Category Archives: Phil

Phil 10.1.2010

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Absolutely nothing going on at site.
  • Dentist
  • Walked through some testing automation with Dong. Kinda disappointing
  • Found some bugs in PPM user management
  • Wrote up a description of the forecasting project for Keil.
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 2 Episode 2 – Has a really good explanation of target vs. current target and the phases that an event goes through : capture, target, bubble.

Phil 9.30.2010

7:00 – 6:00 FP

  • Machining today. You can reach me at on my cell
    • Finger hinges are done. The U-channel is slightly less than 1/2 inch spacing, so I had to mill that out.
    • Built the base and connected it to the half-finished palm
    • added the finger hinges to the palm and discovered that the ring finger clevis was too close to the index. Moved it over a bit
    • Mounted the fingers
    • Had a fright that I had ordered the wrong hollow rod, but after measuring it and the motor, it looks good.
    • Class tonight.
    • Here’s progress for today:
  • Also filling out expense reports. Done

Phil 9.29.2010

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed the PPM Dong fixed yesterday
  • Need to determine the version(s) of the VISIBILITY applications we have and update the about window.
  • Jeremy is coming by for a beer at 3:30
  • Flex in a Week
    • Day 1 Episode 14
    • Day 1 Episode 15

Phil 9.28.2010

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • 10:30 PPM meeting. Meet Trish at 10:00. Nope cancelled until next week at the same time. End of FY crunch apparently.
  • Adding version box to Ingest Manager, Accounts Manager and Scripting Server. Done. Not sure what to do about the dashboard bug. It’s very difficult to replicate.
  • Back to Flex in a week
    • Day 1 Episode 11
    • Day 1 Episode 12 – The Network Monitor is a nice touch.
    • Day 1 Episode 13
  • Painted our fake conduit

Phil 9.27.2010

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed new PPM. Went through a quick sanity check with Trish, who had *no* suggestions/fixes. I think we’re ready for the demo. Be there tomorrow at 10:00
  • Discovered that Lou Ann is working with CMM. I sent her a hi! note and described VISIBILITY a bit. We’ll see what happens.
  • Looking into the role issue from Friday. Found it. Tables that the user can see are based on loaded tables. If you make a table and then use it in a dashboard, you won’t be able to use it until you log in again. Going to add to the tableList
  • Had to deal with some Eclipse 3.5.1 -> 3.6.0 eclipse issues. First, I forgot that M2_REPO had to be in the project’s link list. Then there were a few POM problems (version stuff mostly), and then there were some issues with access permissions on some files that the Ingest Manager server code was using. Seems to be working now.
  • Added Dong’s version popup to the Data Visualization app. Going to add it to the other apps in the suite as well.

Phil 9.24.2010

7:30 – 4:30VISIBILITY

  • Deployed new PPM swf. Looks like only a few things left to go
    • Fix the title of the PM Manager
    • Add subtotals and grand totals to Financial Request form. That should fix the addition check bug as well
  • Sat down with Masha M to walk through what she’s trying to do with SLA
    • Ingested a new data table and played around with it.
    • Tried to make a new dashboard with the table she loaded. It saved OK, but wouldn’t load in. Permission problem.
  • Working the autosave problem, but with interruptions. Hmmm. Seems to work here
  • Going to add in Dong’s “about” dialog, but on Monday, now that I’ve got everything checked out and running.
  • Talked to Anne. Meeting on Oct 4th(?) am

FGM

  • Finishing performance Eval. Done.

FP

  • Fixing a few things and resubmitting the paper

Phil 9.23.2010

7:30 – 3:30VISIBILITY

  • Meeting with Trish. I have screenshots of the following
    • Budget Center Management still has duplicate entries
    • Financial panels need to be sorted by date first, in ascending order
    • Incorrect inclusion of title on Financial Panel General data
    • Name lists should be sorted by last name. It looks like they are sorted by first
    • Funding request is throwing an amount mismatch warning incorrectly
    • All entry fields in Financial Entry should have “cumulative” tooltip. In addition, “Reported Outlay $” should have “(In Service’s Financial System)”, and PM Actual Outlay $ should have “(Invoiced Work – anything not reflected in Reported)”
    • There should not be a justification brought up for PM Actuals Outlay
    • A Contract Number dropdown in the “Add Fundings” dialog is desired.
  • Walked through Trish’s issues with Dong
  • Tested Dong’s fixes
  • Burned a disk

FP

  • Tom got the sensors wired up and working
  • Rewrote sections of the paper to incorporate kinesthetic feedback
  • Resubmitted paper

Phil 9.21.2010

7:30 – 11:30 VISIBILITY

  • Exchanged email with Mary M who’s with SLA, I think. She’s attempting to upload items and wants to use the Ingest Manager
  • Everything else is working fine. Some use by Anne G and Mary Mof the demo databases
  • Burning new PPM swf to disk

11:30 – 3:30 FP

  • Finished paper
  • Formatting paper for SIGCHI Archival format – done and submitted!

Phil 9.17.2010

8:00 – 12:00 VISIBILITY

  • Data Visualizer running smoothly on site, but also very little use in the middle of the month
  • Rolled out the new BETA swf of PPM for Trish and Chris.
    • Contract info is not showing up in financial entry
    • Financial request POC should be blank
    • NSA Project Manager fields are pulling NSA Financial Manager data
    • Need to add a line for budget totals above financial grids
    • Need to add tooltips to “type” colum entries in financial entries

FP 12:00 – 4:00

  • Working on SigCHI paper.

Phil 9.16.2010

7:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

  • Things are running smoothly on site
  • Nobody is poking around in the Data Navigator right now, which makes me worried about the level of seriousness by the SLA folks
  • Trish and Chris didn’t enter any new user data
  • Talked to dong about the state of the current PPM system, and showed him a few screenshots from onsite.

12:30- 3:30 FP

  • Working on SigChi Paper. Need to finish the description and discussion sections.

Phil 9.15.2010

7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Meeting with Trish and Chris. Rolled out the “release version. This led to several changes being requested. Dong is working on rolling in changes so I can deploy Friday am.
    • Remove description from user registration
    • login should be firstname.lastname. Add a tooltip
    • Users should be able to edit their own user data
    • Make “Save User” button bigger. Says Save Us…
    • If the budget for a year is zero, don’t show or calculate panels
    • TRP Member in financial Data should read “NSA PM Name” and show NSA portfolio Manager
    • Total budget needs to be total budget by year (use a grid rather than a single field)
    • Financial tabs need FT Name and FT Number added to “Year XX” label
    • Make project rows sortable

2:00 – 3:30 FP

Phil 9.13.2010

8:00 – 10:00 VISIBILITY

  • Slow on site. Talked to John Williams. He likes the idea that we’re getting a cloud based Sharepoint Server. Also, the whole SiteWorks deal is that if there is a web developer component to a team, then SiteWorks can’t take any work away from that developer.

10:00 – 11:30

  • Ran cables top hard-wire our computers in because the wifi was too awful to use.

11:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Flex in a week
  • Walked through project setup for PPM going forward with Dong
    • The release version only has pgfeldm as a user (Admin privileges). Database is clean except for budget info (FY10 O&M, procurement, etc)
    • Default build is ProjportfolioMgrBeta.swf
    • Background image says “BETA”
    • Manual copy of the swf to ProjPortfolioMgr.swf when all tests are passed
    • There is a separate build for anything that changes the database. SWC has a background of “ALPHA”, and the java talks to a different database (project_portfolio_dev). This gets built and deployed to a different war file than the current release version so that testing can occur without harming the release version

2:00 – 5:00

  • Approved changes on provisional patent
  • Started on SIGCHI 2011 paper.