• Still trying to get a hold of Denise Price regarding the SSP requests she mentioned to Brian
• Regarding the issues Tangela was having:
• A fix for the auto-fill is deployed
• I was able to create a funding request, Tangela was also able to as well, Christina is still having trouble
• Trying to get Kristi and Dong VRs
• Studying the basics of the Spring framework

Post delayed due to switching servers.

• Documenting workspace set up guide for Eclipse, GWT, Maven, and Spring
• Contacted Denise Price regarding SSP changes
• Spoke with Tangela Hall regarding several issues with the Vis Tool:
• Auto-fill is no longer functioning in PPM
• Some confusions regarding project and line item status, this may turn in to a feature request
• Create Funding Request seems to be broken at site but functioning fine here, I will investigate more tomorrow

So it turns out I am neither crazy nor as inept as I thought and what I’ve been trying to do can’t be done.  I’ve been trying to combine Eclipse Indigo (3.7) + m2Eclipse + the Google Eclipse Plugin and a few other things to make the best development environment possible.  But there’s currently an issue with GWT 2.4.0 and the Google Eclipse Plugin + m2Eclipse.

• Google says it supports this integration and even has a tutorial on how to do it: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/roo-sts.html
• The tutorial doesn’t work, google posted a fix that also does not work: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/RequestFactoryInterfaceValidation
• There are lots of proposed fixes and workarounds, but none seem to work: http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?116544-Can-t-compile-with-GWT-2-4
• There are probably 6 completely different ‘fixes’ in that thread that don’t fix anything
• This is another thread on the topic: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/ROO-2799
• The final entry is a debugging work-around which allows maven to build / run the gwt app and debug in remotely in Eclipse
• NOTE: It appears that once you successfully build with maven, m2Eclipse is smart enough to not rebuild the project if no changes have been made and thus allows you to run / debug directly from Eclipse.  So I think I’ve got it:
• I have auto code generation, entity management, and database management from Spring Roo
• I have building and dependency management from Maven
• The maven build runs anywhere including Hudson (not tested, but a fair assumption)
• The Eclipse IDE works (save the build then run from Eclipse, must build from maven)

Some useful sites for GWT, GAE, Maven + Eclipse:

• http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-use-google-plugin-for-eclipse.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/877949/conflicting-versions-of-datanucleus-enhancer-in-a-maven-google-app-engine-projec
• http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/roo-sts.html

• Continuing to go to site and backup the database / check that everything is up on a daily basis
• Working to combine the following in to one project:
• GWT
• Google App Engine
• Hibernate
• JPA Entities
• Maven
• Spring Roo
• Eclipse Indigo
• There’s several examples online but they are all a little out of date and have build problems:
• http://blog.springsource.com/2010/06/02/using-springsource-tool-suite-2-3-3-m1-with-roo-and-gwt/
• http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/roo-sts.html
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/creating-application-using

• Deployed a new version of Project Assistant with documentation
• Sent a note to Tangie, she tested and approved the help buttons / documentation
• Tangie also informed me that she “hoped” we would be testing at a TST site by “the end of February”

• Still waiting on the customer to suggest a beta test site, she said she would get back to me this week
• Still backing up the database / checking on the server every day
• Working with Kristi on the Documentation for Project Assistant,  hopefully we can get it up on SVN and deploy a first draft at site this week
• Refreshed my memory on proper domain model diagrams and looked at a few free tools that do it, MySQLWorkbench seems to be the best, you can create your model/diagram then the program will create a database schema for you
• Spent the rest of the day looking at PDF generation libraries as it would be a handy for lots of different tasks: generating reports for visibility, generating reports for PPM, etc.  There are several options:
• iText seems to be the most widely adopted.  It has lots of documentation, examples and is pretty straightforward to use.  It has a very complicated licensing / pricing structure though.
• PDFJet is a fairly established option with documentation, examples, and almost as many features as iText.  It also has a simple flat commercial licensing fee of $295.
• PDF Clown is the last reasonable option I saw.  It is the least developed of the three lacking even an automatic layout however it is completely open source.

• Worked a little more on demo screens for Todd
• Working with Kristi on Project Assistant documentation and tutorial
• Creating a word doc that will then be converted to html
• Spending my spare time investigating java enterprise architecture and development tools (learning all sorts of acronyms):
• JPA 2
• Hibernate
• Spring, SpringRoo
• Java EE 6
• JAX-WS, RMI, and other tiered architecture communication schemes
• http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/firstcup/doc/docinfo.html
• http://static.springsource.org/spring-roo/reference/html/index.html

• Finished the GeoEncoder, it’s available in our SVN at /trunk/Java_folders/Projects/GeoEncoder
• It works pretty well but will likely need tweaks and will become more developed as it sees use
• It should work on any MySQL table that contains addresses, it expects 3 columns: street address, city, and state but should work fine if all three are lumped in to one column
• the minimum requirement for an address is the state, geoencoding ‘MD’ would just give a lat/lng of the center of Maryland
• Each lookup takes about 1/3 a second on my wireless connection here
• Working on making a few more charts in AppBoard
• One chart which displays donations by state over time, grouping states the following way: RI, NY+NJ+MA, Rest
• A query that returns donations by year for ‘Rest’: SELECT substr(GFDate, length(GFDate)-3, 4) as year, sum(GFAmt) FROM `test`.`donors` WHERE AddrState <> ‘MA’ AND AddrState <> ‘NJ’ AND AddrState <> ‘NY’ AND AddrState <> ‘RI’ GROUP BY year;
• Another chart that breaks down the donors by Top 3 givers, Top 100, Rest each year.
• A query that gives the top 3 donors of 2011 SELECT substr(GFDate, length(GFDate)-3, 4) as year, sum(GFAmt) as sumGift, ImportID, FullName, AddrStreet FROM `test`.`donors`
  WHERE GFDate LIKE ‘%2011’ GROUP BY ImportID ORDER BY sumGift DESC LIMIT 3;

• More sitting around at site being a system admin
• Deployed Appboard to fgmdev
• crunched some data in excel and came up with a second appboard demo
• working on a geoencoding utitlity that makes call to http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/
• The service allows 50,000 calls a day for free which should serve any of our purposes
• Done with the class that makes call to yahoo, now working on connecting to an arbitrary MySQL table, pulling out address record and inserting lats / lngs, should be done tomorrow

• Spent the beginning of last week working on a Demo of Appboard and Visibility
• Then spent the rest of the week learning GWT stuff
• Mon / Tuesday off for Christmas
• Spent yesterday getting JebGL working with some sample WebGL stuff.
• Took those samples in this morning to the customer site to test them, they did not work so WebGL will have to be tabled for now
• Back to GWT stuff

• 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

• Created a new component, com.fgm.FGMUtils.ui.LabelContainer, which is a simple bordered container with a label along the top to help with laying out and organizing multiple components.
• It has the following properties / styles (defaults):
  • label (): text to be displayed along the top
  • labelPlacement (“left”): left, right, or center
  • labelColor (black): color of the label text
  • labelFontSize (whatever application default is): size of the label text, 12 is usually the default of Flex applications
  • labelPadding (5): number of pixels on either side of the label
  • borderAlpha (1.0): alpha of the border lines
  • borderColor (black): color of the border lines
  • borderWeight (1): width, in pixels, of the border lines.  May not exceed the value of borderPadding
  • borderPadding (3): padding between the outside of the component and the border lines
• A layout may be applied to the container just like another other spark container
• The component is in the FGMFlexUtils45 Library