Category Archives: Server

Phil 10.16.13

8:00 – 4:00 SR

  • Obligation and Commitments from FACTS are cumulative. Actuals are non-cumulative. Remove all the calculations summing up obligations and commitments by monthly and store monthly values from Cognos.
  • IE7 works with YUI!
  • Need to add search to “View Financial Data”. Rather than showing all the subelements, clicking on a row in Requisition Information (top grid) will show the associated detailed financial view. We should also add a search to Req Info.   The summary always shows.
  • Create historical record Cognos data table. We can use scripts later to integrate data into our reports…
  • Finished chapter 2, starting on chapter 3. Also got timers working from the gallery. One search, one bug, one additional search.

Phil 9.27.13

8:00 – 11:30 SR

  • Parent projects can only be created if there are no REQ’s. If there are, pop up a dialog that says REQ’s must be eliminated. A parent project has no visible REQ tab.
  • Add table_combobox_defaults with 3 columns 1) Editable, 2) Default value, 3) Table name
  • Unresolved discussion about REQ tracking discussion with Lenny.
  • Timesheets.

11:30 – FP

  • More paper

Phil 9.25.13

8:00 – 1:00 SR

  • Backups
  • Got my permissions straightened out in Xacta!
  • Deploying new FA with DB changes today
  • Tangie needs status reports by next Tuesday
  • Create an “table_errors” table that has the application, user, date, time, query and error message, and take out the “Mail to Admin note”
  • Project Budget info has scroll bars. It needs tooltips instead
  • Budget info needs to be cumulative – i.e. add the current month to the previous month inside the Cognos script;

Phil 0.24.13

8:00 – 11:00 SR

  • Big wreck on 95 this morning meant back roads coming in. Actually very pleasant commute 🙂
  • Backups
  • Continuing my server paperwork saga.
  • Subprojects are back!
    • Add “SubProject” to project information titlebar
    • Copy info from parent (Project Budget info, etc)
    • It might be possible to calculate some budget components. Not sure if needed.

11:00 – FP

  • Got dispensation to drop the headset paper. Working on the Phantom paper.

Phil 9.20.13

8:00 – 10:00SR

  • Backups
  • Talked to Carla, the presentation went well and the customer likes the new version. There is an email with issues that I don’t have yet, but what I’ve heard so far is
    • No way to search for contracts
    • Contract info isn’t populating in the invoice
  • Meeting with Chris, Dong and Lenny. Notes on the Req’s page.

10:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Incorporated the results from yesterday’s runs. And we now have significant results for task completion times and task errors. Pretty cool.
  • Back to working on the paper.

Phil 9.19.13

8:00 – 11:00, 3:00 – 4:30 SR

  • Backups
  • Attempted to deploy, but for some reason an old SWF was on the disk
  • Redeployed new version in the afternoon. Success!

11:00 – 2:00 FP

  • Worked on paper. I think I have a concept that fits the data. It will be two parts. The first will focus on the pilot study and the hardware/software. The second will focus on a more complete test of how multimodal rendering systems (Visual, haptic, tactile, aural) can enhance/support interaction as the visual channel is attenuated.
  • Ran two more tests through the system. Need to incorporate the data and rerun the statistics. I think I also want to run the fastst 50% raw times. It occurs to me that there should be a minimum time to achieve the task (20-ish seconds?), and those that are closest to that time are by definition experts. This also leads to a way of classifying the users in a more meaningful way along a continuum from novice to expert.

2:00 – 3:00 Leave

  • Had to catch up on class readings before meeting at 6:00. Worried that the afternoon install might run long.

Phil 9.18.13

8:00 – 10:00 SR

  • Backups. And in case Dong is still wondering, the full backup takes about 60 seconds.
  • Paperwork. Need to talk to Chris about potential server changes.

10:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Continuing the ongoing saga of trying to get an application written in Visual Studio 2010 in MSVC to run on ANY OTHER WINDOWS SYSTEM than the dev system. Today, I should be finishing the update of the laptop from Vista to Win7. Maybe that will work. Sigh.
    • Some progress. It seems you can’t use “Global” in the way specified in the Microsoft documentation about CreateFileMapping() unless you want to run everything as admin. See StackOverflow for more details.
    • However now the code is crashing on initialization issues. Maybe something to do with OpenGL?
    • It was! I needed to remove the drivers and install NVIDIA’s (earlier) versions. I’m not getting the text overlay, which is odd, but everything else is working. Sheesh.
  • Start writing haptic paper. Targets are CHI, UIST, or HRI. Maybe even MIG?
  • This is also pretty interesting… http://wintersim.org/. Either for iRevolution or ArTangibleSim

Phil 9.17.13

8:00 – SR

  • NDA
  • Backups
  • Looking into a way of timing scripts. DOS has the TIME command, but that takes a ridiculous amount of formatting to produce a useful answer. It might be better to write a small utility and use that instead.

10:00 – FP

  • Try out Firewire cable on laptop.

Phil 9.16.13

8:00 – 11:00 SR

  • Deployed new VSS
  • Had to change “committed” to “expensed” in Dong’s Python and SQL scripts.
  • Add a “Hide” marker to the unclaimed section
  • Add “100%” to Cognos Data Management panel

11:00 – 4:00 Leave

  • waiting for Verizon to fix my TV/Phone/Internet

Phil 9.13.13

8:00 – SR

  • Backups
  • Server maintenance
  • Scheduled additional training with Carla for Monday.
  • Found out about the Internet Census 2012. Wow.

FP

  • Filter out “expert” users (Lowest average time to complete all tasks
  • Add error count (goal failuers)
  • Fix commas+space bug in headset and Phantom code
  • Add “System will exit” Dialog and exit() to headset and Phantom code upon completion of csv file.

Phil 9.12.13

8:00 – 11:30 SR

  • Backups
  • Deployed new RA
    • Need to add a dialog that shows the amount of time estimated for the query (average? Min/max?)
    • Need to be able to get budgets with respect to Capability, Reqs or Projects depending on the context
    • Need to be able to click on a query result line and go to the project. If multiple projects fit the criteria, all are listed in a dialog and the desired can be selected from that
    • Add tooltip to save/load query datagrid
    • Queries by individual capability – underfunded
    • Queries by individual appropriation – underfunded
    • Add the name of the query to the QueryBuilder titlebar
    • Incorrect total for committed. May be from COGNOS
    • Add a Requisition Amount column
    • Adding a column (Appropriation?) breaks the query
    • Incorrect Obligation Outlay goal (Runs on the budget center total rather than the Req total)

11:30 – 6:00 FP

  • Started to run analysis on the Phantom and Headset results. The Phantom results are promising, but not significant. I need to get more data and/or figure out a way of pulling off confounding data.
  • The headset data is somewhat more straightforward, if not a little dull. It turns out that in the pilot study, the ability to determine location of voice or tone with a 4-speaker headset is not that accurate, and degrades pretty linearly as the number of source go up. Not exactly an earth-shattering result.
  • Need to get the spaces out from the csv output. THe space causes the Open Office Calc to read in the data as a string and not a number.
  • Need to cause the headset app and the Phantom app to exit after writing out the file. Restarting ensures that the recorded data will be clean. There was a bug where old data was being kept between sessions on the headset code that subsequently had to be filtered out by hand.
  • Ran Dimitri through the Phantom for his second pass. Looking at how he handled the system makes me thing that there is an “expert” level of training that most of the other test subjects haven’t attained. I wonder if that makes the results more clean? Need to examine further.

Phil 9.11.13

8:00 – 10:00 SR

  • Backups
  • One of Carla’s users thinks that they have found a bug in RA. They would also like an “Edit” button in addition to the “Remove” button
  • Pat is having some bugs with query builder where redundant information appears to be getting returned. She also ran into the missing where clause bug.
  • The “Create Req” panel needs tooltips and searchable comboboxes.

10:00 – 5:00 FP

  • gathering results