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Christine 12.8.2010

  • Learning about FlexMojos
  • Going through Sonatypes ‘Maven: The Complete Reference’ — getting better understanding of Maven, FlexMojos and Flex
  • Talked with Phil about Maven plugin (m2 and MavenAssist). Will be coming into office Friday morning to talk more about project
  • Attempting to work through Flex-Maven sample apps, but running into FlexMojos issues

Phil 12.7.2010

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • An infamous day
  • More than 2k of data added to PPM yesterday. They are a busy bunch. No complaints, either.
  • Working on the DataObject class. After beating on Proxy, realized that I might be able to do everything I want with a dynamic object. Trying that now
  • Spent some time doing QC on PPM with dong. There is a new version for me to bring in.

Tom.DeVito 12.06.2010

  • Good news, glue works with strain gauges.  Test was done on left and right palm sensor.  Seemed very responsive.
  • Cables are complete, minus tinning which I can do as I go, and have their strain gauge groups separated.  I will label them as I figure out which one will go with which finger.
  • Attached the bottom strain gauges for the fingers.  By tomorrow the glue should be dry and I will be able to finish the wiring process.
  • With some luck might be done tomorrow minus waiting for protective epoxy to dry.  Epoxy phase will take two days for both sides but if i do the top side first, you should be able to use it to test your code by Wednesday and have it safe to transport be Thursday.
  • The strain gauges on middle post are going to be hard to attach once wiring is complete, but I do not think I can get them on in time to make the Thursday deadline.

Christine 12.3.2010

Continue with Maven

  • Complete tutorial as Maven standalone
  • Read through docs for Maven plug-in with Eclipse
  • Configured Eclipse to be able to use the plug-in
  • Spoke with Phil about Maven versions in use and repository/directory structure

Before piecing Maven and AirFileImageApp together, started creating a simple Air project that I plan to build using Maven. This will help me familiarize myself with using the two technologies together.

Mike 11.30.10

  • Got the SWFManager to load an xml config file and parse it
  • Compiled several flex spark skins in to standalone swfs, loaded them in to the SWF Manager and can now swap between them at run-time, they are also applied to any modules loaded
  • Discussed some architecture issues with Phil

Christine 11.30.2010 (& 11.29.2010)

This encompasses what I’ve done over the past 2 days.

  • Emailed Phil about next task (Mavenizing AirFileImageApp)
  • After dealing with some checkout issues, got the application and am familiarizing self with code
  • Began reading documentation about Maven (from Apache site); running through examples using Maven

Mike 11.29.10

Time to start blogging again…

What I’ve done since being back:

  • Moved most of my workspace from my old laptop to the shiny new one and finagled admin on it
  • Spoke with Phil and Brian about the new project and broke it down in to several smaller but still huge pieces:
    • Some kind of dynamic swf loader which will manage “apps” and communication between them
    • A data manager responsible for handling all data requests and syncing data changes with the server
    • An interface for writing and executing scripts on the server
  • Worked on a prototype swf loader
    • It’s currently capable of loading a swf which is not actually a stand-alone swf that is simply display in a container but treated more as a bundle of classes.  Each class in the bundle is loaded in to memory and a new instance of whatever is needed can be spawned
    • Classes are registered with a static ModuleManager and when events are thrown requesting a new app by name (full class-path name), a new instance is created and added to the main stage
    • Created several samples “apps” which contains chart / text / datagrids and static data.
    • Created a “Debug” app containing the logger datagrid but having some difficulty with it.  It’s throwing weird errors complaining that the datagrid columns have zero width.  Need to walk through the debugger more.
  • Created a generic transition for switching between apps and added it to the swf loader
  • Spent some time thinking about the data model and how it should work, have a few ideas about both the flex and java side for a very generic data model

Stuff on the immediate to do list:

  • Get a configuration file read in by the SWF loader containg connection info and swf module URLs
  • Get a data model started
  • Try loading some data from XML files directly in to the flex data model (before trying to connect to a java server for data)

Tom.DeVito 11.24.2010

  • Changed the windows installer to be able to tell if the localhost is secure or not and change the type of amf it uses.  Posted it on the website.
  • Realized that the visibility documentation wasn’t being properly pointed to in the demo.  Fixed this so it now opens the appropriate page.
  • Added a link to the Visibility Documentation to the website

Current Status of Projects:

  • Assembly of the new prototype for the Feldman Project is about 70% complete.  Still needs strain gauges and the associated wiring.  Waiting for multi-conductor wire and glue to come in
  • Multi-platform version of the webapp installer is nearly complete.  The benefit of this one over the windows version, is that it will also allow you to set-up the initial database from a script as long as the database doesn’t already exist.  Also I am looking into self-extracting scripts so that the final product, after someone configures it to their application, will be a standard executable that automatically brings up the configuration interface for the user.
  • In order to determine the next step for the Visibility documentation, I really need to have someone who has never used the tool to walk through my current tutorial and give me feedback.  I will try to get my mom(or even better my dad, lol) to walk through it over the holiday.  In the meantime, I will create tutorials for the features that were not covered in the Basic features tutorial.