Category Archives: Phil

Phil 4.1.13

Classes this morning, so a half day today.

And I think this is my favorite April Fools item, if only for the effort and attention to detail:

1:00 – 6:00 ESSO? (that’s the only option on the timesheet, anyway…)

  • Working on incorporating my fix into the Flexichart codebase.
    • And that turns out not to be the problem at all. The <id=> attribute is getting recalculated on every config. Adding a hash value in to fix that…

Phil 3.29.13

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Backups
  • Got the PIT Crew wish list from Lenny. Putting all of it in the PPM/PA Req’s page (as a GIANT grid. Sheesh!)
  • Back to debugging Flexichart.
    • Yay – found where the xml isn’t getting updated using the SeriesConfig.subConfig_seriesConfigChangedHandler() method I added. The seriesSubConfig.seriesConfig xml is updating but the config xml isn’t reflecting that change. Now I need to find out why…
    • Have not found out why, but here’s the fix. I’ll put it in SeriesConfig.subConfig_seriesConfigChangedHandler() on Monday:
	var targetId:String = (subConfig).@id;
	var changeTarget:XMLList = config.series.series.(@id == targetId);
	if(changeTarget.length() > 0){
		changeTarget[0] = subConfig;
	}

Phil 3.28.13

8:00 – 4:00

  • Viztool meeting? Waiting for Dong’s paperwork
  • Notes from meeting:
    •  Calculate the BASE (“xxBxxx”) and OCO (“xxJxxx”) using the 3rd letter of the program element. Should be no need to have a button.
    • Program Element -> FACTSPE
    • Center Name -> Budget Center Name
    • Center Number -> Budget Center Number
    • Sub Budget Center Name
    • Sub Budget Center Number
    • Total Budget -> MIPR Amount
    • Make the total “Project Budget” grid so that 10 rows will fit in a 1280 x 1024 display
    • Add validator so that Req Number can have only numbers. No characters, or special characters
    • Remove “Contract” from Clamed and Unclaimed
    • Unclaimed:
      • Change “filter” to “Column Preferences” have all possible columns from Cognos selectable, and reorderable. Of particular importance is Req. Number, which should be a default.
      • “filter” should be search
    • Claimed:
      • Change “filter” to “Column Preferences” have all possible columns from Cognos selectable, and reorderable. Of particular importance is
      • “filter” should be search
    • Project Info:
      • Change “filter” to “Column Preferences” have all possible columns from the project data selectable, and reorderable.
      • “filter” should be search
      • Total Budget -> Req Amount
      • FYXX -> FYXX Req Amount
  • Printed out and signed InfoTek’s NDA for Dong and myself. Handed them to Athena.
  • More bug hunting. I had to restore from the repository last night after managing to break the event connection where a series is selected. Managed to keep the “configSeriesChanged” change to SeriesSubConfig and SeriesConfigEvent. I also changed the “Apply” and “Done” events sot that they call methods rather than launching the events directly. This should allow some space to reassemble the xml if I can’t manage to do it anywhere else.
  • Should we be switching over to MariaDB? It’s the open-source successor to MySQL, run by the original developer (and team). Here’s why.

Phil 3.25.13

8:30 – 4:30

  • The first big snow of the year in in the Spring. So there.
  • A request for my access extension has been submitted. Yay! Nothing on the certs yet though.
  • Sent Thom Lenny’s FY 12 and FY 13 spreadsheets so he can do a pull.
  • Still need to scan and deploy the bug fix from Friday – done.
  • Working on 6 month versions of the FY12 and FY 13 presentations
    • Done with FY12 charts
    • Done with FY13 charts
    • Done with slideshows. Lenny wasn’t in today, so the new data will have to wait until tomorrow.
  • Came into the office to find that my computers were really only partway through their OS updates. And I’m still waiting on my AV software, which is updating as I write this. Sigh.
  • More tracing of the data corruption bug.
  • I am not sure that this isn’t the result of some linking problems. In attempting to step through SeriesConfig, the debugger is getting completely lost.

Phil 3.22.13

8:00 – 4:30 ESSO

  • Asked Chris to renew my access
  • Created 6 month versions of the queries
  • Realized that the trend charts are based on time-specific selections, and that they won’t work with the 6-month rolling window. We are going to have to write a script that updates the dashboard xml to have the correct columns selected
  • Lenny’s chart broke, when pointing back at the 24 month data. To diagnose, we loaded local log and ran again. Something happens after the headers are read in in GenericQueryWidget
  • The values for the config are being changed back at some point. They are ok in ColumnSeriesConfig.commitProperties, but by the time the code hits TrendWidget._flexiChartConfig_configApplyHandler(event:FlexiChartEvent):void, the values are wrong.
  • Burned a new disk for the dateFormatter bug.

Phil 3.21.13

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Flurries this morning. This is soo wrong.
  • Started a ticket for renewing certs for the integration and production servers.
  • Tested out the 6 month data , which everyone liked.
  • The “save” event for a slide doesn’t seem to be happening after the first save. Need to fix that
  • Set the horizontal axis item renderer to show (selectable month/day?) data in timeline views
  • Spent some time going over the mechanism for passing variables to a SQL query inside VSS
    • Add a column for the variables in the query table. This replaces the variables flag, and will store the variables as key/value pairs in XML. Note that this will always be <String>:<String>. Each query is allowed only one variable object.
    • The python script is able to use new facade methods to write the variables into the slot.
      • varClear() // clears the HashMap
      • varSet(key:String, val:String); // sets a key value pair
      • set(queryName:String); // finds the appropriate query in the query table.
    • The variable object must be set() before the sql is called.
    • When editing the SQL in the SQL editor, the “raw” query with the substitution tags is shown if the “variables” checkbox is FALSE. The state of the “submit” button tracks the variables checkbox. If the checkbox is TRUE, then the macro substition is run that the query can be submitted.
    • When running a scheduled query, there needs to be logic to perform macro substitution if the variable field is NOT NULL
    • Also, the list of facade methods needs to be made current.

2:00 – 2:30 Talked with Jeremy Fremin about R&D opportunities in Novetta

Phil 3.20.13

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • First day of Spring! Brrr!
  • Meeting with Chris B. Lenny, Carla and Thom. Next meeting is on Thursday 28th. We should try to have some version of the new PM deployed for evaluation
  • Need to change the scripts for FY12 and FY13 to show only 6 months of history. Possible change to have only bar charts. Still a desire to have something in the horizontal axis that’s legible. Possibly just text.
  • Got the server up and running in eclipse. Most of the remaining problems involved getting jar files to pass through to the final application. In the end, jars used by JavaUtils had to be copied to the test program and exported.
  • Got the Flex code to connect with the debug java server and stepped through things. Found that the classloader was working fine, although it was important to actually copy over the properties files and stick them in the WEB-INF/classes directory in the Juno(Java) project. The classes from all the other sources were merged correctly. Yay.
  • Tomorrow, we create the Flex version component.

Phil 3.19.13

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Spent a good part of the morning trying to figure out Keystore again. I need to export a jks file?
  • Working on getting the Tomcat server to run inside of Eclipse.
  • Had to add flex jars and javaUtil classes to the Deployment Assembly dialog in Properties for RemoteObjectTestbed. Had to do it through the QuickFix mechanism in the Problems pane. Adding it directly didn’t seem to work. Also, tried to add the JavaUtils project rather than just the classes, but that didn’t seem to bring along the classes and added warnings about the jar files used to construct JavaUtils. Since they’re needed for logging and such, I’m going to add them?
  • Description Resource Path Location Type
    Classpath entry M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar is marked for publish/export but is not exported on the project classpath. Classpath visibility within Eclipse and at runtime will differ. javaUtils P/javaUtils Classpath Dependency Validator Message
  • Things are working, but I still can’t get the eclipse server to work with the installed Tomcat location. It’s possible that this could be done using the VM arguments in the Arguments tab of Run Configurations, but I really don’t want to try that yet.

    Tomcat Run Configuration

    Tomcat Run Configuration

Phil 3.18.13

Phil 8:00 – 4:30 ESSO

  • On the whole, being back at work is much better than watching over your parents at the hospital.
  • Backups
  • Getting a new server cert for the integration machine. Many changes, dead links, etc, but the help is better, and makes more sense. Sent off, though I’m not sure if I go all the people right.
  • Working on getting the server to run in the debugger. So far I’ve had to download updates to all the web tools, and the JST adapters and JST adapter extensions.
  • Updated the HOW TO SET UP ECLIPSE FOR SERVER SIDE JAVA AND CLIENT SIDE FLEX pages to fix a lot of changes since Helios, but can’t seem to connect to the pages – just a bunch of 404s. Calling it a day.

Phil 3.12.13

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Regular backups.
  • Helped Chris get on the servers, since it looks like he’s taking over management of them
  • The move went well yesterday. I got all my stuff set up, but no connection to the internet yet.
  • Probably will spend time looking at the DbRemoteObject code. Need a way of sending the desired database name, and also see what’s causing the creation of two tables in the current system.

Phil 3.11.13

8:00 – 1:30 ESSO

  • Backed up everything
  • Installed new Java and verifies that everything is working
  • 10:30 Meeting with Chris B, Denise P, and Bill A. to discuss who has the responsibility to run the server/it infrastructure.

Phil 3.8.13

8:00 – 4:00 Esso

  • Backed up everything
  • Deployed the new version of PA with the concatination fix.
  • Long discussion with Lenny about mapping between Req’s and $$. Our thought was that the contract would be the best way to determine how to distribute money in the case where multiple projects shared a MIPR, but it might turn out to be the Budget Center/Sub Budget Center.
  • And we still need to add a check on the version of the software that’s being run. In case it’s not written down anywhere else, it’s as follows:
    • When the software loads up for the first time, it reaches out to the DB and asks what the date of the client code is. The table has the app name (PPM, PA, VSS, DataViz, etc), and a date.
    • If the client’s date is later than the stored date, then the date on the server is updated.
    • If the client’s date is older, a dialog comes up that tells the user to remove any cached data from their browser and reload the client.
  • Going to see if my DbObject code can be used for the version check dialog. Getting reacquainted with the code.
  • Got the example (written M 2011) running. Nothing in the server class folder but libraries. Kinda cool.

Phil 3.7.13

7:30 – 3:30 ESSO

  • Had to bounce the server for some reason. The publisher servlet was not working correctly…
  • Turned off the Alert* scripts by setting the time to null in the DB. The VSS app isn’t working for this.
  • Rolled the PA back to the version compiled of Feb 4, due to an incomplete SQL being sent to the server.
  • Wrote up status report for Feb
  • Sent meeting notes to PIT crew.
  • Back to YUI and JavaScript. Webstorm came out with a new version (6.0), which is quite pretty:
    Back to the Future?

    Back to the Future?

     

  • Finished Chapter 3 UI Effects and Interactions. It mostly made sense.