Category Archives: Phil

Phil 11.12.2010

8:00 – 10:00, 3:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

Clift had forwarded some questions about ingesting data from Paul O. I described how to ingest an excel spreadsheet and pointed to the Ingest Manager tutorials. Paul would also like an Access ingestor. Not sure if it would be as straightforward as setting a jdbc access jar and running the same commands we would otherwise.
- It could be relatively straightforward – here’s a website describing same: http://www.easysoft.com/applications/microsoft-access/jdbc-odbc.html
And FGM’s mail servers are down. Whee.

10:00 – 3:00FP

Adding in additional axis. Working out which should be x and which should be Y.
When I get the Y-axis working, I’ll need to reset the clamp on the fingers so that they stay centered around the “hand”, Which is going to need some additional graphics to show. We’ll start with that.
Graphics are done. Working on getting the collision for the hand to be the average of the finger X-axis collision forces.

Phil 8.11.2010

7:30 – 10:30VISIBILITY

Nothing new on site, but two meetings scheduled for Friday

10:30 – 2:00 OVERHEAD

9:30 meeting at Savage Mill
Worked on the redesign of the office space to accommodate the sprinkler system

2:00 – 3:30FP

Got the fingers working pretty well. There is a lag of about 0.25 sec or so between collision and response, but it’s good enough to see that things will work.
Need to add an x-axis in with collision response next. Maybe make a maze of gray balls.

Phil 8.10.2010

8:00 -10:00 VISIBILITY

Rescheduled meeting with Anne and others for Friday at 9:30
Discussed Sharepoint stuff with Kiel. We’re tentatively thinking about having him write a proof of concept app that has Flex talk to Sarepoint via jdbc

10:00 – 4:00 FP

Integrating fingers with graphics. Changed it so I’m passing references to the entire PointMass through the dictionary. Now drawing fingers and the target.
Fingers move appropriately in the graphics, and collide with the target. Going to add feedback tomorrow.

Phil 8.9.2010

7:30 – 10:00 VISIBILITY

When checking over the query logs this morning, found that Paul O. Had spent most of Friday using VISIBILITY. He made 133 queries in 9 or so hours, spending most of his time on the LOTR and cars examples
Went over status of PPM with Dong. We’re going to aim for Wednesday to walk through the new changes.

10:00 – 3:30 FP

Working on reading the sensors. They seem to be working well. Working on calibration code – done
Making a bi-linear normalizing, since there seems to be a big difference between pushing up on a sensor and pushing down.
Update graphics to show new axis

Phil 8.6.2010

7:30 – 11:30 VISIBILITY

Meeting with Trish and Chris
- Tabs in Financial Entry should read “Year 1″, Year 2”, “Year 3” etc., to avoid confusion between appropriation year and budget year
- Still not starting FY in October
- Whenever a reported obligation out outlay is less than 99.9% of the (calculated) goal (currently not visible), a dialog with Trish’s questions should come up. There is shared data between obligation and outlay reports for a given month.
- Dialog should be smart enough to know if an obligation or outlay value is not applicable in a dialog, since one or the other or both may be under the estimate.
Responded to Paul O’s questions about how to interact with the report builder.
Went over the meeting results with Dong, and gave him Trish’s “5 questions”.
Went over the rough layout of the visibility system with Kiel.

11:30 – 3:30 FP

Working on fingers. Building the ServoMotorController class. Done.
Had to wait for the servoController class to initialize before getting the handle to the motors.
Had to initialize and engage all axis in the ServoController. I could do this inside the ServoMotorController.
Need to adjust speeds and ramps for the servos

Phil 8.4.2010

7:30 – 9:30 – VISIBILITY

Made and account for Paul O. and sent him an email describing VISIBILITY
Sent Clift a writeup describing my understanding of the Paul O. project.

9:30 – 2:30FP

Going to start with holding torque on the wrist and then work on talking to the fingers
Got all the motors working, and moving to a home position
Built a servo motor controller class, but still trying to figure out how to deal with up to 8 axis.

2:30 – 4:00 OH/Savage Mill

Meeting with Larry and Steve to go over the new space

4:00 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

Put together CD for Brian WRT CATWALK billing

Phil 8.3.2010

7:30 – 3:30

Hope to finish up MvnAssist today. Got my fingers, toes and eyes crossed.
- Had to change the source directory in the .actionScriptProperties file to get package names agreeing between FB and maven, but libraries work now.
- Tested Non-server apps. Still working
- Got Air apps incorporated. They compile, but don’t run. Don’t know enough about Air to really pursue this, so I’m going to leave this be.
- Produced new plugin. We’re at version 1.9.0. Checked in. You’ll need to have the following components set in your maven settings.xml file

<profile>
<id>VisibilityProfile</id>

<properties>
<javaVersion>1.6</javaVersion>
<flexVersion>3.7.1</flexVersion>
<flexMojoArchetype>3.7.1</flexMojoArchetype>
<flexMojoArchetypeRepo>http://repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/public</flexMojoArchetypeRepo>
<mvnAssistUrl>http://viz-n.com/mvnAssist</mvnAssistUrl>
</properties>

</profile>

Seeing if I can get subversion working with this install. Done.

Phil 8.2.2010

7:30 – 4:30

Working on the security error for launching swfs. Well that’s interesting. After checking for differences (and finding none) I did a clean and rebuild to find that everything is working. Hmmmm.
Adding MXML Application. Done, and it works. Can’t seem to get the html-template to create automatically
To specify the browser for your App, Window>Preferences>General>Web Browser.
Fixed the path information when assembling build-path information from the pom
Put together a technical drawing for a bulkhead
Did a little furniture browsing

Phil 7.30.2010

7:30 – 5:00

Demo’d new version of PPM
- Entry forman need to extend years to match the number of years in the appropriation goals
- Summarize by appropriation, and add the appropriation to the summary title
- FY line needs to be between Sept and Oct. (or we need to switch to tabs)
- The number of years there is funding for should dictate the number of entry forms there are. If the budget has a few years where the funds are zero, those don’t need to be shown. There is at least one project that has a budget for 8 years
- Need to be able to add FY years to an existing project
- If the PM doesn’t hit a goal, a dialog needs to pop up asking why. There are apparently 5 questions that will be provided to us next week
Walked through changes with Dong. He thinks this will take two weeks., and is going to take the opportunity to rewrite the financial entry form.
Filled out radio expense report. I am getting *nothing* done today…
We got fgmdev.com on Steadfast! Looks nice and fast.
More MvnAssist
- Putting a POM inside an existing project does not work. I can’t get it to build with maven
- It looks like the installation of FB4 has broken flexmojos. They look for template files that they can’t find.
- Going back to trying to import working project files, since nothing else looks like it will work.
- It looks like the problem may be tied to the compiler settings. When I try to see them, I get a null pointer error. Also the build path window flags an error as well
- Not making the path to the pom files correctly. Need to include the version and other bits when assembling the string in PomDom.flexMojosStandin().
- I may be getting grief from the server settings. Falling back to creating a non-server project. That compiles and runs. I have to make the html container, but FB puts that in for you. There is a security problem:
  - SecurityError: Error #2148: SWF file file:///C:/Users/phil.feldman/Desktop/test/myProject2/bin-debug/Main.swf cannot access local resource file:///C:/Users/phil.feldman/Desktop/test/myProject2/bin-debug/framework_4.0.0.14159.swf. Only local-with-filesystem and trusted local SWF files may access local resources.

Phil 7.29.2010

7:30 – 5:30

Helped Clift out with MvnAssist
Walked through PPM with Dong. Burned a CD for deployment tomorrow
Back to MvnAssist. Built a zip inflator. turns out that you have to build the directories and set the permissions on them with File() before you put the files in with FileOutputStream.
Worked on the design of the new office with Brian

Phil 7.28.2010

7:30 – 4:00

Coordinating with Clift about getting Flex projects working with Maven
Can’t get a flexmojo archetype for Flex to behave with Flashbuilder4. The compiler throws a null pointer error and neither Dong or I can really see why. I’m going to try a different strategy and see if I can just pull down a full basic project as a zip file, change some things and use that.
Ran all the properties files through dom4j. They all still work
Wrote a file downloader
Tomorrow, write an unzip method.

Phil 7.27.2010

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

John Gresh is leaving S2F
Walking through all the project creation/updates for MvnAssist
Did a quick test of flexmojos:flashbuilder. It couldn’t find com.adobe.flexunit:flexunit:0.85 and choked. Odd, because it’s right there in repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/flexgroup
Added some e4x capabilities to PomDom, since don4j’s is throwing exceptions. You can now search for an element with a fully qualified path name, and also get the fully qualified path name from the Element
Went to Savage Mill to check out the space. Need to put something together in Sketchup

Phil 7.26.2010