7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

• Cool thing of the day – VMWare will be offering integrated cloud development. Initially it will support java and run as an Eclipse plugin
• Added BSD License information to MavenAssist
• To sftp to the sourceforge MavenAssist site using winSCP, do the following:
  • sftp://frs.sourceforge.net
  • user: <username>,mavenassist
  • password
• Flex in a week
  • Day 4 Episode 9
  • Day 4 Episode 10 – Transitions are *hugely* improved over Flex3.
• Off to midterm!

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Everything is running fine on site. All the new code is up, and no complaints.
• Had to write up a justification for Tom to John W. I said that he was working on the Database Servlet, and depending on needs would probably be working on a continuous build process next.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 4 Episode 4 – nice feature: Using a ViewStackas a data provider will allow a TabBart or ButtonBar (mx or spark) to read the labels of the Viewstack’s components and build the bar automatically.
  • Day 4 Episode 5
  • Day 4 Episode 6
  • Day 4 Episode 7
  • Day 4 Episode 8
  • Day 4 Episode 9
• Set up MvnAssist as a project on sourceforge: http://mavenassist.sourceforge.net/

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• Deployed new versions of Data Viz, Ingest Manager, Account Manager and Scripting Server. Verified that they were, in fact, new.
• Flex In a week
  • Day 3, Episode 10 – The data wizard did not work. Not sure if it’s worth the extra complexity, either. MXML takes care of this task pretty well.
  • Day 4, Episode 1
  • Day 4, Episode 2
  • Day 4, Episode 3

8:00 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

• Took Pat off the VISIBILITY accounts
• Added SLA privileges to Anne
• It looks like there is some progress in getting Matt his data
• Adam responded to my note about adding logging. So at least we’re all up to date. Not sure what to do until they want to start adding in data
• Interviewed Christine Alfano
• Flex in a week
  • Day 3 Episode 3
  • Day 3 Episode 4
  • Day 3 Episode 5
  • Day 3 Episode 6
  • Day 3 Episode 7 – Ok, two-way binding is both cool and easy 🙂

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Send a note to Adam, Trish and Murph that we’ve added logging, so it’s possible to get the trending information that was asked for in the demo
• Coordinated with Dong over MvnAssist
• Took some pictures of the space and surroundings for Keil’s website
• Writing up short descriptions of the apps for the website
  • Data Navigator – done
  • Ingest Manager – done
  • Scripting – done
  • Accounts Manager – done
  • Automated online webzine – not sure what to do about this…
• Flex in a week
  • Day 3 Episode 2

8:00 – 3:00VISIBILITY

• Tried to deploy the new version of PPM, but the properties files (only!) were corrupted. Restored the previous version (which was reloading the war, and updating the swfs – need to take a snapshot before an update from now on). Came back here to discover all the files were fine. So I’ve zipped it up and burned it to disk for take 2.
• Meeting with Matt H. and Anne G. at 1:00 today.
  • Meeting went well Anne will try to get some data out of one of the databases we’re interested in once she gets her account reactivated. We’ll put together a demo based on that data. Explained the funding issues to Matt, and he’s willing to go to bat for us. The demo will help.
• Burning new versions of VISIBILITY (Data Vis, Scripting, etc) to bring in, since I’ll be there a while today.
• Asked Keil to infuse the fgmdev.com index page with awesomeness.
• Day 3 Episode 1 – installing the project file and my OS just. Gave. Up. Rebooting.

8:00 – 4:00VISIBILITY

• Set up a preliminary Meeting with LTC Mike H. to demonstrate VISIBILITY for Friday am.
• Talked to Dong about the ChangeLog query builder component.
• S33P Meeting
  • Brian, Phil, Murph, Hoop, Bill, Dave.
  • Intent is to hand off the use of the tool to Capt. Anglin(sp?), but to keep foot in for funiding and requirements
  • Suggestion is to have Trish come out and we can record her using the tool
  • “Suggest Feature” button. Brings up a dialog so that requests can be stored then later evaluated for priority
  • Training is highest priority, along with getting FY11 data entered. We offered to help with that, since it would give us use of the system in its targeted environment with actual data.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 2 Episode 9
  • Day2 Episode 10

8:00 – 9:00 pm

• Masha M. Is still poking around in VISIBILITY
• Talked with Frank G. about Dong and VISIBILITY. Explained that Dong had been on Catwalk, but moved to SENSIAC when the money dried up. Then I showed Frank the current state of VISIBILITY, which he liked a lot. He’s going to see if S2F would be interested in a financial entry system like S33P.
• Dong is having a problem with building MySqlIf. Among the problems, it looks like selectNode is working too simplistically. Switched to findNodeByFullName(), which needed to be tweaked as well.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 2 Episode 5
    • You can now set conditional breakpoints. Right click on the breakpoint, select “properties”, and then set the condition (i.e. “foo > 10”);
  • Day 2 Episode 6
  • Day 2 Episode 9
• Helped Keil out with some remote object and warfile building
• Flex Users Group
  • Presentation by Chris Gemignani of Juce Analytics. They have developed a set of open-source libraries for handling large sets of data client-side in Flex. The product is called JuceKit (http://www.juicekit.org/)
  • JuceKit is  built on the flare actionscript library (http://flare.prefuse.org/), which is also a good resource. Nice high performance as well.
  • Another very cool thing was  protovis, which was written by the guy who wrote flare. It’s all in javascript and looks amazingly good. It runs in Firefox and Chrome, but doesn’t in IE. Not sure about the others.
  • Juce Analytics is starting to use Maven to do their builds. Apparantly they’ve gottenthings working well with FB4? I got Chris G’s contact information, and will pursue – (chris.gemignani@juiceanalytics.com, phone: 571.205.4789)

7:30 – 3:30

• Deployed the new PPM. Tested the user management with the real data. All seems to be well.
• 10:30 PPM meeting – wnt well. More notes later
• We’ll need data logging and mining for PPM. Talked to Dong about this a bit. THis might be a nice opportunity to build a small tool entirely in Flex4. I’m thinking that it should build the python script and set up ingestion so that the visualizer can plot something meaningful.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 2 Episode 3
  • Day 2 Episode 4 – cool thing for the day – FB will stub out your result handler from a Service. Just code complete ater the ‘result = “”‘ element, and it will provide a generated name for the method. Hover over the function name and click when it becomes a link. Then FB will stub out the method.

7:30 – 3:30

• Meeting with Anne and the folks responsible for the OG reporting
• Got a parking ticket. Whee.
• Burned Dong’s new PPM to disk
• Wrote up notes.

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.

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