8:00 – 4:30

• Discussions with John W and Mike C about the new dataset and hours until the end of the FY
• Discussions about integrating with LDAT. Michelle (?) is becoming quite our champion. I demo’s to several people and it looks like we should be able to tie directly into LDAT data
• More autorunning scripts. Could be done! Testing over night.
• 10:45 demo at Anne’s tomorrow.

7:30 – 3:30

• JW is back from vacation
• Mike C is setting up a new ingestor. Hopefully, he’ll be able to run it himself
• Demo today at noon with S14. Will add notes tomorrow
• 4:00 iPhone appointment
• Working on autorunning of scripts

Apparently I can only connect to this log from within the network.  I tried from home a few times and kept getting connection reset.

Thursday:

Steps for preparing strain gauges:

• Warm resin to room temp
• Sand surface that will have SG attached
• Clean with acetone until the Q-tip doesn’t get black anymore
• apply conditioner
• neutralize
• Apply resin and wait for it to dry
• Apply second layer of resin, attach strain gauge and allow to dry
• Test resistance with tester
• Cover with polyurethane
• Protect connections with silicone

Cleaned up code a bit from when I changed it

Friday:

• Second SG stick was ready to use.  Noted a lot of problems with calibration and consistency.
• Phil recommended averaging samples to clean up the signal inconsistency
• Showed it to Clift and he said that the signal wires needed to be shielded because the magnetic field from the motors were causing interference.

Saturday:

• Attached shielded cable to the SGs and Wheatstone bridge.
• This helped a lot with holding the calibration and consistency.
• There are signal wires going from the wheatstone bridge to the amplifiers which are still not shield which may help with lowering the inconsistencies when not in the dead zone as well as it still loses calibration sometimes.
• Averaging the samples is probably still a good idea even if it seems to be working perfectly(which it isn’t now) without it.
• Started reading OpenGL book but haven’t tried any tutorials yet.

7:30 – 4:30

• The strain gauge isn’t broken this morning – let’s see how it works!
• Need to have a ScriptRunnerServlet that actually runs scripts. The current script needs to be moved to PublisherServlet
• Need to add the mechanism for setting up periodic ingestion. Going to use a calendar and time widget to set initial time and then frequency thereafter. Most of the scheduler is working. Spent some time grocking RegExValidator.

8:00 – 4:00

• The sex change went well. I am now known as Phillese :-b
• More scripting/servlet integration. Working!
• Checked out space at Savage Mill
• Built a spare sensor rod (1/2 hr)

• Fixed code so there is only one executive.
• Made inputController the base class for anything that takes strain gauge input and turns it into motor movement.
• IFControl(input force) is a child inputController that turns force into movement speed.
• KFControl(kenetic force) is also a chile of inputController which turns force into displacement positioning.
• Should be set to go once the strain gauge is ready minus a couple tweaks.

• Fixing RCS program so that it only has one executive and many controllers  instead of many executives and few controllers.( almost complete)
• Strain gauge on left side of output motor is messed up.  It was reading 2k instead of 1.2k. I was able to fix it but then when I moved it to collide with the ball again it went off again and was not fixable.
• Probably should route the wire somewhat differently so it doesn’t get pulled on when the rod collides with the ball
• Took a while to figure out why the strain gauge wasn’t working.  I guess the moral is if the bridge is not balanced check the resistance of the strain gauges before going crazy with other things.
• Need to make a second input class to handle the output motors strain gauge events.   Instead of translating force into motion, it will have to translate force into offset from the central position.

7:30 – 5:00

• Adjusted to my moved desk and then was informed that I may be moving back
• Getting servlets to work – roughed out
• Changing the publishing mechanism so that output is published to the DB. The servlet then accesses the db using the path information to determine which output to show

How to setup the web.xml file to allow Tomcat to  access a servlet that your browser can see:

<web-app>
<display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>

<!- declare –>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.fgm.servletSandbox.MyServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<!- map –>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/MyServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app

7:30 – 5:00

• Worked at getting an LDAT account. Couldn’t find a location with account info, so sent MG a note asking for some help.
• Setting up forms demo on Monday
• Big VISIBILITY demo this afternoon
• Working on integrating autoscripting execution with the rest of the scripting functionality. Ran into a problem – the auto run server is different from the remote object server, which screws everything up. Going to have to move over to a servlet architecture

• Made it so movement was based on changing the max speed by a percentage determined by the offset when the bar is pushed or pulled.
• There are some problems with the offset not being consistent.  Going to try to lower the resistance of the strain gauges to see if that helps if not we will probably need to use those other amplifiers.

7:30 – 5:00

• Sent off Dong’s questions to Jim and his other portfolio manager
• Noticed that the LDAT folks had attempted to ingest something, but it didn’t ingest right. Waiting for a ping on that
• Going to work on getting periodic ingestion working – Got the servlet working and the accessor method. Spent freaking forever dealing with odd Date() behavior.
• Morning interview
• Noon performance review process overview – need a charge number

7:30 – 3:30

• Fixed the Remote Object problem from yesterday by changing the flex com.edgeti.EdgeUtils.logger.LoggingEntry so that it references [RemoteClass(alias=”com.fgm.javaUtils.logging.LoggingEntry”)] instead of the edgeti version that’s wrapped up in Visibility3. I was expecting this to cause the Visibility code to barf, but after cleaning and testing, it seems to be fine. Keeping an eye on it though.
• Need to add automatic script running. Using Dong’s com.edgeti.VisibilityServer.Ingestor.AutoIgestorServlet as a template.
• Meeting with Griffith(?) and LDAT. Productive meeting. She’s interested in Visibility as  a way of showing things that they need to. We meet next Wednesday to do more. Need to sign up for an LDAT account.

8:00 – 5:00

• Meeting with S14 with another portfolio manager. Printed out the newest form for Dong to check over
• More work on storing scripts. Added a description field. Need to integrate with mxml. Done
• Odd bug – Getting the following error: Message: Remote Object Fault – Client.Message.Encoding Cannot create class of type  ‘com.edgeti.Utils.logging.LoggingEntry’. Detail: Type ‘com.edgeti.Utils.logging.LoggingEntry’ not found. The thing is, I’m not using edgeti.Utils.logging anywhere, so I wonder where that’s coming from. It should only be in the Visibility3 war, which I’m not referencing anywhere?

8:00 -5:00

• Nothing new at site
• Working on getting a new method in ScriptFacades, but can’t get ScriptingServer to see the output. Grr. Had to close and open the project to get the change detected.
• Got most of the user db interaction handled
• Got started on saving scripts

8:00 -4:00

• Ingested S14 Data
• Noon meeting with Jim M – Got a lot of good stuff. A
• Added list of available scripts and databases to Flex Scripting app