Category Archives: FGM ASD Blogs

Phil 9.17.2010

8:00 – 12:00 VISIBILITY

  • Data Visualizer running smoothly on site, but also very little use in the middle of the month
  • Rolled out the new BETA swf of PPM for Trish and Chris.
    • Contract info is not showing up in financial entry
    • Financial request POC should be blank
    • NSA Project Manager fields are pulling NSA Financial Manager data
    • Need to add a line for budget totals above financial grids
    • Need to add tooltips to “type” colum entries in financial entries

FP 12:00 – 4:00

  • Working on SigCHI paper.

Dong Shin 09.16.2010

  • changed all ProjPortolioMgr static references to Application.application
  • Added FY Totals Grid to Create/Modify Project Panel
  • Financial Data with total of 0 removed from the View
  • Individual Data with funding of 0 removed from the View
  • disable Create User on non-admin

Mike 9.16.2010

  • Added special cases to the python autocomplete so it includes the methods listed in the drop-down
    • declaring any variable as “mySF = ScriptFascades()” will successfully bring up auto complete options for mySF later in the script
    • same deal for “myTable = mySF.dbQuery(…”, myTable will be recognized as a dbTable object
  • Left the dropDown in the GUI because there’s a few options I can’t reproduce like identifying an alertInfoObject and constructors

Phil 9.16.2010

7:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

  • Things are running smoothly on site
  • Nobody is poking around in the Data Navigator right now, which makes me worried about the level of seriousness by the SLA folks
  • Trish and Chris didn’t enter any new user data
  • Talked to dong about the state of the current PPM system, and showed him a few screenshots from onsite.

12:30- 3:30 FP

  • Working on SigChi Paper. Need to finish the description and discussion sections.

Dong Shin 09.15.2010

  • looking into creating branches for the release
  • found that I had been using svn://viz-n.com, ughh! tried svn copy and svn switch, but doesn’t seem work.
  • assisted Phil enter new Appropriations
  • got the latest feedbacks from customer
    • removed user description
    • login id built from the first name and last name
    • made Save User button bigger
    • change TRP Member label to NSA PM Name and show Portfolio Mgr
    • added FT Name and FT Number to Financial Data tab labels
    • made Budget Centers on Create/Modify Project Panel sortable
    • Non-admin users can only edit own information

Phil 9.15.2010

7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Meeting with Trish and Chris. Rolled out the “release version. This led to several changes being requested. Dong is working on rolling in changes so I can deploy Friday am.
    • Remove description from user registration
    • login should be firstname.lastname. Add a tooltip
    • Users should be able to edit their own user data
    • Make “Save User” button bigger. Says Save Us…
    • If the budget for a year is zero, don’t show or calculate panels
    • TRP Member in financial Data should read “NSA PM Name” and show NSA portfolio Manager
    • Total budget needs to be total budget by year (use a grid rather than a single field)
    • Financial tabs need FT Name and FT Number added to “Year XX” label
    • Make project rows sortable

2:00 – 3:30 FP

Dong Shin 09.14.2010

  • working at home
  • created beta.png to use for the background of ProjPortfolioMgrBeta.swc
  • packaged ProjPortfolioMgr.war
    • fresh database with minimal set of data – project_portfolio_complete.sql
    • only user pgfeldman as Admin
    • ProjPortfolioMgr.swc for users and ProjPortfolioMgrBeta for testing and debugging
  • packaged ProjPortfolioMgrAlpha.war
    • use project_portfolio_dev database
    • load testing data – project_portfolio_complete_test_data.sql
    • changed the configuration to use new database
  • Uploaded files to viz-n.com

Dong Shin 09.13.2010

  • replaced slow and blocking Wifi with hardwires
  • working on DataGridEditor to replace all the editors with comma separated $ values – done. need to integrate it
  • preparing for deployment
    • added debug flag in PPM
    • created debug.png image to show on the debug version

Phil 9.13.2010

8:00 – 10:00 VISIBILITY

  • Slow on site. Talked to John Williams. He likes the idea that we’re getting a cloud based Sharepoint Server. Also, the whole SiteWorks deal is that if there is a web developer component to a team, then SiteWorks can’t take any work away from that developer.

10:00 – 11:30

  • Ran cables top hard-wire our computers in because the wifi was too awful to use.

11:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Flex in a week
  • Walked through project setup for PPM going forward with Dong
    • The release version only has pgfeldm as a user (Admin privileges). Database is clean except for budget info (FY10 O&M, procurement, etc)
    • Default build is ProjportfolioMgrBeta.swf
    • Background image says “BETA”
    • Manual copy of the swf to ProjPortfolioMgr.swf when all tests are passed
    • There is a separate build for anything that changes the database. SWC has a background of “ALPHA”, and the java talks to a different database (project_portfolio_dev). This gets built and deployed to a different war file than the current release version so that testing can occur without harming the release version

2:00 – 5:00

  • Approved changes on provisional patent
  • Started on SIGCHI 2011 paper.

Phil 9.10.2010

7:30 – 2:30 – VISIBILITY

  • Everything is running smooth, which is a good thing seeing as we have a new office with no internet yet.
  • Spent a good deal of time working through scenarios with Keil about what and how to build things for the customer(s)
  • Worked on Flex in a week
  • Assembled a table for the FP

Phil 9.8.2010

8:00 – VISIBILITY

  • Everything looks good at the customer site. Kyle appears to have gotten his account.
  • Paul O has been poking around in visibility again
  • Need to add a map server to fgmdev. Ping’s Tom to do that.
  • Testing PPM with Dong
    • Yellow highlight doesn’t go away
    • “Working” clock icon
    • Double-click to bring up invoice
    • Edit invoice info from list
  • Sharepoint hosting? (http://myhosting.com/business-vps/sharepoint-services.aspx)
  • Had a thought about how to do code completion in the scripting system the same way that google scribe (http://scribe.googlelabs.com/) does it – basically take what other developers have done and suggest that.
  • Talked to Anne about moving SLA forward.
    • Wants a meeting with Brian, Anne, and I about setting up a SOW framework.

4:00 – 6:00 – move

  • Cleaned and assembled

Dong Shin 09.08.2010

  • cannot get Budget Center on Funding Request to behave to right format. on hold
  • replaced all “,”‘s with /,/g in ActionScript code to handle global replacement
  • fixed ItemRenderer showing yellow on Summary Data (g.clear() to clear the previous)
  • InvoiceWindow added to update Invoice Data from Invoice Select Window
  • Double Click on FinancialDataDataGrid to view/edit invoices

Phil 9.7.2010

7:30 – 10:00

  • Meeting with Trish and Chris. Uncovered a few bugs and requests. Passed the info off to Dong.

10:00 – 1:30

  • Went over to Savage Mill to show our movers(?) what to assemble. Masked everything and started to paint, but got complaints. Will finish later today.

1:30 – 4:30

  • Flex in a week. Fortunately, Dong has downloaded all though itunes.

4:30 – 7:00

  • Savage Mill. Finished painting