Category Archives: Phil

Phil 12.28.2011

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Watching the OReilly video OpenGL and 3D in HTML5. If you have an ACM membership, you can watch it from your Safari bookshelf. You do have your FGM-provided ACM membership, don’t you?
  • Looks like picking is going to be an issue, but we can do it old-school: http://www.khronos.org/message_boards/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3336
    • If you use C3DL, picking is supported. Hmmm.
  • Learning WebGL cookbook
  • WebGL Cheat Sheet (API as of February 2010)
  • glMatrix (appears to be the fastest library?)
  • C3DL looks promising. It even explains why Mike’s firefox WebGL was turned off. Going to read this one tomorrow.
  • 11:00 meeting with Clif S. and his gang
    • Showed the various VISIBILITY apps. It looks like they should be useful
    • Discussed WebGL development option

Phil 12.27.11

8:00-4:00 VISIBILITY

  • It’s going to rain today and my new hardware aches. This “feeling the weather in the bines” thing might be real after all.
  • Working on a simple animated gwt app. I’m trying for this.
  • Having all kinds of problems with our server. Using vi on a 20 line file takes between 4 and 12 seconds to open. Tom is opening a ticket with Steadfast.net.
    • It appears that this is a problem with Steadfast. They are doing some hardware migration that is messing with us
  • I have the gwt app running in hosted mode, but I can’t get it running as a war file. I get an error saying that the app may need to be recompiled. Hmmm.
  • Did make contact with Clif – his folks are coming over Wednesday at 11:00. Didn’t get ahold of Tangie.

Phil 12.26.11

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Happy Boxing Day!
  • Tried sending an email to Clif S. At all the various permutations of his name and none of them seem to be right. Hmmm.
  • fgmdev.com is still responding really slowly. http://www.fgmdev.com:8080 seems quick though, so the Tomcat server is running well, but lampp isn’t?
    • At 9:30, things are considerably faster.
    • At 9:31 things are slow again
    • Had to start up svn. What is going on with our server!!!?
  • Starting with the gwtgl documentation.
    • And while we’re at it, time for a new version of Eclipse (3.7.1 – Indigo). Trying a 64-bit version again… I also copied it to fgmdev/exchange/EclipseDistros if you don’t want to wait 17 minutes for the download
    • Tried the tutorial, which didn’t work (and from the comments, doesn’t work for many people). Checked out the code from https://gwtgl.googlecode.com/svn/. That kindof works…
      • Only check out GwrGl and GwtGl-techDemos. GwtGL-examples doesn’t seem to have anything in it, and competes for the same namespace as techDemos (which checks out as “examples”)
  • New version of GWT In Action is available on fgmdev/exchange/Books

Phil 12.23.11

9:00 – 4:00

  • Prepping for interview. It went well. They want to visualize lots of data.
  • In thinking about the above, I’ve started to worry about the graphing capability within GWT, which is not really even as good as Flex. I’m starting to think that we could use GWT for what it’s good at – text fields, comboboxes and such, while developing standalone charts in WebGL (3D). The reason for this is that once we’re in the 3D realm, drawing cool things actually becomes easier. Shiny is done with reflection mapping as opposed to layuers of vector art. Hardware accelerated 3d is capable of showing tens of thousands of points in a frame – orders of magnitude more than 2D systems
  • I asked Mike to try putting a gwtgl app inside jebgl to see if its possible

Phil 12.22.11

9:30 – VISIBILITY

  • The days are getting longer!
  • Downloaded SmartGWT. I talked to Dong about the risks of mixing them, as well as the advantages/disadvantages of each. He thinks that GWT is easier to work with.

Phil 12.21.11

9:30 – 2:30 VISIBILITY

  • Hmm. Can’t seem to edit an entry when using IE. Odd. May poke at this later…
  • Heading over to the fort for the first time since I broke my leg. Hopefully my glasses are still there
    • Talked to Tangie. We’re going to try to find some number (10-ish) of non TST users that we can get to enter data before the end of the year. If that works, then we’ll try to get all the non TST folks by Jan 17th.
  • Went poking around looking for drawing capabilities in GWT. Canvas is supported by GWT and appears to be supported in all browsers starting with IE9

Phil 12.19.11

9:00 – 1:00 VISIBILITY

Phil 12.14.11

9:00 – 12:00, 2:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

  • Spent about 30 minutes doing laps of the house without crutches at around 7:00 this morning, then had to lay down for about an hour to let the leg recover. It wasn’t pretty, but much better than yesterday, when I could only stand that for a few minutes.
  • Now that I have GWT working, I’m going to go through the book (GWT in Action) unless someone has a better suggestion
  • Spent an unreasonably long time getting a request for a doctor’s note that will allow me to charge hours while on disability
  • Tom brought up the laptop. I have two screens! Woot.

Phil 12.13.11

8:00 – 12:00, 4:00 – 5:00VISIBILITY

  • Setting up a developer account with admin privileges on my home machine since I can’t launch the GWT server otherwise. Yay! Everything is working. Going to revisit the StockWatcher RPC tutorial to get back up to speed.
    • All working.
  • Asked Tom to bring up my laptop, since mine is broken. There’s also a DigiKey order here.

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