8:30 – 4:30 SR

• Lovely traffic today. Took twice as long to get to work. I think I averaged a hair over 20 mph.
• Backups
• Looks like I missed registering a site. Fixed.
• FF 21 and IE 8 are displaying the JavaScript test improperly. Pretty sure I tested this last night on my home machines and all was OK. Yep, just checked on IF, FF, and Chrome at work and they all behave.
• It’s possible that this is a result of the stylesheet not working correctly. The buttons don’t look right.
• And it’s ridiculously slow in IE.  looking for some drawing/animation libraries. These all work in IE 8 with reasonable performance
  • http://raphaeljs.com/
  • http://scripty2.com/
  • http://jsanim.com/
  • http://www.sencha.com/

• So the question is, can this be fixed? I’m going to try to bring up a new instance of YUI3 and point at it explicitly. Regardless, let’s see if I can get the rest of all these pieces working together.
• Working on improving performance. Got the Math.sqrt out of all the force calculations. Now I need to see if that helped. I fear that mostly it’s drawing speed.
• Something to test

8:00 – 4:00 SR

• Backups
• Copied all the webapps and data from the production machine to the test machine.
• More server paperwork.
• Javascript
  • Make the controls a pop-up panel. Got stuck on getting a button to work in the graphics container. It looks like all mouse events are being trapped. Was able to add the button to a new wrapper around the control container. Using that I’m able to fade the controls in and out.
  • Build a multi-part network for more testing will all connections.
  • Progress for today

8:00 – 4:00 SR

• Backups
• Updated budget center cognos data queries. Still need to add an “order by `order`” in the reqonciler post-processing query.  Actually, all queries.
• Remove committed amounts and dates from query builder, calculate from new req data.
• Mousemove not working in IE8. Possibly need to add the explicit div name (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6922672/yui3-events-not-working-in-firefox-or-opera-works-fine-in-chrome-though). That fix is in. Need to test.
• Spent the rest of the day working out the physics for the shapes. Mostly done and ready to start testing?

8:00 – 4:00 SR

• Backups
• Looking into why MIPRs are not being automatically assigned.
• Javascript
  • Finish making the ShapeManager a separate module. Don’t forget to add PhysicsShape as a dependency in the module!
  • Havine huge problems with the setTimeout javascript call. Just found the Y.later() method. Trying that. That did it. Adding more peices back in.
    • And for the record, this is how you maintain context for a function call when in a JavaScript prototype, as far as I can tell: Y.on(“click”, function(ev){self.startSampling(ev);}, “#start”);
  • Ok, here’s the new ShapeManager version where everything behaves. Though the ‘PhysicsShape:selected’ event may not be getting where it needs to…
  • Add physics controls (dials?)
  • Start on map integration. Looks like this may do the trick: http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/show/google-maps-loader

8:30 – 4:30 SR

• The remote desktop on the server came up really slow this morning. This might have something to do with rebooting the VM. For example, getting Vim to launch takes 15 seconds, but the second time was instant. Going to see if it’s just a case of getting some threads started, but if it presists, I’m going to have to poke around some. Speaking of which, I wonder if Chris had any luck getting us an SA?
• Backups
• I was testing all the apps to make sure that they were behaving and had the task manager up on the server. It gets *hammered* when the RA initial query runs. Hmmm.
• Got the patent back from the USPTO over the weekend, with the claims rejected, based on an Immersion patent from 2001. Since I don’t have the hours or the budget to work on this any more, I’ll need to hand this off. That is assuming that Novetta is interested in adding to its patent portfolio.
• Javascript.
  • Had a thought about the tooltip over the weekend. It should be possible to do it as a skinnable div with border and background properties. If the width and height are set to auto, it should work…
  • And it did! Need to check on older browsers. And of course, we have problems with the tooltips disappearing in IE. Ignoring this for now.
  • Changed the module to be skinnable, so that labels and tooltips can be styled sensibly.
  • Starting a shapemanager class, since there’s a lot of special code in the top HTML now.

12:00 – 4:00

• Spent the morning at UMBC for PhD activities. Had the department heads reinforce that if I couldn’t get additional hours it would be “virtually impossible” to get a degree. Thanks a bunch, WCC/Novetta for reneging on our agreement.
• Working on integrating tooltips into graphics. Tricky because the only way to get the mouse position is by having a mousemove event listener and you don’t want one for every shape. Adding a “checkMousePos()” method to the PhysicsShape class that uses a sampled mouse pos from the containing class.
• Stuff to test

8:00 – 9:30, 12:30 – 5:00 SR

• Backups
• Deployed new FA and RA
• Going to try to add a profiling wrapper around queries that can be triggered to see what’s taking so long. See here for details.
• JavaScript
  • Adding events – done, though they are not YUI Events. Just added Y.fire and Y.on in the containing HTML
  • Adding tooltips – this is turning out to be hard. Shape nodes don’t seem to support tooltips, and many of the mouse events seem to be misbehaving. So I’m going to use my shape/div trick to build tooltips. I think opacity can be triggered using transitions, but if not, I can do something based on distance.
  • Adding arguments and defaults for size, color and line thickness – done

8:00 – 4:00 SR

• Backups
• Bugs/Comments
  • RA
    • Add ‘View FMP’ button next to ‘View Invoices’
    • Reported FACTS obligated is showing zeros.
  • FA
    • Non admins need to see the panel that clicking on a requisition line brings up, but they should not be able to edit.
    • Clicking on a line in the top panel of the ‘Financial View’ sould bring up the RA ‘Financial Data Entry’ panel
• JavaScript
  • philfeldman.com is now available through the firewall. And the MSD display is working
  • Add names (show/hide attribute) and tooltips (overlay)  next
    • Labels are working. In YUI you have to handle text as a <div>, since there is no support for text in YUI.Graphic class.
  • Size and color (normal, selected, hover?)  attributes, and initial arguments. Also could have default values this way.
  • Fire a “clicked” event for integration with application.

  DARPA releases open source code. However, some links seem to be broken.