

  • Backups on the production server
  • Prepared some of the connection test document and troubleshooting, will have more to add to troubleshooting once we resolve something
  • Read up on how the network works, proxies, firewalls, pki, etc. to see what may be blocking some users
  • Updated my internal FGM resume
  • It works! I have a small gwt app that displays exactly when it was built, the svn version number, and who built it.  We can also add other fields as needed.
  • Need to turn it in to a library.

Mike 5.14.2012

  • Backed up the production server
  • Drafted a new timeline for deploying the VIS Tool with the final date of July 9th for full production (aprox. 2 months of connection testing and early adopters should be sufficient depending on connection issues), sent it to Jim/Tangie
  • Sent an email to the admin of the user who is having connection problems, hopefully he can tell me why he can connect and she cannot
  • Added classification markings to the vis index sites
  • Still playing around with maven and creating a webservice that returns the build date and SVN version number.  I finally have the date and version being placed in the manifest file correctly.

Mike 5.11.12

  • Stopped by the fort for a few hours in the afternoon, decided this would be a good time to move everything to production
    • Stopped the test server
    • Dumped all the databases to files
    • Moved the databases to production
    • Deployed the new index sites to production
    • Turned on the production server and all the tools
    • Created a redirect site for test to production
    • turned test server back on to help redirect users
  • Sent an email to Tangie and Jim, Tangie is out of the office until the 21st or 22nd

Mike 5.10.12

5.9.2012 Mike

  • Usual backups at site
  • Meeting is set for tomorrow (Thursday the 10th) to talk about the new data ingest.  Dong, Phil and I will all be going.
  • Finished updating the new index site on the inside and deployed it to the production server with application links to the test server.  I will update the links when we make the move.
  • Back at the mill, resolved all my issues and finished rebuilding each of the projects.  All set to move them inside to the test server once it is no longer the production server.

Mike 5.8.2012

  • Usual backups at site
  • Fixed an issue on the upcoming production server with our deployed webapps,  apparently copy/paste across remote desktops sometimes adds random bytes to the end of files.  This caused some run-time errors in visibility.  It may be best to zip everything up before moving it between servers.  At least then we’ll know right away if anything is corrupted as the zip will have errors.  Or move everything across networked drives…
  • Jim and Tangie want to set up a meeting to talk about new data ingest.  This is going to be set up for sometime next week.
  • Working on rebuilding the entire visibility suite + PM + PA with the new PKI login stuff to bring in and deploy.  Ran in to some errors in UsersAndRoles, I think I have fixed them.  Also there is a weird class called SolrXMLIngestor that makes constant calls to ‘{UPLOADS_DIR}/temp__’ which is hard-coded in to the class so it doesn’t seem very temporary to me…

5.7.2012

  • Usual backups at site
  • imported the new visibility site and fixed a javascript error in IE, also added contact page content
  • Talked to Tangie, apparently the two individuals having connection problems to our site contacted their local admins who could connect just fine.  So they are now working with those admins to resolve the problems.  So it’s out of our hands.
  • Watched an interesting presentation about Spring Security (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Spring-Security-3).  It’s rather long but does give a good basic introduction of what can be done:
    • Users, roles, and rights
    • Method level, annotation- based restrictions based on rights (based on rights is the best way to do it but you could base your rules on anything really)
    • Restricting urls to authenticated users
    • Restricting parts of the UI based on permissions
  • Trying out some of the examples

Mike 5.4.12

  • Usual backups at site
  • Tangie still appears to be out but everything is still up and running as always
  • Back at the mill, going to finish up the new site and burn it to a disc to deploy on Monday

Mike 5.3.12

  • Backups at site
  • Tried contacting Tangie with a list of addresses to try and connect to, got an out of office reply
  • Moved visibility and ppm+pa over to the production server with a copy of the database tables, everything seems to be working
  • Working on the new Visibility site.  I have pages for every tool now with images and some content.  I fixed a javascript issue that was preventing some of the cooler menus and functionality from working (you get what you pay for from free templates).

Mike 5.2.2012

  • Usual backups at site
  • Turned in our April status report to Jim and his assistant from TASC
  • Working with Tangie to diagnose connectivity issues at some sites.  Phil assistant has been requested by ‘management’
  • Training for the new cognos system has fallen through so the customer would like to move forward with that.  There may be a meeting next week
  • Dong’s VR came through
  • Looked up the standards for classification banners on websites
  • Back at the mill typing up our April status for FGM Jim
  • Updated my 2012 performance plan
  • Working on content for the VIS Tool index pages