9:00 – 5:00

• Remarkably, it’s snowing again. So work will be interspersed with shoveling. Sort of the lunchtime ride
• Spent about ½ hour getting everything set up, but everything seems to be working now. Note: don’t deploy! The edge repo is not visible! Seeing if Mike can help with the VPN.
• Now that group load is working, going to work on group save
• Got the saved group dashboards showing. Need to know which context – group or individual- is selected so that the appropriate save can be made (addDashboard() vs. addGroupDashboard(). Done!
• Look through load to make the decision on which chart to display based on strings? There is a lot more going on with QueryWidgets and TrendWidgets. This may be a better thing for Mike to take a look at?
• Need to make sure that user roles are used when getting the data from a table. It’s possible with saved dashboards to get at information that you shouldn’t see.

11:00 – 4:00

• Spent the morning shoveling my folks out.
• Infotek meeting was canceled. May reschedule or try as a phone call.
• Working on Group Save/Load. Load is done. Save next.

11:00 – 3:30

• Snowpocalypse. Not easy getting in today.
• Rolling in Mike’s changes – all the changes work, though we lost which chart is being shown on the load dashboard. Need to look at that
• Deployed to Laureldemo and burned a disk for S2F
• Back to group dashboards – nearly have the group dashboard pull working. After that, I need to be able to do the save, which is going to need to use the pull for the categories.
• Removed some duplicate code. Dong and I are kind of stepping on each others work %-b
• Helped Mike with maps. He’s up and running now.

7:30 – 12:30, 2:30 – 6:30

• Quiet day, waiting for the snow to start.
• Talked to Dong about how to do alerts. We talked about having a table (table_alerts?) having an id, state (RELEASE, DEBUG, DISABLED, etc), time to execute, and a script. After poking around for a while, I think jython might be good for this. Here’s a description of how to call the jython interpreter on some python code within java: http://www.seanet.com/~bugbee/python/jython4.html. More later, after the group save.
• Got Mike’s additions to the code that fix the number/string issue. Need to incorporate and validate. Also spent some time corresponding about the KF system project.
• More work on group save. Needed to change how the test code created a user with groups, which led to some other things, etc. The next steps are going to be to build a list of all groups that the user can ‘see’, and then compare them against the FlexTree that comes back from the getGroupDashboardTree() method. Which means I need a way to look through the FlexTree. Monday.
• Leaving early because of snow.
• Worked from home, trying to get code talking to the SpaceNavigator. I can talk to it, but I can’t get any readings. Grr.

7:30 – 4:00

• Worked on getting “go visibility” working
• Adding in group dashboard save. While I’m at it, adding in some better testing for UsersAndRoles.java
• Got the “AddGroupDashboard()” method working and tested. Next is to return a group tree like the user tree. Can’t use the getDashboardTree() method becuase we’re federating across groups rather than users. The groups returned need to be the one’s that are visible to the user as well, so that makes things different.

8:30 – 9:30, 3:30 -6:30

• John W asked about the rollout of the new version, I said that we were waiting to nail down a few bugs.
• Spent most of the day discussing Powergrid IP with lawyers WRT Nintendo
• Interview
• Got Tom started on the 3dConnexion SDK
• Setting up dashboards so that they can be saved to group (roles) that the user belongs to instead of just the user. I’m going to have to add a “groups” column to the table_dashboards, which means:
  • Adjust table_dashboards. Hopefully, createTables() can be modified to fix easily
  • Adjust TableInfoObject on the Flex and Java sides to include groups
  • Adjust methods that use TableInfoObject.

7:30 – 4:00

• Verifying Mike’s changes
• Adding “Comments” section to VisContainer. That way comments are associated with a dashboard and not data. Done. Weird issues with html not properly being rendered in ‘escaped’ form in vis2, even though it was handled just fine in the same class in my sandbox. Sigh.

8:00 – 3:30

• Nothing new onsite
• Rolling in Mike’s changes. Test out on Laureldemo
• Making a TextPanel that will work with text using the current TextArea until Adobe gets TextFlow working properly – or until their documentation can explain to me how to effectively reload a TextFlow object. Grrrrr.
• May take off early to look at countertops
• Called Anita Komlodi about PhD program
• So in 1/2 day, I was able to make my text entry work with a RichTextEditor, instead of a week banging on TextFlow. Going to work on rolling in component.
• Webex meeting at 1:00
• Talked to Bill Howard about oceanic data. He said put some fake data together for the demo. Later.
• Integrate TextSaveStatePanel tomorrow.

8:00 – 5:30

• Showed John W how to use the ‘like’ SQL command
• Found out some about LDAT. It does look like something useable
• Took 90 min off to deal with kitchen construction issues
• Starting on the TextPanel – Got it so that I can save and load a panel, but if I try to save a panel that has been reloaded, the <span> information does not change…

8:00 – 4:00

• Gave a link to the edgeDemo account to Jeff
• Got VAccordion working
• S14 meeting at 1:15
• Need to do a text box that ties into visibility desktops.
• Got VAccordion working. Had a bit of a problem with the left-right alignment, but got that dealt with by setting textAlign in the VBoxes
• Used mvnAssist to deploy flexlib 2.4 to our repo

8:00 – 5:00

• Added ‘validation’ XML to the emplyees_standard details tab
• Trying to find out what FACTS is
  • AOC Solutions (http://www.aocsolutions.com/) appears to have done some work integrating with FACTS:
  • In 2008, following DIA’s migration to its new core accounting system (FACTS), AOC upgraded these interfaces with a new, centralized, web-based translator that today provides DIA with an automated interface from each feeder system into FACTS. A web-based interface also was developed by AOC to integrate source accounting data from the Department of State into FACTS for the Defense Attaché.
  • More links
    • http://www.dfas.mil/more/dfasfreedomofinformationactprivacyact/dfaspia/PIAODS.pdf
    • http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=koo&q=%22Financial+Accounting+and+Corporate+Tracking+System%22&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=
• More playing with Mike’s changes to VISIBILITY. Mike called and we worked through the issues. He’s going to work on things, and I’m going to get VAccordion working using TextFlow, which has to be good for something….
• Found a bug in MvnAssist and fixed it. All repositories are now declared in the settings.xml file
• Worked for an hour or so finding a good input device we can repurpose for the kinetic interface that we can adapt. Found some good stuff.

7:30 – 5:00

• Tried to replicate John’s problem with no luck. For me at least, everything is working fine.
• Installing Mike’s changes.
• Now that I know that TextFlow can’t, well, actually *flow* text, I’m trying to figure out what might be a reasonable solution. Maybe a text widget for annotating items in VISIBILITY.
• Numerous meetings
  • Theresa Young
    • FACTS is the Financial Accounting and Corporate Tracking System. It’s part of FMS – Financial Management Solutions. Need to find out what platform it’s based on. It’s a way of tracking money as it moves from target through obligated to outlay
    • All interaction is through a web interface. No one seems to know about a machine-machine interface.
    • If we can get a ‘BF-5’ person, they can explain more info as it pertains to S14
    • BF-5 is the ‘general ledger’. There are some good people that we can talk to
    • Janet Davis -chief
    • Arlin White Sr. Exec
    • Alex Smith – Sr. Exec to Comptroler
  • Impromptu demo of VISIBILITY to Jeff Cooper and his boss(?). They want to use VISIBILITY to do something with their dataset. Could be as high as 100,000 rows

7:30 – 8:30, 11:30 – 3:30

• Had to go choose floor tile this morning.
• Working on text flow. There is definitively *not* the capability to flow around a graphic or other component (http://blogs.adobe.com/tlf/2008/11/welcome-to-the-text-layout-fra.html). WTF!? Grr. Need to work on an alternative.
• Exchanged email with Yoland about Visibility capabilities, particularly WRT GIS and connected graphs.
• There seems to be some problem with IE downloading excel spreadsheets under certain conditions. Will check out tomorrow.
• Fixed a problem with the querybuilder where strings were not being converted into xml correctly

8:00 – 4:00

• Spent some time with Dong walking through using Interfaces for what he’s trying to do. Not sure if it worked because-
• Meeting with Anne and Yonald Chery of SID, 10:30 – 1:00. Which I had totally forgotten about. Had to scramble a bit to get Appboard running on my box and get it over to the site.
• Anne called. The demo went well. Apparently there are some next steps.
• More work with Dong, chasing down the reason why wrapped display objects had no parent.

8:00 – 4:00

• More Freaking Fantastic FlexText!
• 1:00 meeting with Theresa Norris Ops1 3N075-1 – Postponed to next Tuesday
• Dong needed to be able to delete ObjectWrappers, so I added WrapperManager.removeWrapper(name:String)
• Making progress on TextFlow – can now flow text between two objects
• My car is leaking radiator fluid. Getting it towed.