Category Archives: Phil

Phil 6.20.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

Phil 6.17.11

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Working on getting VNC or something similar runing on my Linux box
  • Installed VNC server according to the directions here: http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Configure-the-server/Install-VNC.html
  • Have the vnc server and client running, but can’t control the desktop. Could be because I’m logged into the server. Going to install updates, restart, and try without being logged in.
  • Got VNC running without a click of ‘OK’ on the server, but I still have to be logged in.
  • Brian has to fill out a (SPF?) form to get Jeff’s server onto both networks. Looks like we need some additional approval, too.

Phil 6.16.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • FB 4.5 appears to be happy and integrated. Back to the cloud IDE
  • looking at the jEdit plug-in architecture, which has a nice example (http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/plugin-implement.html).
    • Oh, drat. jEdit can’t work with Web Start: http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/installation.html#id446561. This is due to the plugin architecture (i.e dynamic loading).
    • Eclipse appears to work with Web Start. On the other hand, downloading the Eclipse environment and using remote file access could be a lot less effort, and download time. My concern is that eclipse comes with java compilers, which take up room and slow the download.
    • According to this FAQ (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/TM_and_RSE_FAQ), the best option is to install Eclipse on the server and remote desktop in with a VNC such as NX Server.
    • Set up an Ubuntu box in my office to play with.
  • Nothing going on with our probnlem server, except that more people are noticing that they can’t get their VMs set up either… Bill. D. did give us a nice shout out though 🙂

Phil 6.15.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Testing flexMojosStandin – not working yet
    • Copied over the <libraryPath> children from the working version in CVS. No change
    • Changed <actionScriptProperties version=”3″> to <actionScriptProperties version=”3″>. No change
    • Changed <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”3″> to <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”0″>. Compiles now!
  • Not that I have a solution, looking for the minimum change that converts a flexmojos-generated file to a working one.
    • Changed <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”3″> to <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”0″>.
  • Added all the changes back into MavenAssist and added a checkbox to enable disable the flexMojos bypass.
  • No progress on our problem server today – now we have different groups saying that it’s someone else’s job to open the port

Phil 6.14.11

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Forgot to bring the cat in off the deck.
    • Back now. Cat was happily sleeping in a patch of sun, with his chin on a paving stone. He was not all that interested in coming in.
  • Can build FGMUtils45 with maven, but not with FlexBuilder. Trying Mike’s test of rebooting. Nope. It looks like flexmojos is screwing up again. I’m going to try putting the flexMojosStandin() method back in, probably with a checkbox to enable, since this seems to pop up a lot.
  • Phone screen with Tim Lotz.
  • Indoc at 1:30.
  • Added a checkbox to Maven assist that allows you to bypass flexbuilder:flexmojos and use the internal .actionscriptproperties code. We’ll see if that helps with the current problem.

Phil 6.13.11

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • 1:30 kickoff(?) meeting tomorrow.
  • Installing Flashbuilder 4.5
    • Installed, but when I tried to point my FB4 Eclipse to the new SDK, I got compile errors that Eclipse couldn’t find the player.
    • Looked around for help on installing FB4.5 as a plugin, and found this: (http://joeygutierrez.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/flash-builder-4-5-plugin/). It turns out that in the installation folder, under ‘utilities’, is the ‘Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Plug-in Utility.exe’
    • Tried running the plug in utility, but it choked on my 64-bit version of eclipse, which amusingly enough FB4 had no problem with. Going to go download the latest Eclipse 32-bit version now…
    • Well, that appeared to work. Now we just have to put all the plugins together again.
  • FGMUtils chokes on DataGridColumn, trying out FGMFlexUtils45.
    • Which doesn’t have a pom file. WTF? Waiting for Mike.
  • Deployed Visibility3, Visibility Scripting on Jeff’s server
  • Added the accounts Brian asked for

Phil 6.9.11

8:00 – 6:30 VISIBILITY

  • I-95 was a mess today. Took back roads in.
  • Cleaning up and documenting SqlInfoObject – done
  • Cleaning up and documenting QueryResponseObject – done
  • Cleaning up and documenting QueryObject – done
  • Cleaning up and documenting InsertObject – done
  • Cleaning up and documenting CreateTableObject – done
  • Meeting with Trish to go over the new PPM at 2:00
    • Role Management
      • The actions need some more description
      • Didn’t see the “can only see data I’m connected to ” option
    • Funding Request
      • Change OISR-PMO and OISR-TF to ISR-PMO and ISR-TF
      • Don’t need the “Location” column under contracts, but the Performance Location needs to be editable
    • Funding Status Data
      • The FY XX budget value isn’t calculating correctly – it should be the same as the FY XX value from the Project Editor
      • Each value in the “Amount” column comes from a single funding request. The “Remaining To Distribute” subtracts that particular amount from the total FY XX budget for that project. The Direct Cites and Reimbursables are on lines that have no Amount. In other words, there is an amount, then up to a few lines for that particular funding request, then another amount, and so on.
    • I have screenshots of all the above.

Phil 6.8.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Heat warnings today. Think I’ll go for my ride early
  • Cleaning up and documenting InfoObjectEvent – done
  • Testing new PPM
  • Deployed PPM on the new server. All seems to be running well.
  • WRT our ‘problem’ server, I was able to talk to the lead technical person. It turns out that there is a proxy which is taking the packets and dumping them, because no one ever put our server in the plan. So the original request, not the firewall addendum was correct in the first place. Sigh. Anyway, it’s being worked.

Phil 6.7.2011

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Cleaning up and commenting the InfoObjectEvent code
  • This is very interesting: schema.org. Bing, Google and Yahoo are using it. It would be nice to make an ingestor that would be able to look through a tagged document and build a variety of tables…?
  • Progress with the server! Was able to fill out a *new* form that requests firewall access. This works as an addendum to the original port request.
  • Bill Dolly came over for drinks and discussion

5:30 – 6:30 – FP

  • Walked through some of Tom’s code, and showed him how to use pointers to copy memory, regardless of how it’s typed.

Phil 6.6.11

7:30 – 11:00, 3:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

  • Turns out it’s my IT band that’s the problem, not the LCL. Need to make a PT appt this week.
  • Working on callbacks from InfoObjectManager. Looks like everything is working. Need to test,  add comments, and check in
  • Helped Brian register Jeff’s server for dual-facing proxy service

Phil 6.3.11

8:00 – 3:00 VISIBILITY

  • Producing a few more tables from the General categories.
  • The InfoObjectManager cannot tell you that a database call that does not return any results (i.e. an INSERT) has returned successfully or failed. Fixing that.
  • No progress on getting ports opened.

Phil 6.2.11

8:00 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

  • Pinged Christine
  • Trying to figure out the report creation scheme of SonicRecruit. The help is absolute crap.
    • Reports
      • Candidate
        • Application – produces small table of last name, first name, date applied, status date, job id, and job title
        • Candidate Historical – produces large table of last name, first name, status, status date, job id, job title, status changed by. Ingesting
        • General – produces large table. Name, Title, Recruiter, Location, City, Education, Source, Applied for, Job Title, Status, Date, How did you learn about this opportunity, Job status, Job recruiter, job category, job duration, job date posted, currently, location, Clearance level. Ingesting
        • Historical
        • Duplicate Candidate
        • Status / Source
        • Feedback Form
      • Job
        • Job General
        • General
        • Historical
        • Job Candidate
        • Statistical
        • Cost Per Hire
        • Crosspost Summary
        • Crosspost Detailed
        • Bottleneck
      • Division (Dialog)
      • Activity
        • Events
        • Comments
        • User Login / Logout times
        • Hiring Manager Login / Logout times
        • Action Report
      • My Saved (no templates saved on any)
        • Candidate Templates
          • General
          • Historical
          • Status
          • Feedback
        • Job Reports Templates
          • Job/Candidate
          • General
          • Historical
          • Statistical
          • Cost-per-hire
          • Crosspost detailed
        • Division Reports Templates
          • General
      • All Saved (Same as My Saved except for)
        • Candidate Reports Templates
          • New Hires (standard)
        • Job Reports Templates
          • open jobs/candidate report 2011 (excel)
      • Analytics
        • Resumes
          • Source Efficiency
          • Hired Source Efficiency
          • Hiring History
          • Current Applicant Status
          • Historical Applicant Status
          • Applicants for Open Jobs
          • Custom Fields Reports
        • Jobs
          • Opened/Filled Historical Status

FP

  • Worked with Tom on putting together a better-structured testbed

Cool thing:

  • Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.

Phil 6.1.11

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

FGM

  • Submitted my paperwork for class reimbursement.
  • Was able to generate excel docs from sonicats records. Need to save off a few queries (reports?) and export to visibility
    • And make a Recruiting role
    • And add (who?) to the role
    • And make a slideshow.