7:30 – 3:00 VISIBILITY

• Here’s Christie’s list from yesterday
  • Had a remote object fault where a send failed – Channel.Connect.Failed error – this happens when trying to “Create a Funding Request”. So that error has re-occurred.
  • When changes are made in the “Financial Status” data (i.e. Enter and save comments in a line). The updated entries do not save. For instance, I save the comments, return to the line and the comments I saved are no longer there.
  • When modifying a “Funding Request” and selecting a funding request to modify, we should be able to select a funding request based on the FY, Description, Appropriation and Funding Request Type. (i.e. MIPR, FAD, EA) – we don’t need to know the creator or mailing address
  • When entering information in Tab 3 (Finance Data), we should not be forced to add contract information as we often times do not receive this information until later. We should have the ability to enter what we can.
  • On Tab 2 (Funding Request Details) we should not be forced to enter the Period of Performance or the Obligation Deadline date. We should have the flexibility to fill this information in at a later date as well. In other words, all dates should have the ability to be left blank – we should not be forced to enter something just for the sake of entering something. It is much easier to go back and update when you see a blank space, than when you just put in any date
  • The “Search” feature under Tab 3 (Finance Data) for the purpose of selecting a contract is not working and all of the contracts are not available to select. The contract options run to the end of the screen and you cannot scroll down to view the other contracts.
  • Many of the SOWs are very lengthy. Not sure what, if anything can be done about that.
  • When creating a Funding Request, you must select the project. However, once you are actually in the Funding request, it does not state anywhere, which project you have selected. Suggest displaying the name of the project and the FY
  • Has the classification tool been discussed? Much of the exec summary is marked (S) and normally any funding information in marked (TS).

7:30 – 4:30VISIBILITY

• More repeated measures math confusion for today!
• Updated variance object to store strings without choking
• Showed Jared how to use MavenAssist
• Got repeated measures working, after futzing with a lot of parsing issues
• Try to upload some data to the server today? Nope, but did get in and talk to Bill. Brian also worked with Denise a bit to get me my admin account. In addition, Christie sent a list of bugs for PPM that I need to enter.

7:30 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

• Afternoon semi-scheduled meeting with Brian, Bill D., and Denise P.
• General clean up and bug fixing. Need to revisit the Power Wizard. There is a problem when calculating group size. Also, I really need to parse the result
• Mike F. Would like a demo of visibility.fgm.com. Had to fix my role permissions, but now everything seems to be working OK. Meeting is now scheduled for Monday at 1:30
• Showed Mike how to kickstart his bike

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Xray and ultrasound at 1:45
• Talked to Dong about the Scripting engine a bit. He’s going to take a look at a Jython tutorial. Also, showed him how to disable the “import” censor
• Finishing up MANOVA – done. Not much in the way of graphics…. Need to poke around the web
• Cleaning up makeTable()
• Pinged Trish, who is still busy. She asked me to stop until she sends an email stating that she’s looked at the printout.
• Got approval for getting an admin account. Next step? Also had a nice chat with Denise Price.
• Walked though desktop manager stuff with Mike

7:30 – 6:00 VISIBILITY

• Still sick, but better.
• Restructuring type I and type II marginal means to behave more like contrasts. Not sure if this will work or not. It didn’t.
• Building the MANOVA widget
• Added some one-click test data
• Meeting with Trish. Put off for another day
• Got pinged about my admin account request. Responded that I was still waiting.
• Talked to Jeff about getting on his servers.

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• Still got this cold. But now it’s out of my lungs and in my head. Wheee!
• Meeting with (who?) at S33P to talk about email system(?)
  • Trish didn’t have the time or focus to look at the spreadshjeet in detail, but she said that she would look at it tomorrow and reply with comments in an email.
• Interview with Terry

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• Playing phone tag with John P. About admin accounts. He also called about some data that they added to the VISIBILITY data stream that may not be showing up. Since there’s no contract there any more, I couldn’t help much.
• Finished up the power and effect size calculations in the Power Wizard
• Lunch for Sophia, who started today. She might also be helping Dong with report-building queries.

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Got a cold. Ick.
• Working on a way to get exact p out of the qf function in R
• Done! Below is my first function in R

function(calcF, dfNum, dfDenom, limit = 0.001, iter=100){

 alpha = 1;
 oldAlpha = 1;
 step = 0.5;

 for(i in 1:iter){
 newCritF = qf(alpha, dfNum, dfDenom, lower.tail = F);    
 #show(c(alpha, newCritF, calcF-newCritF, step));

 newDiff = calcF - newCritF;
 if(abs(newDiff) < limit){
 return (alpha);
 }
 if(newCritF > calcF){
 alpha = oldAlpha;
 step = step * 0.5;
 }

 oldAlpha = alpha;
 alpha = alpha-step;
 }

 return(alpha);
}

7:30 – 7:00 VISIBILITY

• Meeting with Trish and Christie. Trish wants the following:
  • All rows from the Financial Entry tables, including the obligation and outlay goals, and percentages
  • Contract information
  • Trish asked if the online version would be available in 30 days. I said that it was likely that we would be on the test platform in 30, but probably not on the production server
  • Trish has more requests, but they are waiting until these actions are finished and approved
  • We missed this mailing. The next will be the first of May.
• Went over the new requests with Dong, who will now “not be bored”
• Finishing up white paper – done
• Requested more space on fgmdev

7:30 – 6:00 VISIBILITY

• Showed Dong the DB problems with PPM
• More proposal – done with first draft!

7:30 – 5:00

• Writing up laser pointer whitepaper – some progress
• Working on Test Wizard – done
• 2:00 meeting with Bill D. and others? Nope.
• Finished Two-way Anova

7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

• Went over roles with Dong. Here’s the basic idea (I’m adding this to the bug list as well
  • Admin – Everything from NSA and Site, plus
    • Add User
    • Delete User
    • Modify User
    • Modify database elements
  • NSA- Everything from Site, plus
    • Ability to view all projects and financial data
    • Project Creation
    • Project Deletion
    • Assignment of users to projects
    • Request reports
  • Site
    • View only projects that the user is assigned to
    • Modify project data
    • Modify financial data
    • Cannot change project assignments (may possibly be able to change site assignments)
• Meeting with Bill D. The request for admin has been changed to  a change request. Did the regular backups.
• Got started on the Test Wizard

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• fgmdev is running really low on RAM. Looking into how to upgrade that.
• Check up on my various accounts
• Got most of the complex contrast parts in. Finish up on Monday
• My request for an admin account has been approved. That doesn’t mean I have the account yet, just the approval to get the account.
• My charting is not working when I’m reading in three values. Need to debug;
• Write up whitepaper on insurgent laser pointer

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

• They are calling for snow tomorrow. That is the same tomorrow that is the first day of April tomorrow. The one that is 12 days into spring. That tomorrow. Here’s hoping it’s an April fools prank and that it will actually be 72 and sunny!
• Adding an actionscript computed F test class. Done and working. Going to extend that to handle contrasts
• Tomorrow:
  • Add contrast columns
  • Extend Ftest class to ComplexContrast class
  • Add adjustments for number of contrasts and pre-post hoc.