Category Archives: Phil

Phil 11.12.2009

7:30 – 5:00

  • Deployed latest version at the fort and turned off the old VISIBILITY app
  • Make it so “clear text” clears the console for the selected tab
  • Add “Step 1 of 3, 2 of, 3… to Create Project”
  • Keep from importing yourself in the pom navigator? Or at least post an alert with a warning
  • Do not inset multiple identical dependencies with pom navigator
  • Look for the [ERROR] string in the output. There are two cases. The first is where there is an error that does not cause a build failure. These should be stored in a list and sent to the “Problems” plugin. The other is an “[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE”. This should store the lines that follow the error and present them in a dialog.
  • Spent the rest of the day getting the flexbuilder plugin to actually get its help printed to the console window.

Phil 11.10.2009

7:30 -3:30

  • Needed to make a few changes to the details xml, but that was it. Autoingestors are working, proxy is behaving. Will take down VISIBILITY1 on Thursday
  • Fixed a subtle bug in tree view that would have redundant labels if the order of strings provided did not go from simpler to more complex
  • Adding backticks to quote out column headers so that they can be reserved words – done

Phil 11.9.2009

8:00 – 4:30

  • Spent most of the morning rearranging data (well, the names of the data, anyway) for Pat
  • Looked into why roles vanish sometimes. Barring learning something new tomorrow, it’s because when a new role is added, the old roles are deleted, which in turn causes the mapping tables to get deleted as well, since the numbers may change. IN other words, it’s a desired feature
  • Made it so that which tab is the default in the QueryBuilder settable by editing the setupXml file. Mike had a confusing experience, which we should keep from happening…

Phil 11.6.2009

7:30 – 4:30

  • Spent most of the day nailing down the SSL problem. It turns out that the problem was that the keystore that the Tomcat server was depending on before the box was bounced on Tuesday PM was no longer where Tomcat expected it. This meant that SSL/amfsecure didn’t work any more. In chasing this down, The SAs turned off SSL from the proxyand enabled http, amf would work inside the enclave, while https was still running outside. THis was fine with Firefox, but not IE. So after a day of running around, we got a keystore running on the Edge box that Tomcat now points to explicitly, and turned on SSL from the proxy to the edge box. Tat fixed it
  • Deployed a new version of Visibility with some bug fixes and the ability to alias in Details, which should make things *really* interesting when all those pieces are changed. Ah, well
  • Spent some time with Tom trying to get him set up with MvnAssist. His system hung on the ingestion. Not sure why.

Phil 11.5.2009

7:30 – 4:00

  • Set up the xml for the 4 details tables that S2F is interested in
  • Discovered that VISIBILITY is still not working in IE. Waiting on a fix
  • Got the tree problem fixed
  • Back to the fort to work on the SSL problem. Burned a disk for the new version to deploy while I’m there

Phil 11.4.2009

7:30 – 5:30

  • Came in to a broken VISIBILITY2. It looks like the proxy server is no longer routing requests to the edge server. The old domain still works, but I can’t get the endpoints to work. My guess is that the fix is going to take a while, since the last person who fixed the proxy is gone. It took most of the day, but all is fixed.
  • Discussed the new file layout for VIS2. We will be on full auto-ingest with the legacy VISIBILITY turned off.
  • Seeing if I can figure out how to get the following to show up properly in a tree view: foo, foo_bar. Right now, only foo_bar will show.

Phil 11.3.2009

7:30 – 3:30

  • Added an “extended” attribute to the details xml that allows for a different name to be used than what’s in the actual data. When the default is created, the default “label” is copied over to the extended attribute, since both are needed now. It is getting pretty damn brittle.
  • Attended Anne’s presentation to Bill Crumm. Went well, and he liked it, but apparantly there is the issue of some “agency solution” that’s coming down the pike in 2 years that needs to be addressed.
  • Wrote up my three concepts for my 20%

Phil 11.2.2009

7:30 – 4:00

  • Added languages to the details section
  • Fixed shift-click so that multiple selection works as well as ctrl-click
  • Set the “Details” tab to be active initially
  • Fixed FlexTreeObject so that selects can go up parents to the root

Phil 10.30.2009

8:00 – 4:00

  • Checked in with John W. So far it looks like the only thing to do next is to arrange the details hierarchy within columns. We’ll meet on Monday to make the changes, since Pat is not in today.
  • Going to try and build Visibility2 only using MvnAssist – getting very close. Library projects build in maven, but not Flexbuilder, and applications build (and link to repo SWCs) but the regular controls don’t seem to be available.

Phil 10.29.2009

7:30 – 2:30

  • Need to look into the right-click “print” to see what’s going on
  • Write a note to mike about using column data to produce bar charts by value – done
  • Change logic so that selecting “No Table Selected” causes a “get Tables” event – done
  • Change the title of exported spreadsheets – done
  • Lunch meeting
  • Deploy new version at S2F

Phil 10.28.2009

7:30 -3:30

  • Deployed the new version and made John happy. A first!
  • Had to go back because of permissions problems, then Pat got confused about a table name
  • Integrated a few things with the Trend widget so that spreadsheet values can have “$”, “,”, etc.

Phil 10.26.2009

7:30 -3:30

  • Ugh. Rain.
  • Sent a response back to Mike K, asking him to look at adding thresholds and status displays to the trend widget.
  • Testing the fixes from yesterday, then burning a disk
  • Roles still isn’t quite right – fixed. The recursive sort was checking to see if there were children first before evaluating if the current node met the conditionsl
  • Verify that selecting a new table clears the query string – yep

Phil 10.26.2009

7:30 – 4:00

  • Fixing bugs in Visibility::
    • Clear the query when the tab becomes active. Lingering queries are messing with chart creation – done
    • Change the classification banner to be sett in the setupxml file – done
    • Add “Clear Query” Button to the details page – done
    • Force the parent to be selected if the child is in in tree view (maybe set square gray?) – done
    • “Set Query Builder is not setting the table in Basic, Details and Advanced – fixed
    • Roles can’t be updated from Manager App – fixed?
    • Need to have <node type=”value> elements inside <node type=”folder”> elements. Which means that we needto look up the tree until we hit a column – done
    • Make sure that Validate clears the query tree – done

Phil 10.23.2009

7:30 – 4:30

  • Spent most of the day at S2f. Prepped for the demo – basically building up the XML tree, then the meeting started late, then the meeting took forever. Pat seems happy though. Here’s a list of things to fix:
    • Clear the query when the tab becomes active. Lingering queries are messing with chart creation
    • Change the classification banner to be sett in the setupxml file
    • Add “Clear Query” Button to the details page
    • Force the parent to be selected if the child is in in tree view (maybe set square gray?)
    • “Set Query Builder is not setting the table in Basic, Details and Advanced
    • Roles can’t be updated from Manager App
    • Need to have <node type=”value> elements inside <node type=”folder”> elements. Which means that we needto look up the tree until we hit a column
    • Make sure that Validate clears the query tree
  • Dong has everything but the communication with the corporate repo working…

Phil 10.22.2009

7:30 – 3:30

  • Morning meeting with John W and Mike C about prodicing data that Pat likes. Mike should have the new format for me by this afternoon. I’ll ingest tomorrow morning.
  • Gave up on trying to get FlexBuilder to show the MvnAssist plugin. Going to try to use the FlexBuilder plugins within a new Eclipse instance. The nice thing is that this should let the whole project live in one editor. Done and working