Phil 8:30 – 4:30 ESSO

• My cat, Andy made it back home after vanishing Sunday evening. He was not doing well and spent the night at the vet, getting a transfusion, antibiotics and ultrasound. More tests today.
• Did the regular backups and talked to Jessica, who said the new code and DB was behaving itself.
• Got permission to create the new FY13 db. We’re aiming for Monday.
• Working through GWT in Action.
• Installed Eclipse 4.2 – Juno
  • And Subversion
    • Downloaded and compiled JavaUtils and MavenAssist.
  • And Google Plugin
  • And MavenAssist
    • Which has some bugs in the repo browser. Fixing those
      • Fixed environment variable substitution in the conf/settings.xml file
      • Need to strip off the entire leading part of the tree if it’s there. Sometimes nexus doesn’t make relative hrefs.

8:00 – 4:30 ESSO

• Backups and such
• Did some updating as well, or more specifically looked into why updating wasn’t(?) straightforward.
• Working from home as I wait for the AC guy.
• Installing FB4.5
  • Main install complete
  • Getting subversion
  • rebuilding my local maven repo
  • Could not get the projects to build. Need to see what’s going on at the Mill, maybe burn the entire workspace and compare.
• Installing MSVC 2010
  • Done – downloading FP project to verify everything’s working
  • Had to re-point to the same projects (in the *exact* same places, mind you). But all is compiling.
  • The texture and shader folders were not up-to-date. Had to do some scrambling.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Testing new VSS and server code
• Need to deploy AccountManager.swf
• 10:30 Meeting. Deploy VSS after? Nope – still need to change the code so that the entire published list isn’t brought down. Code’s written, but not tested. Waiting until after the meeting
• Printing out a copy of Dong’s query.
• Finished fixing PublishedDataPage. Much faster.
• Burned a copy of the VISIBILITY suite workspace to keep on site.

8:00 – 4:30 ESSO

• Put in the cleaned-up scripting client. Much faster. It’s still slow when it downloads published data. Need to look into that.
• Need to add a warning dialog to AccountManager that warns to rebuild roles when roles are deleted. Had a fright with that today.
  • Working on getting the Alert listener to behave…
• Put together slide show with Jessica. Need to add some scripts tomorrow to fill out presentation

8:00 – 5:00 ESSO

• Dong says that the problem was that ‘courier’ isn’t available of windows. You have to use ‘courier_new’. That does explain why everything was working, yet not working…
• Weekly meeting
• Jessica and I have XACTA accounts now, but with read only roles. Denise is going to work on this.
• One more training down, about three to go.
• Writing up a justification for more than one FTE after October 1. Instead of doing FTE work.
• Burning a new copy of VSS4 now that the font problem has been licked.
• Wrote up a screed on VISIBILITY staffing for Jim Griffie

8:30 – 4:30 ESSO

• The contractors punched a hole in my roof today. Got to see the neighborhood from waaay up high. Pretty cool.
• Backups
• Denise is going to put Jessica and I in for xacta(?) accounts
• Made progress through the yearly training. Funny thing, after I started, I could hear someone else doing theirs as well. Need to bring in earphones though – it’s a noisy office.
• Need to burn some images for Brian.
• Need to fix the VISIBILITY website. People are interacting with the links wrong, so I’m going to change the links to make the pages match the actions. I’m installing Adobe Creative Suite so that I can use the project. I wonder if Coldfusion can check out from subversion? Nope.
• Checked out Visibility from Documentation. Going to try DreamWeaver on it.
• I think I opened the correct project, but it does have some Ipsum Lorem in it…
• Highlighted fields for PPM and PA should reflect that users are entering data for the previous month. “Past Due” should reflect the 10th day (possibly the 17th) in PA
• Working on VSS4, trying to figure out why the fon’t isn’t courier. It comes in OK, just is never set in PrettyTextEditor.as. Wondering if ApplyFormatOperation is the culprit? I think I may need to build a small sandbox project to try out.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Tried out the test plan that JR and I put together last Friday. It went well, and she’s going to see how Vern wants it integrated into the actual test plan
• It looks like that the email-based system will be used for about 14 of the PMs until they are able to connect to the VisTool. So that means that we need to tweak that part of the tool
  • All emails for a peorson should be listed in the “cut and paste” email that’s generated. If there is no email in a particular field, then it should probably read “unset” rather than blank or some unprintable character, which is what’s happening noe.
  • August is misspelled.
  • We need to write a script that produces a table with user, project, description, status, and month (for the last 4 months maybe?) as rows. This will let us produce reports in VISIBILITY.
• Back to putting in help/guidance in FlexiChart. Done!
  • Add scrolling frame for series manipulation

8:30 – ESSO

• 10:30 Weekly Meeting
• 1:00 Test plan walk through. Well, that didn’t go well, in that it was a cut-and paste job from the manual and not a test plan at all. Will start writing an actual plan tomorrow.
• Installed Flashbuilder 4.5 from disk. That appears to have fixed my particular problem.

Instructions
use this panel to set up properties that apply to the entire chart

• X-Axis Field: Determines which row will be used to provide the labels for the X-axis in the chart. This will need to be adjusted only very rarely.
• Base at Zero. Plots values relative to zero. If more range is needed, uncheck, and results will be plotted so that the lowest value is on the X-axis
• Legend Enabled: Shows a legent identifying the chart components
• Legend Position: Lets you select between a legend placed at the bottom of the chart or to the right

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8:00 – 4:30 ESSO

• Installed new IngestManager
• Tested Dong’s VSS compiled in 4.5 same lag, so not deployed.
• Working on adding text to Flexichart, but the IDE hangs every time it attempts an auto-complete. Going to have to re-install.
• Reinstalling had no effect. Let’s try a new workspace….
• That didn’t work either. It’s only in Flexichart that I’m having this problem. Since that’s the case, let’s try re-creating it.
• Here’s the file structure:
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• Ok, I’ve changed the IDE and the project, and ConfigScreen.mxml still causes eclipse to hang. Maybe it’s the com.fgm.flexichart.config package? All the pieces extend canvas, so I don’t see what the big deal is. The workaround is to edit in VI and refresh in the IDE. Lame. Utterly lame.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Backups of PPM and scripting databases. Should probably start Vis2 as well, as questions, desktops and slide shows start getting stored.
• So I brought in my test programs today, and they all worked. Yay! This also led to the main bug that was causing the whole problem. The test programs allow the endpoint to be entered from the app. When I was writing the code, I had the default string set to ‘amfsecure’, which is how I had changed all the endpoints after having problems with Visibility Scripting. When I went back to the SettingsXML file, I discovered that the endpoints had gone back to amf, rather than amfsecure. Odd. Maybe from part of a restore that I didn’t know about? Anyway, I tried vis2ff, and that worked, so the version I’m currently building (3.6 and linked projects) should hopefully work now.
• Adding names to the tooltips for the value charting accordion, and matching the formatting.
• Chased down some poor settings.xml loading tied to IE (again!)