8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Backed up the databases on site.
• Took some training that I didn’t think I needed, but I was on the email list, soooo…
• Sent an email to Chris and Dave to renew Dong’s pass
• Went home on account of the weather. So I’m setting up my work environment again. Hopefully it’s not that broken.
• Huh. My Tomcat instance seems to be missing. Downloading. Installed.
• Getting the config files and databases from fgmdev.
• Am now able to compile and run Vis2
• Can’t get the “new user / no column header” bug to happen.
• Starting on adding font size to legend and panel titles.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Backups. And everything is *still* working on the production server!
• Worked some with alerts before going off to a GAO meeting and then a meeting with Jim G. The upshot is closer integration with GAO.
• Submitted paperwork for school reimbursement before switch to White Cliffs.

8:00 – ESSO

• Didn’t blog yesterday. Basically worked with Dong on getting VSS working on the production server
• Spent this morning breaking everything on the production server. Somehow, instead of copying folders to the “Production Webapps” backup directory, I moved them. This cause old war files to recreate obsolete versions of everything. And somehow the copied items weren’t complete so *everything* had to be rebuilt from a combination of files on the integration server and files from the Updates directory. Most. Fun. Ever.
• Got the first pass of alerts running though, which is a win.

8:00 – 4:00, ESSO

• ADF
  • Finished this tutorial. The charts are pretty nice. Hooking up data is actually amazing. I fear debugging though.
  • Looks like audio and video are built in. Next time we build an app, we’re going to do this for the help.
• Meeting from 11:00 – 1:00
• Ok, back from that. Let’s do some more charting!
• It looks like I need to download Oracle DB 11. Sigh. 99 MB of data in the pipe, 99 MB of data, take one down and send it along, 98 MB of data in the pipe…
• And it didn’t install properly. This is now getting annoying. Oh, I see, there is no 64-bit version. This is an attempted fix. Didn’t work for me though. More tomorrow.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Much running around yesterday, and I never got a chance to write things.
  • Backups
  • No meeting. Don had not set it up and was not there anyway.
  • Worked on getting VisibilityScripting alert scripts working, but the stored procedure that was needed didn’t store properly.
  • More ADF
  • Also, FP – in-process presentations
• Backups
• Got Dong’s stored procedure working
• Ingested Lenny’s FY13 spreadsheet with minor tweaks. He’ll have everything ready for Tuesday
• 11:00 – 1:00 meeting on Monday.
• JDeveloper. Hooking up to data now, which is pretty cool. I have not seen how to duplicate a line like in Eclipse <CTRL-Shift-Arrow> I miss that. I am learning enough that I can stumble around and fix bugs that I cause.
• Progress for the day:
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8:30 – 2:30 ESSO

• Backups
• Deployed new versions of PPM and PA. The PA html file won’t load properly in IE, though it does in Firefox. Trued taking the PPM html file which does work fine, and replace all ocurrances of ProjPortfolioMgr with ProjectAssistant. Same problem. And also the same condition that it works in FF but not IE. Odd. Will show Dong tomorrow.
• Discussions with Lenny about getting our data pulls either tomorrow or Friday. Was also directed to make sure that Lenny and I were present on any demo that Don gives.
• Checked out what Dong is doing with his queries. We’ll also try to implement the Alert query so we can have a fun display for the presentation later this month.
• Back to ADF and JDeveloper.

2:30 – 5:30 White Cliffs

8:30 – 2:20 ESSO

• More ADF
• Backups, and a non-demo. Will be rescheduled for later.
• Got reamed for watching a YOuTube video. But did find that inspirational in the end.
• Need to write up status report for Jim G.
• Lenny found an odd bug where the text in one of the panels overwrites itself. Unable to print out. Will try tomorrow.

2:30 – 4:30 FP

• Project review

8:00 – 10:00 ESSO

• Backups.
• Waited for Don a bit but no show. I guess we’ll figure out what kind of demo we’re going to do tomorrow when we get there.
• Verified that Lenny had made a script for Carla. Yay, Lenny!

10:00 – 12:00 FP

• Thermal interfaces and tangible interactions with multiple objects using Kinect. Cool stuff.

12:00 – 2:00 OH

• FGM->White Cliff transition
• Sent a note to Jim asking how we take our assets with us.

2:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Back to this ADF tutorial.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Backups
• Wrote up the process for getting admin accounts and sent them to Chris B. And Dan W.
• Did a short training with Carla. Lenny will (hopefully) write a script for her to use on Monday
• Meeting with Dave(?) and Kristi from GAO on integrating Vistool/Data into their process
• Working with Dong on Dealing with how PPM and PA should deal with small monitors.
• Now that JSF is done, starting on ADF (Oracle® Fusion Middleware Web User Interface Developer’s Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.0.0))
• Killed JDeveloper again. That’s annoying, and disturbingly common.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Backups
• Many meetings, plus setup for tomorrows bi weekley
• More JDeveloper tutorials
• The server seems to get completely messed up when my box sleeps (is left alone?)
• Binding a JSF Page to a Managed Bean – Done. Very cool IDE.

8:00 – 2:00 ESSO

• Discussion with Lenny and Dong about how to read in cognos data and use it to populate the FACTS fields in PPM and PA.
• Backups
• Working on the JDeveloper JSF tutorials – managed to crash JDeveloper.
• Talked to Dong about next dev environments. We discussed Adobe and Netbeans in addition to what we’re using now. My thought is that if we can make a table and chart that allow us to visualize data sitting in a DB here and on site, we have a viable option. If it’s open source and supported by a player unlikely to go out of business any time soon, then so much the better.

2:00 – 4:00 FP

• Qualitative Methods.

8:30 – 4:30 ESSO

• Backups
• More interaction with Don abo0ut what kind of visualizations he wants. Printed out a description of the putative table that we need to produce. Dong and I will try to code it tomorrow in site.
• Put together FlexiCharts of ACC, since that appears to have vanished.
• Got started back on JDeveloper and ADF.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Meetings with everyone, Dan, Lenny, Chris.
• Backups
• 2:00pm meeting with Kristen
  • Meeting went well. I basically walked through how to use the Data Visualization and how PPM and PA generated data and where it was stored. We then talked about generating more graphics for her and how scripting could produce the tables she (implicitly) needs for the charts she wants.

7:30 – 2:30 ESSO

• Deployed new PPM and IM
• Discussions with Don about progress
• Said hello to Chris
• Discussions with Lenny, Carla and Tangie about progress
• Discovered that the IM was broken on fgmdev, and I had forgotton how the system was set up. After a bit of help from Dong, fixed and updated the Vis2 and IM SWFs.

2:30 – 3:30 FP

• Interview with Allison Y

7:30 – 10:00, 12:00 – 3:30 ESSO

• Updated the truststore file on the server
• Backups
• Some discussions with Don about progress
• Cleaning up the login screen on Vis2
• Cleaning up the version info on Ingest Manager
• Due to some different configuration data between Dong’s environment and mine, spent a few hours fishing for red herrings. Done now thoug, with a new build for tomorrow.

10:00 – 12:00 – FP

• Contextual user interface design and metaphors