Category Archives: Phil

Phil 4.4.13

7:30 – 3:00 SR

  • Thought there was a meeting today, but nope.
  • Deployed the new vis2.swf, which seems to be working fine.
  • Approved Chris so that he can see the SSP. Funny.
  • Looks like these are the guys -http://www.vsi-corp.com/

Phil 4.3.13

8:00 – 4:00 SR

  • Got all the certs incorporated. I should be able to switch over at any time. Might try that on Friday.
  • Helped Chris with his accounts. He needs to change his passwords and attempt to log on to the test and integration servers.
  • Work on the xmlparsers today?
    • There are two problems, one with the hash, and one with components that can be turned on and off
    • If the items in the xml are not in the same order, then the hash will differ, which is bad.
    • The different lengths of xml are due to the the fact that the initial xml is not created by interrogating the display item.
    • Dong suggests the solution is to make the id from only the displayName and yField. That won’t guarantee uniqueness, but it’s close. I could add a validator that checks for a unique displayName too.
    • Yay, that seems to have done the trick. For now. Checking in and burning a new disk for tomorrow.
  • Did you know that JSON has functions? Check this out: http://www.jayway.com/2013/04/01/three-undocumented-features-of-json-3/

Phil 4.2.13

8:00 – 4:00 SR?

  • Spent a long time working through keystore and renewing the sever certs. And then I was informed that server certs could not be renewed, contradicting the email and website instructions that say that they can be renewed. Sigh. More tomorrow.
  • Got the FlexiChart bug fixed. I wound up adding a Hash class to Utils, and calculated a hash based on the string (with id set to -1). An RSHash is then computed based on the XML string and that result is used to set the Id. That ID hangs around long enough to be useful, although it does get recalculated when the values change, so it’s not a permanent ID.
  • Need to add fix from ColumnSeriesConverter to all the other converters.
    • Which also meant adding seriesConfigChanged(seriesConfig) to all the xxxConfig classes and handling that in SeriesConfig.
    • Which also meant handling the initial creation of the id hash in SeriesConfig.addSeries_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent)
    • The initial creation and updates work, but there is a point that the hashes get out of sync. Making the addSeries perform the hash seemed to move the hash downstream one step.
    • Hmmm. Looks like we have a new bug. With an area chart, the item is initially created as
      • <series id=”2387166208″ seriesType=”AreaSeries” displayName=”New Series” form=”segment” fillColor=”0″ fillAlpha=”0.4″ strokeEnabled=”false” strokeColor=”0″ strokeWeight=”3″ strokeAlpha=”1″ yField=”Totals”/>
    • but when “Apply” is clicked, it changes to
      • <series id=”1515104256″ displayName=”New Series” seriesType=”AreaSeries” yField=”Totals” form=”segment” fillColor=”0″ fillAlpha=”0.3″ strokeEnabled=”false”/>
    • Which, naturally enough, leads to a different hash.
    • However, once this makes a “round trip(?)” to TrendWidget, it takes the shorter form and everything works.
  • Need to clean up a lot of debugging statements…

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.