Category Archives: Phil

Phil 7.7.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Remembered my SF-86 stuff, so more paperwork today
  • And when I’m done with that, work on the web IDE paper
  • OK, I brought in the wrong (well, incomplete) forms. Working on the paper instead.
  • According to Vernon, The firewall request I had submitted was never going to get processed because it was associated with the wrong type of ticket. He created a new ticket, which I have now associated the request with. This is the most fun ever!

Phil 7.6.11

8:00 – 4:00

  • It looks like the webIDE concept is going to require a server that supports VMs in hardware. At this point, it’s no longer something that I can do on my own, so I’m going to write a whitepaper for FGM specifying what’s needed and punt.
  • Prepping the hand for a demo. Have forgotten how to calibrate the sensors, which have drifted. Oh. No power supply == no sensors. That’s whatr those two wires were for…
  • Well this is cool: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/control-the-desktop-with-your-mobile-device/
  • Also good: http://www.paultrani.com/blog/index.php/category/flashactionscript/
  • In the ongoing saga of our problem child server, Vernon sent out an email that he had addressed all concerns. I responded that port 443 was still closed and attached screenshots of everything working fine inside the firewall and blocked outside. Gee, I wonder if there will be any progress tomorrow?
  • Made some progress on my SF86, but forgot to bring in my old form.

Phil 7.5.11

7:30 – 3:30VISIBILITY

  • OK, where was I? Let’s see – the server is still up and the compiler is still working. The choice is either to a) see how it runs on the actual Internet or b) start working on virtualization.
  • Looking at virtualization first.
    • Ubuntu has a script-driven system called vm-builder, but it’s at version 0.12. Here is some documentation.
    • IBM paper describing the process. It’s for Red Hat, but a good start
    • Hmmm. You need hardware support for VMs. If you run “grep -E ‘vmx|svm’ /proc/cpuinfo” and get a non-null result, you’ve got it. My server does not. fgmedev does, but it’s a vm already, so what does that mean?
  • Gave Jeff all the information I think he needs to get the paperwerk approved for his server. I gave him a followup call to verify that the information was what he needed and he seemed to think so. That being said, he was going to give the info to someone else to enter, so thay may have questions later as they get into the details
  • Started on my SF86 update

Phil 6.23.11

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

  • I’ve reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 after all of yesterday’s (failed) efforts. Trying FreeNX, following the directions here.
    • Installed openSSH
    • apt-get install freenx took *forever*. I think it installs gnome…
    • Might need this later – we’ll see.
    • KDE didn’t work, but GNOME did! Looks nice, and the server required no addition of the desktop outside of the basic install. However, it seems to have limited functionality. For example, I can’t launch a terminal window and the ‘Accessories’ menu is not there.
    • Going to try installing the standard ubuntu desktop (i.e. apt-get install ubuntu_desktop. Well, another long install, but things work quite nicely now.
    • Installed Eclipse (New version – Indigo!). Needs Java
    • Installed Java
  • Worked on the server some more. Sent Jeff an email with a link to a page that show how to set up the interface.
  • Talked to Vernon about my login problems. He thinks that it’s the result of a reorg they are going through. Still no luck with my SSL port.Testing the new PPM. It appears to still be missing the capability of setting it so that a user with a particular role is only able to see projects that they are associated with (as a Program Manager, Financial Analyst or POC(?). Added as bug 6097.

Phil 6.22.11

8:00 – 7:00 VISIBILITY

Phil 6.20.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

Phil 6.17.11

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Working on getting VNC or something similar runing on my Linux box
  • Installed VNC server according to the directions here: http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Configure-the-server/Install-VNC.html
  • Have the vnc server and client running, but can’t control the desktop. Could be because I’m logged into the server. Going to install updates, restart, and try without being logged in.
  • Got VNC running without a click of ‘OK’ on the server, but I still have to be logged in.
  • Brian has to fill out a (SPF?) form to get Jeff’s server onto both networks. Looks like we need some additional approval, too.

Phil 6.16.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • FB 4.5 appears to be happy and integrated. Back to the cloud IDE
  • looking at the jEdit plug-in architecture, which has a nice example (http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/plugin-implement.html).
    • Oh, drat. jEdit can’t work with Web Start: http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/installation.html#id446561. This is due to the plugin architecture (i.e dynamic loading).
    • Eclipse appears to work with Web Start. On the other hand, downloading the Eclipse environment and using remote file access could be a lot less effort, and download time. My concern is that eclipse comes with java compilers, which take up room and slow the download.
    • According to this FAQ (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/TM_and_RSE_FAQ), the best option is to install Eclipse on the server and remote desktop in with a VNC such as NX Server.
    • Set up an Ubuntu box in my office to play with.
  • Nothing going on with our probnlem server, except that more people are noticing that they can’t get their VMs set up either… Bill. D. did give us a nice shout out though 🙂

Phil 6.15.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Testing flexMojosStandin – not working yet
    • Copied over the <libraryPath> children from the working version in CVS. No change
    • Changed <actionScriptProperties version=”3″> to <actionScriptProperties version=”3″>. No change
    • Changed <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”3″> to <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”0″>. Compiles now!
  • Not that I have a solution, looking for the minimum change that converts a flexmojos-generated file to a working one.
    • Changed <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”3″> to <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”0″>.
  • Added all the changes back into MavenAssist and added a checkbox to enable disable the flexMojos bypass.
  • No progress on our problem server today – now we have different groups saying that it’s someone else’s job to open the port

Phil 6.14.11

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Forgot to bring the cat in off the deck.
    • Back now. Cat was happily sleeping in a patch of sun, with his chin on a paving stone. He was not all that interested in coming in.
  • Can build FGMUtils45 with maven, but not with FlexBuilder. Trying Mike’s test of rebooting. Nope. It looks like flexmojos is screwing up again. I’m going to try putting the flexMojosStandin() method back in, probably with a checkbox to enable, since this seems to pop up a lot.
  • Phone screen with Tim Lotz.
  • Indoc at 1:30.
  • Added a checkbox to Maven assist that allows you to bypass flexbuilder:flexmojos and use the internal .actionscriptproperties code. We’ll see if that helps with the current problem.

Phil 6.13.11

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • 1:30 kickoff(?) meeting tomorrow.
  • Installing Flashbuilder 4.5
    • Installed, but when I tried to point my FB4 Eclipse to the new SDK, I got compile errors that Eclipse couldn’t find the player.
    • Looked around for help on installing FB4.5 as a plugin, and found this: (http://joeygutierrez.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/flash-builder-4-5-plugin/). It turns out that in the installation folder, under ‘utilities’, is the ‘Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Plug-in Utility.exe’
    • Tried running the plug in utility, but it choked on my 64-bit version of eclipse, which amusingly enough FB4 had no problem with. Going to go download the latest Eclipse 32-bit version now…
    • Well, that appeared to work. Now we just have to put all the plugins together again.
  • FGMUtils chokes on DataGridColumn, trying out FGMFlexUtils45.
    • Which doesn’t have a pom file. WTF? Waiting for Mike.
  • Deployed Visibility3, Visibility Scripting on Jeff’s server
  • Added the accounts Brian asked for