Category Archives: Phil

Phil 1.2.13

8:00 – 3:00

  • Backed up
  • Got admin privileges on my development box, so I can try a variety of flash players to see what gives with the old version of PPM
  • Working on figuring out what timesheet and what charge number to use.
  • Also working on getting the security videos to download. Done. Need to sign and send off the form
  • Worked on the design of the new Ingest Manager / Scripting IDE. Req’s here.
  • Long chat with Jessie about Novetta/FGM/White Cliffs.

3:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Changing HelloHapticDevice2 to classes. Need to figure out how to do C++ callbacks inside of classes again.
  • Ran into some odd problems that were fixed by moving all the shared .h files to stdafx.h and just including that. The static callback is set and compiling. Tomorrow we’ll try firing it.

Phil 12.31.12

8:00 – 12:00 ESSO

  • Deployed a new version of PPM that seems to be working much better than the old version
  • Backups. Slow, but at least I can get on the server
  • Security training.

12:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Switched over to the HD command-line examples to see what’s actually going on. Code is better commented, and seems to run better. There aren’t any peculiar error messages, at least, and no GLUT.
  • Looking through HelloHapticDevice.
  • Got a copy of the project built with MSVC working (i.e. with stdafx, etc.) I had to move a copy of msvcrtd.lib to the lib folder that was explicitly included. Otherwise, here are screenshots of the various properties (Note the Active(DebugAcademicEdition) configuration at the top of the dialog:

C++_General
C++_Optimization
C++_CodeGen

Link_General
Link_Input

  • And that’s it for 2012.

Phil 12.28.12

8:00 – 12:00 ESSO

  • Walked through some bugs with Lenny.
  • Attempted to back up but the connection with PuTTY was way slow. It seems to be a known problem, so I’ll wait until Monday to try again.
  • Helped Brian out with some JavaScript/HTML that handles collapsing tables. The code was not written well to educate.

12:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Got the HLAPI demonstration code compiled, though some things run and some things don’t. I get errors like “Haptics failed to initialize”. Still, “HelloSphere” works, which is enough to get the hang of things.
  • Hmm. Looks like it’s written for OGL 1.x?
  • Still, pretty cool. I’ve got a rotating cube with appropriate forces:

  • Also a teapot. So arbitrary geometry seems fine.
  • Still, I don’t like this:
	// Start a new haptic shape.  Use the feedback buffer to capture OpenGL 
	// geometry for haptic rendering.
	hlBeginShape(HL_SHAPE_FEEDBACK_BUFFER, gSphereShapeId);
  • That does mean OGL 1.x. No feedback buffer in OGL 3.0 or greater. That means this library probably won’t be all that useful.

Phil 12.26.12

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Backed up the databases on site.
  • Took some training that I didn’t think I needed, but I was on the email list, soooo…
  • Sent an email to Chris and Dave to renew Dong’s pass
  • Went home on account of the weather. So I’m setting up my work environment again. Hopefully it’s not that broken.
  • Huh. My Tomcat instance seems to be missing. Downloading. Installed.
  • Getting the config files and databases from fgmdev.
  • Am now able to compile and run Vis2
  • Can’t get the “new user / no column header” bug to happen.
  • Starting on adding font size to legend and panel titles.

Phil 12.14.12

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Backups. And everything is *still* working on the production server!
  • Worked some with alerts before going off to a GAO meeting and then a meeting with Jim G. The upshot is closer integration with GAO.
  • Submitted paperwork for school reimbursement before switch to White Cliffs.

Phil 12.12.12

8:00 – ESSO

  • Didn’t blog yesterday. Basically worked with Dong on getting VSS working on the production server
  • Spent this morning breaking everything on the production server. Somehow, instead of copying folders to the “Production Webapps” backup directory, I moved them. This cause old war files to recreate obsolete versions of everything. And somehow the copied items weren’t complete so *everything* had to be rebuilt from a combination of files on the integration server and files from the Updates directory. Most. Fun. Ever.
  • Got the first pass of alerts running though, which is a win.

Phil 12.10.12

8:00 – 4:00, ESSO

  • ADF
    • Finished this tutorial. The charts are pretty nice. Hooking up data is actually amazing. I fear debugging though.
    • Looks like audio and video are built in. Next time we build an app, we’re going to do this for the help.
  • Meeting from 11:00 – 1:00
  • Ok, back from that. Let’s do some more charting!
  • It looks like I need to download Oracle DB 11. Sigh. 99 MB of data in the pipe, 99 MB of data, take one down and send it along, 98 MB of data in the pipe…
  • And it didn’t install properly. This is now getting annoying. Oh, I see, there is no 64-bit version. This is an attempted fix. Didn’t work for me though. More tomorrow.

Phil 12.7.12

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Much running around yesterday, and I never got a chance to write things.
    • Backups
    • No meeting. Don had not set it up and was not there anyway.
    • Worked on getting VisibilityScripting alert scripts working, but the stored procedure that was needed didn’t store properly.
    • More ADF
    • Also, FP – in-process presentations
  • Backups
  • Got Dong’s stored procedure working
  • Ingested Lenny’s FY13 spreadsheet with minor tweaks. He’ll have everything ready for Tuesday
  • 11:00 – 1:00 meeting on Monday.
  • JDeveloper. Hooking up to data now, which is pretty cool. I have not seen how to duplicate a line like in Eclipse <CTRL-Shift-Arrow> I miss that. I am learning enough that I can stumble around and fix bugs that I cause.
  • Progress for the day:

Phil 12.5.12

8:30 – 2:30 ESSO

  • Backups
  • Deployed new versions of PPM and PA. The PA html file won’t load properly in IE, though it does in Firefox. Trued taking the PPM html file which does work fine, and replace all ocurrances of ProjPortfolioMgr with ProjectAssistant. Same problem. And also the same condition that it works in FF but not IE. Odd. Will show Dong tomorrow.
  • Discussions with Lenny about getting our data pulls either tomorrow or Friday. Was also directed to make sure that Lenny and I were present on any demo that Don gives.
  • Checked out what Dong is doing with his queries. We’ll also try to implement the Alert query so we can have a fun display for the presentation later this month.
  • Back to ADF and JDeveloper.

2:30 – 5:30 White Cliffs

Phil 12.4.12

8:30 – 2:20 ESSO

  • More ADF
  • Backups, and a non-demo. Will be rescheduled for later.
  • Got reamed for watching a YOuTube video. But did find that inspirational in the end.
  • Need to write up status report for Jim G.
  • Lenny found an odd bug where the text in one of the panels overwrites itself. Unable to print out. Will try tomorrow.

2:30 – 4:30 FP

  • Project review

Phil 12.3.12

8:00 – 10:00 ESSO

  • Backups.
  • Waited for Don a bit but no show. I guess we’ll figure out what kind of demo we’re going to do tomorrow when we get there.
  • Verified that Lenny had made a script for Carla. Yay, Lenny!

10:00 – 12:00 FP

  • Thermal interfaces and tangible interactions with multiple objects using Kinect. Cool stuff.

12:00 – 2:00 OH

  • FGM->White Cliff transition
  • Sent a note to Jim asking how we take our assets with us.

2:00 – 4:00 ESSO

Phil 11.29.12

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

Phil 11.27.12

8:00 – 2:00 ESSO

  • Discussion with Lenny and Dong about how to read in cognos data and use it to populate the FACTS fields in PPM and PA.
  • Backups
  • Working on the JDeveloper JSF tutorials – managed to crash JDeveloper.
  • Talked to Dong about next dev environments. We discussed Adobe and Netbeans in addition to what we’re using now. My thought is that if we can make a table and chart that allow us to visualize data sitting in a DB here and on site, we have a viable option. If it’s open source and supported by a player unlikely to go out of business any time soon, then so much the better.

2:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Qualitative Methods.

Phil 11.26.12

8:30 – 4:30 ESSO

  • Backups
  • More interaction with Don abo0ut what kind of visualizations he wants. Printed out a description of the putative table that we need to produce. Dong and I will try to code it tomorrow in site.
  • Put together FlexiCharts of ACC, since that appears to have vanished.
  • Got started back on JDeveloper and ADF.