Category Archives: Phil

Phil 12.22.11

9:30 – VISIBILITY

  • The days are getting longer!
  • Downloaded SmartGWT. I talked to Dong about the risks of mixing them, as well as the advantages/disadvantages of each. He thinks that GWT is easier to work with.

Phil 12.21.11

9:30 – 2:30 VISIBILITY

  • Hmm. Can’t seem to edit an entry when using IE. Odd. May poke at this later…
  • Heading over to the fort for the first time since I broke my leg. Hopefully my glasses are still there
    • Talked to Tangie. We’re going to try to find some number (10-ish) of non TST users that we can get to enter data before the end of the year. If that works, then we’ll try to get all the non TST folks by Jan 17th.
  • Went poking around looking for drawing capabilities in GWT. Canvas is supported by GWT and appears to be supported in all browsers starting with IE9

Phil 12.19.11

9:00 – 1:00 VISIBILITY

Phil 12.14.11

9:00 – 12:00, 2:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

  • Spent about 30 minutes doing laps of the house without crutches at around 7:00 this morning, then had to lay down for about an hour to let the leg recover. It wasn’t pretty, but much better than yesterday, when I could only stand that for a few minutes.
  • Now that I have GWT working, I’m going to go through the book (GWT in Action) unless someone has a better suggestion
  • Spent an unreasonably long time getting a request for a doctor’s note that will allow me to charge hours while on disability
  • Tom brought up the laptop. I have two screens! Woot.

Phil 12.13.11

8:00 – 12:00, 4:00 – 5:00VISIBILITY

  • Setting up a developer account with admin privileges on my home machine since I can’t launch the GWT server otherwise. Yay! Everything is working. Going to revisit the StockWatcher RPC tutorial to get back up to speed.
    • All working.
  • Asked Tom to bring up my laptop, since mine is broken. There’s also a DigiKey order here.

Phil 12.12.11

10:00 –  5:00 VISIBILITY

  • It’s my first day back(ish) at work! I really miss my dual monitors!
    • Trying to get my laptop set up as a second monitor
    • Windows is all messed up. Trying Ubuntu 10.1. Nope, need a newer kernel
    • Trying Linux Mint. Better so far… Nope. Installer hangs repeatedly.
    • Open SUSE 12.1? (because these guys say so). And it’s awesome, but the laptop keeps freezing whenever I bring up Firefox. Looks like it has a one year warranty, so I guess I’ll try to return it.
  • Setting up my IDE (Eclipse 3.7)
    • Maven is in and up, adding environment variables
    • Adding GWT support. It turns out that There is a version of GWT designer that does not run in eclipse that has more features. You can find it here.
  • Added a blog page for things GWT

Phil 11.29.11

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

Phil 11.25.11

8:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

  • Rode in today – that should burn a calorie or two
  • Tried creating an HTML page using the eclipse gwt wizards and had the same problem. I’m going to try the tutorial from Google to see if I get any different results.
    • It seems as though this is a known bug, and has been around for a long time. The fix is to manually create the html.
    • Though if you create a project with default code in it, all the pieces are created without the widgets and you just need to change the source. Which explains why the bug has been unfixed for so long.
    • Saving the changed code shows in the browser on refresh. Very cool.
    • The proper way to do event handlers in GWT.

Phil 11.23.11

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

Phil 11.22.11

8:00 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

  • Backed up the current database – slight change
  • Making font sizes look at the screen resolution, rather than just being in pixels, since the retina display makes 20 pixels look like bacteria.
  • I think I’m actually done with GesturePieChart!
  • Nice color editor: http://mudcu.be/sphere/
  • Looking at the GWT book.
    • In addition to event handling, GWT has a Message Bus which allows for more decoupled data transfer.
    • UIBinder XML = MXML?
    • Java object serialization. How is typing handled?
    • Updating my Eclipse Google plugin

Phil 11.18.11

7:30 – VISIBILITY

  • Still unable to contact Rich G. about testing
  • Meeting with Chris B. about PPM and PA. All notes are about PA unless PPM is explicitly noted
    • Add auto-fill capability
      • Value (selectable) fill up to a certain month. The default is zero. This might makes sense to do as a popup dialog. There are a lot of options, but it will be used infrequently.
      • When a value us equal to 100%, auto fill that value to the end of the period of performance for that line item. Again, we may want to have a popup that says “This value is equal to 100% of the appropriation. Would you like this to be auto filled to the end of this appropriation?”
    • Add button to PPM “Project Editor” page that will open the appropriate monthly financial data entry page
    • FACTS data should only show for Admin.
    • Change “PM Actuals” to “PM Actuals (invoiced) Outlay
      • Copy values from PM Actual cell to Reported outlay cell (in PPM and PA)
      • hide “Reported Outlay” line in PA only
    • Entry should be selectable for monthly or cumulative. If entered as monthly, then it will be added to the previous month and shown in the cell as cumulative.
      • Dropdown should say “Enter Monthly Value” or “Enter Cumulative Value”
    • Year View in PA should be editable only by users with Admin (actually, probably NSAHQ users as well?)
    • Only show unige fields on identifier dropdown. There may have to be an identifier as well – e.g. Appr: O&M (2010), Name: MyProject…
    • Make a given month current until the 17th of the next month. So a project manager would have until November 17 to enter values for October
    • Continue to integrate navigation through line items by Overdue, Incomplete, Current, or All
  • Added comments to the PPM req’s page.

Phil 11.17.11

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed Dongs new stuff
  • tried to contact our designated server test guy
  • No meeting with Chris. He’s sick. We’ll try again tomorrow.
  • Need to make FACTS data optional
  • Got a new 4S. Much faster with the app.
  • Fixed up a few things with the style browser
  • Meeting with Kristi and Dong about Project Assistant
    • Splash page with a “tip of the day”, “Tutorial” button, and a “Use Project Assistant” button
    • Kristi will build the tutorial first, then we’ll break it into the help
    • Dong will add the ability to navigate through the monthly entries with the following filters:
      • overdue
      • incomplete
      • current
      • all

Phil 11.16.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Tried to contact our test guy by phone and email, no luck yet.
  • Cleaning up GesturePieChart and GesturePieChartEvent
  • Spent quite a bit of time digging through styles to find how to make things look best together. Made a new view called StyleBrowser to seve work for the next time.
  • Dong gave me a new disk. We’ll all meet on site to deploy and talk to Chris.

How to get all the currently defined styles (from http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/12/building-a-simple-style-browser-in-flex-3/)

 var arr:Array = styleManager.selectors;
 var selector:String;
 var cssStyle:CSSStyleDeclaration;
 var obj:Object;

 var key:String;
 for each (selector in arr){
     cssStyle = styleManager.getStyleDeclaration(selector);
     obj = new cssStyle.defaultFactory();
     for (key in obj) {
         trace(selector+": "+key+" = "+obj[key]);
     }
 }