Category Archives: Phil

Phil 12.12.11

10:00 –  5:00 VISIBILITY

  • It’s my first day back(ish) at work! I really miss my dual monitors!
    • Trying to get my laptop set up as a second monitor
    • Windows is all messed up. Trying Ubuntu 10.1. Nope, need a newer kernel
    • Trying Linux Mint. Better so far… Nope. Installer hangs repeatedly.
    • Open SUSE 12.1? (because these guys say so). And it’s awesome, but the laptop keeps freezing whenever I bring up Firefox. Looks like it has a one year warranty, so I guess I’ll try to return it.
  • Setting up my IDE (Eclipse 3.7)
    • Maven is in and up, adding environment variables
    • Adding GWT support. It turns out that There is a version of GWT designer that does not run in eclipse that has more features. You can find it here.
  • Added a blog page for things GWT

Phil 11.29.11

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

Phil 11.25.11

8:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

  • Rode in today – that should burn a calorie or two
  • Tried creating an HTML page using the eclipse gwt wizards and had the same problem. I’m going to try the tutorial from Google to see if I get any different results.
    • It seems as though this is a known bug, and has been around for a long time. The fix is to manually create the html.
    • Though if you create a project with default code in it, all the pieces are created without the widgets and you just need to change the source. Which explains why the bug has been unfixed for so long.
    • Saving the changed code shows in the browser on refresh. Very cool.
    • The proper way to do event handlers in GWT.

Phil 11.23.11

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

Phil 11.22.11

8:00 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

  • Backed up the current database – slight change
  • Making font sizes look at the screen resolution, rather than just being in pixels, since the retina display makes 20 pixels look like bacteria.
  • I think I’m actually done with GesturePieChart!
  • Nice color editor: http://mudcu.be/sphere/
  • Looking at the GWT book.
    • In addition to event handling, GWT has a Message Bus which allows for more decoupled data transfer.
    • UIBinder XML = MXML?
    • Java object serialization. How is typing handled?
    • Updating my Eclipse Google plugin

Phil 11.18.11

7:30 – VISIBILITY

  • Still unable to contact Rich G. about testing
  • Meeting with Chris B. about PPM and PA. All notes are about PA unless PPM is explicitly noted
    • Add auto-fill capability
      • Value (selectable) fill up to a certain month. The default is zero. This might makes sense to do as a popup dialog. There are a lot of options, but it will be used infrequently.
      • When a value us equal to 100%, auto fill that value to the end of the period of performance for that line item. Again, we may want to have a popup that says “This value is equal to 100% of the appropriation. Would you like this to be auto filled to the end of this appropriation?”
    • Add button to PPM “Project Editor” page that will open the appropriate monthly financial data entry page
    • FACTS data should only show for Admin.
    • Change “PM Actuals” to “PM Actuals (invoiced) Outlay
      • Copy values from PM Actual cell to Reported outlay cell (in PPM and PA)
      • hide “Reported Outlay” line in PA only
    • Entry should be selectable for monthly or cumulative. If entered as monthly, then it will be added to the previous month and shown in the cell as cumulative.
      • Dropdown should say “Enter Monthly Value” or “Enter Cumulative Value”
    • Year View in PA should be editable only by users with Admin (actually, probably NSAHQ users as well?)
    • Only show unige fields on identifier dropdown. There may have to be an identifier as well – e.g. Appr: O&M (2010), Name: MyProject…
    • Make a given month current until the 17th of the next month. So a project manager would have until November 17 to enter values for October
    • Continue to integrate navigation through line items by Overdue, Incomplete, Current, or All
  • Added comments to the PPM req’s page.

Phil 11.17.11

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed Dongs new stuff
  • tried to contact our designated server test guy
  • No meeting with Chris. He’s sick. We’ll try again tomorrow.
  • Need to make FACTS data optional
  • Got a new 4S. Much faster with the app.
  • Fixed up a few things with the style browser
  • Meeting with Kristi and Dong about Project Assistant
    • Splash page with a “tip of the day”, “Tutorial” button, and a “Use Project Assistant” button
    • Kristi will build the tutorial first, then we’ll break it into the help
    • Dong will add the ability to navigate through the monthly entries with the following filters:
      • overdue
      • incomplete
      • current
      • all

Phil 11.16.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Tried to contact our test guy by phone and email, no luck yet.
  • Cleaning up GesturePieChart and GesturePieChartEvent
  • Spent quite a bit of time digging through styles to find how to make things look best together. Made a new view called StyleBrowser to seve work for the next time.
  • Dong gave me a new disk. We’ll all meet on site to deploy and talk to Chris.

How to get all the currently defined styles (from http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/12/building-a-simple-style-browser-in-flex-3/)

 var arr:Array = styleManager.selectors;
 var selector:String;
 var cssStyle:CSSStyleDeclaration;
 var obj:Object;

 var key:String;
 for each (selector in arr){
     cssStyle = styleManager.getStyleDeclaration(selector);
     obj = new cssStyle.defaultFactory();
     for (key in obj) {
         trace(selector+": "+key+" = "+obj[key]);
     }
 }

Phil 11.15.11

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

  • Started the ball rolling with Vernon on testing. Call Rich tomorrow to see how to progress.
  • Merged the VisMobScreen code into svn
  • Interview
  • Wrote up an GesturePieChartEvent that handles getting the chartDictionary to the parent component. Now I just need to do some commenting.

Phil 11.14.11

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Network problems on site again. Our servers are running just fin though.
  • Working on nicer zooming. Got it. I just use a 200ms timer that’s reset every time the zoom method is called. If more then 200ms has passed since the last zoom, moving is allowed. Time to do some cleaning up of the code and dataProvider.
  • Dong found a cool thing that uses GWT instead of Flex: http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/#grid_offline_pref_featured_category

Phil 11.10.11

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed new Project Assistant to Jeff’s server. Required dropping a view and then re-sourcing it in the DB.
  • Set up (I believe) a repeating task to back up the database daily. We’ll see if it works on Monday
  • Got pan and zoom working on the phone. Zoom is clunky – I think I need to change it so that the center of the zoom is always the center of the screen.

Phil 11.9.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Set up scripts to backup financial databases. Need to automate those next.
  • Working through getting gestures to behave exactly right. I need to be able to move the chart without selecting parts. Maybe use a time delay?
  • Interview.

Phil 11.8.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • My machine is working again!
  • Gave Mike my receipts for all my various permissions
  • Doing the Phishing training
  • Back to recognizing gestures. It may be that region select won’t be a problem?

Phil 11.7.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Hopefully my customer machine is being fixed as I write this.
  • Mike got his access today?
  • Putting all the test pieces together to produce a fully functional pie chart component
  • More machine fixing
  • Meeting with Tangie
  • Uploaded new Project Assistant