Category Archives: Phil

Phil 10.15.12

Phil 8:30 – 4:30

  • Backups and such. All is quiet. Even fixed a typo or two.
  • Decided to put all the HSB code in  com.edgeti.EdgeUtils.color.HsbObject. Once that’s working, I’ll put it in FGMFlexUtils45, since it’s probably going to be pure Actionscript.
  • Well, I’ll be. It ran the first time!
  • Starting on adding formatted tooltips for numbers. Started to build a formattedDataTip function in AdvancedQueryWidget. Need to pull the name and value from the HitData, then check to see if the value is a number, and if so, add commas and decimal places. Still need to figure out where this is done in FlexiChart, but it will (should?) be the same code.

Phil 10.12.12

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Backups – all is well.
  • Farewell lunch for Jessica
  • Working on color recognizing code. Editor freaked out and gave warnings for items inherited from QueryWidgetBase and WidgetBase. Solved mysteriously after some flailing. Probably closing and re-opening the project fixed it.
  • Got the main piece of the color code working, but I can’t have a hybrid model that lets the default color scheme take over once I’ve run out of custom colors. So I’m converting the RGB of the two theme colors and calculating a family of colors in HSB space. This will be nicer anyway, since the theme will now be usable on the pie chart and will make the other charts look a little better.
  • Neat video on data visualization and ‘data foraging’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IbTZBMHiY4

Phil 10.11.12

ESSO 8:00 – 2:00

  • Finished putting FlashBuilder back together
  • Adding bar column and pie chart awareness of color, if available
  • Burned updates and status report
  • Status meeting at 10:30
  • Starting on setting color to match words in columns

Phil 10.10.12

7:30 – 4:30 ESSO

  • Demo for Col. Dukes.
    • For a column where the items are colors, the bar/pie/column should match that color
    • Need to add commas and remove decimal places to tooltip renderer
    • Tried to open Flashbuilder, but no luck. Spent the rest of the day re-installing everything.
  • Need to bring in my status tomorrow along with patch disk
  • GWT Chapter 3
    • Chapter 3 example code compiles and runs!

Phil 10.9.12

8:00 – 2:00 ESSO

  • Backed up everything
  • Had an odd problem with what boiled down to a FY Month zero problem on the script that produced charts showing who had projects that had listed the same amount spent between the current month and the previous month. Since there was no month before October (Month 1), the SQL query crashed. Fixed by adding a test to see if the month was October, and adding a “no data available” case to the logic of the script.
  • It appears that the Ingest Manager my still be trying to merge tables. Dong’s going to test this (and add in the ChangeLog?). THe correct behavior should be a DROP TABLE

2:00 – 4:00 FP

  • QM

Phil 10.5.12

8:00 – 4:00 – ESSO

  • Backups
  • Uploaded new data for presentation on Wednesday
  • Discovered that the filter set up for VSS was interfering with http://localhost calls (“not authorized web page”). Since we really don’t need the filter there, I put in an HTML redirect for the test applet and turned off the filter and the test applet in web.xml. Everything should be working now, but rather than going and re-ingesting everything, I’m going to let the timed tasks run and check up on them on Tuesday.
  • Talked to Jessica and Larry about the “Reconcile” option, which they likes. Dave W was listening, and approved.
  • GWT chapter 3. Downloaded code from Manning.
  • Discussion with GAO folks about their app this afternoon.

Phil 10:4.12

8:00 – 2:00 ESSO

  • GWT Chapter 2
  • Installing Web development tools in Eclipse. I need an HTML editor!
    • The Juno Web Page Editor is quite nice. WYSIWYG, with linking (highlights) between the source and the rendered page. Design and preview tabs.
  • Progress meeting at 10:00 – nope, cancelled for an impromptu sometime next week.
  • GWT Chapter 3

Phil 10.2.12

8:00 – 2:00 ESSO

  • Back from vacation! Pix are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21701734@N04/sets/72157631554682788/
  • Deployed Dong’s new PA, and made a new DB. Need to add that to the bcakups, but no rush. Right now it just has test data in it.
  • Backups
  • General client coordination. No fires. Yay!
  • Installing updates to every Adobe product, so no Flashbuilder for a while
  • Going to start on GWT Alert app
  • Yay! Updates are done
  • Not quite. Needed to update Java and change the environment variables too.
  • Ok, *now* I’m back to GWT. Reviewing up to Chapter 2.

2:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Qualitative methods.

Phil 9.12.12

8:30 – 4:30 ESSO

  • Deployed new PPM
  • Tried to set up a recurring task to do DB backups. We’ll see if it works. I have my doubts.
  • The servers that we thought we had may not be the correct servers. Still, I asked for the fully qualified domain name. It should be interesting to see if we can get on them regardless.
  • Jessica is coming over this afternoon to discuss Alerts.

Phil 9.11.12

8:30 – 2:30 ESSO

  • Deployed new PPM
  • Backups
  • Fixed the problem with VSS’s testServlet. It was the lack of needed jars
  • Some back and forth with Denise P. We might have our production Server?
  • Jessica will probably come over tomorrow afternoon for alert discussions
  • Working on GWT.

2:30 – 4:30 FP

  • Qualitative methods

Phil 9.7.12

8:00 – 3:00 ESSO

  • Backups
  • Deployed new versions of PPM and PA. With bonus fixes – go, Dong!
  • Made a new script that produced a table of users for the pre FY13 data for visualization
  • Deployed test GWT code on the integration server. Works with Firefox and IE7 including server access, so we’re good.
  • Helped Jessica with her pursuit of various roles.

Phil 9.5.12

8:30 – 4:40 ESSO

  • Backups,
  • Meeting about staffing.
  • Adding the test servlet and filter back to VSS. Something’s still not right. I need to check that the filter facade is behaving correctly.
  • Rebuilt the GWT intro app, but with the default code. That works, so the browser plugins are working too.

Phil 9.4.12

8:30 – 2:30 ESSO

  • Backups and discussion of status with Jessica R.
  • Rediscovered how to connect to sourceforge to work with the update site, web pages, etc. This page in particular was really useful.
  • This screenshot might help too:
  • Ok, back to GWT…
  • Gah! Installing the web page editor took forever…
  • Server came up, but I didn’t get the “has been loaded” message in the IDE. Going to try the Firefox plugin tomorrow.

2:30 – 4:30 FP