Category Archives: Phil

Phil 11.4.2010

7:30 – 9:00 VISIBILITY

  • Nothing new with the customer. VISIBILITY is running well and getting used quite a bit. Left Christie a note saying that we’d be rolling out the new version of PPM early next week.

9:00 – 6:30 FP

  • Building fingers. You can reach me on my cell at 410.300.7293

  • Hand with actuators

Phil 11.3.2010

8:00 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

  • Working with getting XML to produce an ImageScreen. Getting images now, need to work with organizing next.
  • It turns out that the Math.Random() method is not seedable. Had to write a new random class that uses the BitmapData.noise() method, which you *can* seed. The class creates a bitmap and then reads the pixel values as the random numbers. It returns a uint, int, or Number. Put it up on fgmdev.com

10:00 – 12:00 Physical.

Phil 11.2.2010

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Talked to Dong storing retrieving multiple users and meshing with the current DB.
  • Weather sealed the giant’ leaky windows
  • Working on Air app
    • Added static data dictionary for moving data beween components. I just don’t like passing data with events.
    • This doesn’t work. Not sure why: ChangeWatcher.watch(this, “xmlDataProvider”, handleXmlChange);
    • Looping over XML for loading into SequenceScreens

Phil 11.1.2010

7:30 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

  • Working on putting together a reference AIR App
    • Login Screen
    • Read/write to a local file (xml)
    • Pull images from local and remote sources
    • Remote object interaction?
    • Charting
    • Config file, with autologin (anything else?)
    • Skins
    • packaged assets?
  • Air application is not being properly created with maven.
    • Need to change the <dependency><groupId>com.adobe.flex.framework</groupId><artifactId>flex-framework</artifactId></dependency> to <dependency><groupId>com.adobe.flex.framework</groupId><artifactId>air-framework</artifactId></dependency>
    • Have to update MvnAssist a bit. Also, flexmojos standin is still being called.
  • Going to work the initial version in Flashbuilder
    • Some trouble creating an Air app that would work in design vew. No reason, it seems. Deleting and doing the same thing worked (After closing and restarting Eclipse)
    • Got states working
    • Navigating the file system
    • opening files and reading XML

Phil 10.29.2010

8:00 – VISIBILITY

Phil 10.28.2010

7:30 – 9:30 VISIBILITY

  • Meeting with Christie R.
    • There is some problem with the budget summing rollup in the project summary. I’ve printed screenshots and handed to Dong
    • We should change the panels that are used to select projects to DynamicPanel. Things need to be resizable, and we should add the search.
    • Search fields
      • Project ID
      • Project Name
      • People
      • Service

9:30 – 3:30 FP

  • Building more fingers
  • Actually, one of these fingers is a bit skewed. I think I need to face the posts.

Phil 10.27.2010

7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Fixed the table that was misbehaving for Anne. It turns out that you can’t have a ‘/’ in a column header and still expect Google SQL to handle it. Need to add that to the substitutions in the ingestors
  • Working out a fancier password system. Done. To test, I’ve put Tom’s Dong’s and my accounts into the system. If it’s working tomorrow, we’ll transfer more of the accounts over

2:00 – 3:00 FP

  • Demo for Mike F. and Scott G.

Phil 10.26.2010

8:00 – 5:00VISIBILITY

  • Well, the server is mostly back up
    • Wrote up a description of what happened for Laurie
  • Got additional req’s from Christina for PPM. Went over them with Dong.
    • Open multiple projects for editing or modifying
    • A “back” button that re-launches the previous panel. The best way to do this may be to extend the LayoutManager to store the panel with an associated data object? Unsure about this
    • All personnel fields should be able to handle multiple entries. I’m thinking that a variant on the “Add New” combobox might work here.
    • The Portfolio Manager in a funding request also needs to handle multiple entries
    • Look for duplicate projects. The thought is that if the budget values and the service match, then an alert could be shown that warns of the potential match
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 5, Episode 2
    • Day 5, Episode 3
    • Day 5, Episode 4
  • Anne had some problems with a query not showing up in the data visualizer. Will try and see what’s up tomorrow.

Phil 10.25.2010

7:30 – VISIBILITY

  • PPM is getting used. Talked to Christie Richard, who is entering most of the data. She has a list of suggestions
    • She needs to be sysadm to view projects she creates. We need to make it so that if you create a project, you should still be able to see it.
    • We need to make it so that projects can be created piecemeal. The minimum amount of information should be the project name and ID, but after that, the user should be able to enter data in any order or amount.
      • An incomplete project is one that does not have all the fields plus (sufficient? e.g. something other than all zeros) financial data entered.
      • There should be an INCOMPLETE warning in the title bar if a project is not sufficiently entered. Maybe we can flag that in the project list by highlighting the row, or being able to filter on incomplete projects.
      • It might be worth having an alert come up that indicates what still needs to be done on an incomplete project.
    • She’d like the ability to enter more than one POC for a project. Need to find out just what fields those are. Is this just on project creation or also other forms, such as creating funding requests
    • Add a per-project comment log. It should be visible on the project page and the enter financial data forms (Maybe funding request as well?). There should be an entry field that is editable, and then a text area (searchable?) that shown entries with timestamps and user id.
  • Worked on the MavenAssist site with Dong. The updater site is up, as is a download site. The home page is prettier (it’s a copy of our own web page on MavenAssist)

Phil 10.21.2010

7:30 – 3:30VISIBILITY

  • Morning meeting with John W. and Kathy W. Going to set up a demo of PPM for sometime next week.
  • Testing Keil’s code by adding/editing stuff
  • Added a lot of text about our projects
  • Having Tom put up latest versions of everything
  • Wrote up a description of my tasks for CATWALK
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 5 Episode 1

Phil 10.21.2010

7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Cool thing of the day – VMWare will be offering integrated cloud development. Initially it will support java and run as an Eclipse plugin
  • Added BSD License information to MavenAssist
  • To sftp to the sourceforge MavenAssist site using winSCP, do the following:
    • sftp://frs.sourceforge.net
    • user: <username>,mavenassist
    • password
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 4 Episode 9
    • Day 4 Episode 10 – Transitions are *hugely* improved over Flex3.
  • Off to midterm!

Phil 10.20.2010

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Everything is running fine on site. All the new code is up, and no complaints.
  • Had to write up a justification for Tom to John W. I said that he was working on the Database Servlet, and depending on needs would probably be working on a continuous build process next.
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 4 Episode 4 – nice feature: Using a ViewStackas a data provider will allow a TabBart or ButtonBar (mx or spark) to read the labels of the Viewstack’s components and build the bar automatically.
    • Day 4 Episode 5
    • Day 4 Episode 6
    • Day 4 Episode 7
    • Day 4 Episode 8
    • Day 4 Episode 9
  • Set up MvnAssist as a project on sourceforge: http://mavenassist.sourceforge.net/

Phil 10.19.2010

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed new versions of Data Viz, Ingest Manager, Account Manager and Scripting Server. Verified that they were, in fact, new.
  • Flex In a week
    • Day 3, Episode 10 – The data wizard did not work. Not sure if it’s worth the extra complexity, either. MXML takes care of this task pretty well.
    • Day 4, Episode 1
    • Day 4, Episode 2
    • Day 4, Episode 3

Phil 10.18.2010

8:00 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

  • Took Pat off the VISIBILITY accounts
  • Added SLA privileges to Anne
  • It looks like there is some progress in getting Matt his data
  • Adam responded to my note about adding logging. So at least we’re all up to date. Not sure what to do until they want to start adding in data
  • Interviewed Christine Alfano
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 3 Episode 3
    • Day 3 Episode 4
    • Day 3 Episode 5
    • Day 3 Episode 6
    • Day 3 Episode 7 – Ok, two-way binding is both cool and easy 🙂

Phil 10.15.2010

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Send a note to Adam, Trish and Murph that we’ve added logging, so it’s possible to get the trending information that was asked for in the demo
  • Coordinated with Dong over MvnAssist
  • Took some pictures of the space and surroundings for Keil’s website
  • Writing up short descriptions of the apps for the website
    • Data Navigator – done
    • Ingest Manager – done
    • Scripting – done
    • Accounts Manager – done
    • Automated online webzine – not sure what to do about this…
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 3 Episode 2