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.

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.

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

• Working on SIGCHI (http://www.chi2011.org/) paper

7:30 – 1:30 VISIBILITY

• Everything is working fine
• Testing Dong’s code
• Architecture discussions with Keil
• Servlet Debugging with Tom

FP 1:30 – 2:30

• Writing paper

8:00 – 4:00

• Deployed new PPM and started the process of setting up a meeting with Trish and Chris
• Tried to get Murph to do something about logging into the server. He’s convinced that Brian can somehow do this
• Sent a note to John DeMio asking him about his VISIBILITY experience
• Lots of office stuff
• Did send off the provisional patent though

8:00 – 12:00 VISIBILITY

• Saw that John DiMeo had been making quite a few queries against the data we ingested for him
• Working on debugging PPM with Dong
• Burned a new PPM disk

12:00 – 4:00

• Provisional patent

8:00 – 11:00 VISIBILITY

• Fixed some aspects of Joe Noble’s account. Ingested some more data
• Had a talk with John W.
  • John Gresh is leaving in a few weeks
  • Mike Cowan is probably leaving near Jan 1.
  • The current site will probably switch over to SharePoint, with an export of some kind going to SiteWorks. John wants to hand of the SharePoint work to us. I told him that we could probably automate a lot of it, including the SiteWorks export.
• Walked through PPM with Dong

11:00 – 3:00 FP

• Provisional patent. At page 8, in the Preferred Embodiment section

3:00 – 6:00 Savage Mill

• Chairs, desk, fans, build out contacts, etc.

7:30 – 2:30 VISIBILITY

• Set up new account for Joe Noble and imported some data into his role
• Much Savage Mill stuff
• General catching up. Everything has moved! The new server appears much faster!
• Switched maven conf settings
• Switched svn

2:30 – 3:30 FP

• Provisional patent

8:00 – 11:00 VISIBILITY

• Added a role for Paul O’s group.
• Fixed Paul O’s tables. It turns out that the Excel ingestor chokes on ‘-‘. Asked Dong to take a look at informing the user if the ingestor fails.
• Finished my IA refresher
• Talked to Anne about Paul’s project and about the upcoming meeting.

11:00 – 1:00 Savage Mill

• Went over with Brian to explain wall positions and discuss ceiling options. We should have a quote by the end of the day.

1:00 – 4:00 FP

• Working on provisional patent. Decided not to use the software and just write the thing.
• Got about 5 pages into the application. It’s coming along well

7:30 – 11:00, 1:00 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• Talked to Ann, it looks like things may be happening in September. Need to work on getting some of John’s data ingested
• Started IA online course. Should finish tomorrow.
• QC-ing Dong’s PPM code
• More talks with Anne. Meeting at 9:00 Sept 3 for now.

11:00 – 1:00 FP

• Working on refining collision detection and adding more obstacles
• Contacted Stuart Shapiro ( sbs@usiplaw.com) about filing a provisional patent. Looks like this would be useful: https://www.patentwizard.com/
• Had to get rid of an infinitely large vector that results from a collision too close to the origins of the two colliding point masses basically a 0/x problem, where x > 0

7:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

• No Trish for meeting reschedule for Monday. I believe that we will try again Monday.
• Long meeting with Anne and John D. about using VISIBILITY for their stuff.
• Did find a few bugs with PPM
  • I attempted to save off a filled out version of the “5 questions” form with some cut and paste data in the fields. The form never saved successfully, and the timer icon never came back
  • The vertical tab that switches between charts and data in the financial entry chart has the full year in it. It should be “Year 1”, “Year 2”, etc.
• Talked to John W. about documentation some.

FP 12:30 – 3:30

• Got the EL axis working and integrated
• Got everything working with the physics and the graphics, although I need to clean up collision detection. THings are ready to demo.
• Worked on the next version a bit. A full hand interface, without additional motion, but able to sense XYZ on its base.

8:00 – 10:00, 3:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Clift had forwarded some questions about ingesting data from Paul O. I described how to ingest an excel spreadsheet and pointed to the Ingest Manager tutorials. Paul would also like an Access ingestor. Not sure if it would be as straightforward as setting a jdbc access jar and running the same commands we would otherwise.
  • It could be relatively straightforward – here’s a website describing same: http://www.easysoft.com/applications/microsoft-access/jdbc-odbc.html
• And FGM’s mail servers are down. Whee.

10:00 – 3:00FP

• Adding in additional axis. Working out which should be x and which should be Y.
• When I get the Y-axis working, I’ll need to reset the clamp on the fingers so that they stay centered around the “hand”, Which is going to need some additional graphics to show. We’ll start with that.
• Graphics are done. Working on getting the collision for the hand to be the average of the finger X-axis collision forces.

7:30 – 10:30VISIBILITY

• Nothing new on site, but two meetings scheduled for Friday

10:30 – 2:00 OVERHEAD

• 9:30 meeting at Savage Mill
• Worked on the redesign of the office space to accommodate the sprinkler system

2:00 – 3:30FP

• Got the fingers working pretty well. There is a lag of about 0.25 sec or so between collision and response, but it’s good enough to see that things will work.
• Need to add an x-axis in with collision response next. Maybe make a maze of gray balls.