8:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Well, I’m back. Fin  vacation. pix are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/21701734@N04/sets/72157627607863835/ if you’re interested.
• Went over what Dong has been working on. We’re going to see if his form work can be used as the basis for the Project Manager’s wizard
• Tried loading up Mike’s code, and discovered that there was a POM file, which did could not find the parent POM.  Waiting for M2 to update indices. Works with the command line/mvnAssist
  • Looks like I was pointing at the default m2 settings.xml file. Re-indexing.
  • Working now
• Mike came over to check in the Java side of the code and help me build it. We installed on Google. About to try it on the phone proper.
• Yay! Success!
• Going over to check on our new desks and talk to Bill

7:00 – 12:00 VISIBILITY

• Day before vacation. I wonder if I’ll be able to mow the lawn or if it will rain? Dong rode the motorcycle in, so my guess is that it will be torrential.
• Cleaning up and documenting
• Added exploding pie charts to the mobile app. THere is one problem that if the user selects the chart while the effect is playing, the “explosion” component of the display becomes confused. There needs to be an effect end event that looks to see if things are valid at the end of the animation.

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Working on multiple select for the data grid. Need to make sure that if the rows are sorted, the selection is either cleared or re-ordered.
• Make the dataField and valueField bindable and connect to all the chart types. Done
• Add a pie chart label function – done
• Time to comment a bit, since some of this is really not all that intuitive…
• Walked through the VisMobScreens with Mike, who got his middleware working. We also discussed what a data input app could look like. Brian was grumpy and uncooperative in this discussion, so we finished it after he left.

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Finishing up commenting the ScrollingChoosers package, then I’m going to start working on getting drilldown to work in the charting
• Need to add some logic to allow for multiple selections without the control key
  • Done for bar chart, working on the others
  • Pie and Column are done, working on DataGrid
  • DataGrid mostly working.
• Talked to Bill D. He needs Dong’s info. I reminded him that the 4 month timeline assumed one month to get development environments up and running, and three months to write, test and document the new code. In other words, three months to write the code. If getting the desks takes three months, then the effort will be for six. This was surprisingly hard to explain.

8:00 – 5:30 (90 min off) VISIBILITY

• Talked to Dong about the “Help” app. He’s going to add in wizards and write up a few scenarios.
• Working out a generic scrolling widget that you pass an ArrayCollection to and that creates the appropriate scrollers – Done
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• Also added a GenericScrollerEvent that takes a data (*) object to pass the results of said scroller around
• Customer flash player is currently 10.3.184.34. Need to retest WebDesk.

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• Brought in the new hand for Tom to play with
• Reviewed the patent application. Looks like it will be submitted on Monday.

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• My 1987 Porsche passed emissions with 30% of the limit on Co2 and 15% of the limit on HC. What were they driving back then? Tanks?
• More scroller work.
  • Added ScrollingDateChooserEvent
  • Added all the edge conditions to handle 12 and 24 hour time
  • Added military and civilian date and time formats
  • Moved code to a separate library and checked into SVN – Mobile/ScrollingChoosers
• Mike’s gotten the Google App Engine talking to web and phone with GraniteDS. Next will be to write some methods that assemble table meta information such as unique counts that the Google Data API doesn’t cover.
• Talked with Bill D. about getting our desks. We sent a *memo* about it!

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Need to do some clarification for Stuart WRT the patent – done
• Need to put together a date picker and then something more general.
• And it looks like I need to move my 401k around a bit.
• Figured out this SQL query again for Mike:
  • select model, count(model) from cars group by model;
• Visit with Bill D. Some paperwork and strategizing with Brian

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Adding a skin to the list scroller so it can have nice rounded corners
• And that took all day, but it looks cool:
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8:00 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

• It’s now dark at 5:45. Time for the alarm clock. Sigh
• Bill D. is off for the rest of the week, so I get two full days of development. Yay!
• Adding ESRI mapping to VisMob
  • Resource Center: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/index.html
  • Bing maps Key info:
    • Application name: VISIBILITY Mobile
    • url: http://fgmdev.com
    • type: Mobile
    • key: AoJF63MmI5GfKEYUz7CmRYyZZrutbU4ayv05r42o1ssTO0MIon84aXoyebGN55LS
  • ESRI map is in and running!
• Got a scrolling time widget working. Need to do a date widget and then figure out how to generalize. Maybe. It’s not much code.
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8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Continuing with the wireframes
• Got the charts in a ViewStack. It turns out that you need to explicitly include the mx.swc and the sparkskins.swc.
• Making sure that all this runs on the phone still – and it does! Dropdown menus don’t work though. They don’t seem to fire  events.
• I think it should be possible to make a popup rollover dialog using lists. Will try that tomorrow.
• Had a chat with Bill D. He’s going to try to get us a couple of desks at NBP 324.

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

• Starting on VisMob
• Java API for Google Spreadsheets: http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/data/2.0/developers_guide_java.html
• It also looks like data can be accessed using sql-like (Google Visualization) commands: http://blog.ouseful.info/2009/05/18/using-google-spreadsheets-as-a-databace-with-the-google-visualisation-api-query-language/
• Went over the VisMob concept with Mike and Dong. Putting together a wireframe
• Nothing new on site. Sent around a few emails

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• We have power!
• Found out why the map app isn’t working. The Google maps flex swf tries to download another swf which iOS doesn’t allow. Here’s the workaround: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Display_Map_in_iPhone_App-18959.html
• Got the workaround behaving. Also found a new book on iOS/Flex development – http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920021117. I have the PDF, if anyone’s interested.
• Walked through the creation of VISIBILITY MOBILE. It will get its data from a remote object that talks to our DB or Google Spreadsheets. Should be very cool

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• More Google Maps
• Downloaded the SDK, which contains the relevant SWCs from here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/
• Uploaded map_1_20.swc and map_flex_1_20.swc to the fgmdev repo
  • The SDK includes two SWC files: a Flex version for use within FlexBuilder (or with the free Flex SDK), and a non-Flex version for use within Flash CS3. The Flex *.swc is denoted with a _flex suffix in the filename.
• Can’s get the map to load in the phone as it does on the emulator. Stripping out as much as possible. Going to install the debugger components next, I think.
• Went over with Brian to talk to Bill D. about funding. I laid out who has what skillset to get what they want done, which is more than they want to fund, but I think they’ll go back and re-examine.