Category Archives: Phil

Phil 5.16.11

11:00 – 4:00VISIBILITY

  • Now that I have my computer doing all the things it should, I’m going to add login roll and db accessibility to the statistics package. I think I’ll call it VISIBILITY Analytics.
  • Setting up the various databases in MySql
  • Submitted the integration server PKI request

Phil 5.13.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • My work directories successfully copied over last night, and Cygwin installed. Whee!
  • Added the following System variables
    • JAVA_HOME – C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_25
    • JRE_HOME – C:Program FilesJavajre6
    • M2_HOME – C:mavenapache-maven-3.0-beta-1
    • M2 – %M2_HOME%bin
    • M2_REPO – C:Philm2repository
    • MAVEN_OPTS -Xmx512m
    • R_HOME – C:Program FilesRR-2.13.0
    • WORKSPACE – C:PhilMvnAssistProjects
    • Path – C:Program Files (x86)AMD APPbinx86_64;C:Program Files (x86)AMD APPbinx86;%SystemRoot%system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%System32Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%System32WindowsPowerShellv1.0;%JAVA_HOME%bin;%M2%;%FLASHBUILDER4%bin;%R_HOME%bini386;C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-Static
  • Decompressing and installing stuff
    • Interesting problem with Flashbuilder. When I tried to point it to an old (FB4)  workspace, the package explorer dies and came up with a No Class Def error. On the forum (http://forums.adobe.com/message/2941203#2941203), I found a mention that there was a conflict with old versions of FB. I created a new workspace, and the package explorer comes up. And that seems to work.
    • tomcat-7.0.12
    • debug flash players
    • gvim
    • InputDirector
    • jdk-6u25-windows-x-64
    • cygwin setup and Cygwin
    • xampp-win32-1.7.4-VC6-installer
  • Installed Flashbuilder 4 and plugins. You now *have to* use the shortcut that is in the FB plugin directory. Accessing Eclipse though the standard icon will work in Java but not Flash
  • Installed R. Had to set a path variable to point to the R_HOMEbini386 directory.
  • Since we’re all using Subclipse these days, I only installed that – http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x/
  • Downloaded, compiled and ran RFlexServer and RFlexClient!
  • Figured out how to export/import firefox bookmarks. Selecting Bookmarks->Show all Bookmarks, brings up a dialog, with import/export options.

Phil 5.12.11

8:00 – 6:00 VISIBILITY

  • Writing up self-review
  • More setup on my new system – behaving better this time
  • Yesterday I got a message that my remote desktop account may be expiring on the S2F server? Fixed
  • Set up the PPM system and left it running. Allen will look into getting access to the test machine, which is more open than the int VM

Phil 5.11.11

7:30 – 6:00 VISIBILITY

  • Setting up my computer. Slow going. In fact, I could never get *java* to behave. Tom took the box home to reinstall windows.
  • Self appraisal forms
  • Talked to Christina, Walter and Brian about creating a Recruiting webapp that ties into Visibility
  • Installed the following on the server:
    • xampp
    • java jdk
    • gvim
    • firefox
    • flash player (debug)
  • Set the JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME after attempting to start tomcat.
  • Set tomcat to be using http on port 80
  • set up myself as tomcat manager
  • set password on mysql
  • Copied over PPM and set the endpoint to point to 127.0.0.1 and changed the directories in the properties classes to reflect tomcat’s new location
  • Successfully ran PPM
  • Sent out an email to Denise, Bill and Brian about this milestone, and listing the two options for testing (localhost vs making test machine visible)
  • Sent an email to Allan asking how to make the machine visible

Phil 5.10.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Fixing a bug in dbObjects so Dong can use it. Which means getting the debugger to work with Flex and Server side Java again. Urk.
  • Fixed. It was a cut-and paste error. Uploaded fixed versions to the repo and subversion
  • Requested the Flex4 update. At $49 each, it’s a surprising deal :-b. With this version, we should be able to dip our feet into mobile. After talking to Dong, my thought is that we make a mobile app for Recruiting.
  • Deployed new swf. Tried a db update, but got a syntax error
  • Was able to upload files to the server! No I need to get a webserver up and running and find out what I need to point a browser at.

Phil 5.9.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Notes from meeting with Trish
    • Remove UID and Project ID from Funding Request Selection Dialog
    • Add the following dates to Funding Request/Funding Request Information Tab
      • MIPR/FAD Requested from Service
      • MIPR/FAD Request Received
    • Under ‘Projects’ main menu
      • Change ‘Financial Data Request‘ to ‘Monthly Status Request
      • Change ‘Enter Financial Data‘ to ‘Enter Monthly Status Data
      • Delete ‘Financial Status‘ selection
    • Financial Status Data Panel:
      • Trish wants to make sure that data changes in this section of the app are tied into the rest of the system. I.e. changes here will show up throughout the system and vice versa
      • FY Budget value is not being presented in the upper left
      • Some information (i.e. FY11 when FY10 is selected) is being shown in addition to selected info
      • The ‘updated‘ date in the ‘Remaining to Distribute‘ column should be editable
      • Appropriation in top section should be a combobox (Appropriation by year)
      • PM Actual Outlay column header should be a combobox (Appropriation by year)
      • The amount that is summed should be compared against the percentage of the appropriated budget. The difference should be shown in a colored cell. Cells should be colored according to the following scheme
        • RED if more than 5% under budget
        • YELLOW if up to 5% under budget
        • GREEN if at budget
      • Initiate/Commit, Obligation, Outlay, PM Actual Outlay columns should sum to to a value. Currently, the value shown is coming from somewhere else
      • The row of percentages should come from the appropriation. Right now, they are coming from somewhere else?
      • Edit Financial Status Data Popup Dialog
        • All updates in this panel should update funding requests and vice versa
        • Delete ‘Remaining to distribute’
        • Calculate ‘MIPR/FAD Requested From Service‘ based on (new) field in Funding Request
        • Calculate ‘MIPR/FAD Request Received‘ based on (new) field in Funding Request
        • Acceptance should be a combobox with ‘Reimburse’ or Direct Cite’ options
        • Received Contract should be a combobox with ‘Yes’, ‘No’, or “N/A’
        • Outlay and PM Actual Outlay should be editable fields
        • Comments is not saving
    • Funding Request Panel
      • Add a new field in the ‘Finance Data’ tab
        • Initiate/Commit $:
        • This should match the information in the ‘Edit Financial Status Data’ popup dialog from Financial Status Data panel
      • Add the following Radio Buttons Near the Funding Type/Project Type selections
        • Project Source: OISR-PMO, OISR-TF
  • Got the following bug when creating a funding request. It has the swf and db (dropped and reloaded) from exchange/PPM_050611
    • code: Server.Processing
      Message: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException : -1
      Detail: null

Phil 5.5.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Fixed a bug with multivariate summaries that was working fine yesterday…
  • Add probability testing to within-groups testing?
  • Add tuning of probability methods to panels
  • Test all this stuff?

Phil 5.4.11

7:30 – 6:30 VISIBILITY

  • Added probabalistic direct p calculation to ANOVA and MANOVA.
  • Deployed new PPM. Seems to be OK. Asked Christie to try it out.
  • Was actually able to get to the password section of the server login. Went through all kinds of permuations on how to log in with Allan N., but no luck. At this point it looks like we need *another* account. I put in the appropriate ticked.
  • Wrote up status and sent them to Brian and Bill.

Phil 4.28.11

7:30 – VISIBILITY

  • Burn a disk and attempt to deploy new PPM this afternoon.
    • Found two bugs:
      • In the Funding Request Form, if the Description is long enough, it causes scroll bars to appear
      • When trying to save out a spreadsheet, I got an “Error Exporting Data: Error #2007” Alert box
    • Other than that, the upload process went well using the web interface, so I don’t have to go through the shared drive.
    • Tried again to contact Alan N. No luck by email or phone.
    • Bill asked me to inform Denise P., but she’s on leave starting today and ending late next week
  • Upload presentation – done
  • Add type and MANOVA support to within group and multifactor widgets – done
  • “Add All” added to sources
  • Showing an alert() if one of the commands fails.
  • See if I can make a better interaction plot, at least with the multifactor widget
  • Add plotting to the console
  • Added interaction.plot to RManova. Need to do the same for RMultifactorRepeated
  • Added PPM bugs to all the places we list them 🙂

Phil 4.26.2011

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • When I went in for my meeting with Trish and Christie, I found that Trish had called in sick. We will have to reschedule. Did talk to Christie a bit.
  • Somehow managed to blow away my firefox cache and spent a while trying to put that together again.
  • Tried logging in again with PuTTY – no luck. Tried to contact Alan Neff, but he was not in yet. Will have to pick this up again later today.
  • Tested Dong’s PPM code and promptly broke it. It’s a knack 🙂
  • Went back to the customer, but was unable to connect with Allan N.

Phil 4.25.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Multi-factor, within subject widget today – done
  • Adding roles to whitepaper – done
  • Tried to log into the new server. No luck. Brian did too, and couldn’t get in. It may have been that our accounts had not been activated?

Phil 4.22.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Happy Earth Day!
  • Here’s the list of additional items from Christie
    • On the Financial Data Request (the Monthly Status Report), under the Contract information — “Amount” can be removed – it is the same thing as “Contract Amount”. One will suffice.
    • Where is the “pilot data” you used for the example of the Update Financial Data Request (The Monthly Status Report)? We just want to be sure that the request form is pulling the correct data.
  • Added new items to the PPM list and the Bug Tracker. Also, fixed the statuses of the bugs that I submitted on Wednesday from ‘closed’ to ‘new’
  • I have a server account and password!
  • Talked to Trish. She, Christie and I will meet Tuesday at 8:00