8:00 – 3:00VISIBILITY

• Tried to deploy the new version of PPM, but the properties files (only!) were corrupted. Restored the previous version (which was reloading the war, and updating the swfs – need to take a snapshot before an update from now on). Came back here to discover all the files were fine. So I’ve zipped it up and burned it to disk for take 2.
• Meeting with Matt H. and Anne G. at 1:00 today.
  • Meeting went well Anne will try to get some data out of one of the databases we’re interested in once she gets her account reactivated. We’ll put together a demo based on that data. Explained the funding issues to Matt, and he’s willing to go to bat for us. The demo will help.
• Burning new versions of VISIBILITY (Data Vis, Scripting, etc) to bring in, since I’ll be there a while today.
• Asked Keil to infuse the fgmdev.com index page with awesomeness.
• Day 3 Episode 1 – installing the project file and my OS just. Gave. Up. Rebooting.

8:00 – 4:00VISIBILITY

• Set up a preliminary Meeting with LTC Mike H. to demonstrate VISIBILITY for Friday am.
• Talked to Dong about the ChangeLog query builder component.
• S33P Meeting
  • Brian, Phil, Murph, Hoop, Bill, Dave.
  • Intent is to hand off the use of the tool to Capt. Anglin(sp?), but to keep foot in for funiding and requirements
  • Suggestion is to have Trish come out and we can record her using the tool
  • “Suggest Feature” button. Brings up a dialog so that requests can be stored then later evaluated for priority
  • Training is highest priority, along with getting FY11 data entered. We offered to help with that, since it would give us use of the system in its targeted environment with actual data.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 2 Episode 9
  • Day2 Episode 10

8:00 – 9:00 pm

• Masha M. Is still poking around in VISIBILITY
• Talked with Frank G. about Dong and VISIBILITY. Explained that Dong had been on Catwalk, but moved to SENSIAC when the money dried up. Then I showed Frank the current state of VISIBILITY, which he liked a lot. He’s going to see if S2F would be interested in a financial entry system like S33P.
• Dong is having a problem with building MySqlIf. Among the problems, it looks like selectNode is working too simplistically. Switched to findNodeByFullName(), which needed to be tweaked as well.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 2 Episode 5
    • You can now set conditional breakpoints. Right click on the breakpoint, select “properties”, and then set the condition (i.e. “foo > 10”);
  • Day 2 Episode 6
  • Day 2 Episode 9
• Helped Keil out with some remote object and warfile building
• Flex Users Group
  • Presentation by Chris Gemignani of Juce Analytics. They have developed a set of open-source libraries for handling large sets of data client-side in Flex. The product is called JuceKit (http://www.juicekit.org/)
  • JuceKit is  built on the flare actionscript library (http://flare.prefuse.org/), which is also a good resource. Nice high performance as well.
  • Another very cool thing was  protovis, which was written by the guy who wrote flare. It’s all in javascript and looks amazingly good. It runs in Firefox and Chrome, but doesn’t in IE. Not sure about the others.
  • Juce Analytics is starting to use Maven to do their builds. Apparantly they’ve gottenthings working well with FB4? I got Chris G’s contact information, and will pursue – (chris.gemignani@juiceanalytics.com, phone: 571.205.4789)

7:30 – 3:30

• Deployed the new PPM. Tested the user management with the real data. All seems to be well.
• 10:30 PPM meeting – wnt well. More notes later
• We’ll need data logging and mining for PPM. Talked to Dong about this a bit. THis might be a nice opportunity to build a small tool entirely in Flex4. I’m thinking that it should build the python script and set up ingestion so that the visualizer can plot something meaningful.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 2 Episode 3
  • Day 2 Episode 4 – cool thing for the day – FB will stub out your result handler from a Service. Just code complete ater the ‘result = “”‘ element, and it will provide a generated name for the method. Hover over the function name and click when it becomes a link. Then FB will stub out the method.

7:30 – 3:30

• Meeting with Anne and the folks responsible for the OG reporting
• Got a parking ticket. Whee.
• Burned Dong’s new PPM to disk
• Wrote up notes.

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Absolutely nothing going on at site.
• Dentist
• Walked through some testing automation with Dong. Kinda disappointing
• Found some bugs in PPM user management
• Wrote up a description of the forecasting project for Keil.
• Flex in a week
  • Day 2 Episode 2 – Has a really good explanation of target vs. current target and the phases that an event goes through : capture, target, bubble.

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Deployed the PPM Dong fixed yesterday
• Need to determine the version(s) of the VISIBILITY applications we have and update the about window.
• Jeremy is coming by for a beer at 3:30
• Flex in a Week
  • Day 1 Episode 14
  • Day 1 Episode 15

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• 10:30 PPM meeting. Meet Trish at 10:00. Nope cancelled until next week at the same time. End of FY crunch apparently.
• Adding version box to Ingest Manager, Accounts Manager and Scripting Server. Done. Not sure what to do about the dashboard bug. It’s very difficult to replicate.
• Back to Flex in a week
  • Day 1 Episode 11
  • Day 1 Episode 12 – The Network Monitor is a nice touch.
  • Day 1 Episode 13
• Painted our fake conduit

7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• Deployed new PPM. Went through a quick sanity check with Trish, who had *no* suggestions/fixes. I think we’re ready for the demo. Be there tomorrow at 10:00
• Discovered that Lou Ann is working with CMM. I sent her a hi! note and described VISIBILITY a bit. We’ll see what happens.
• Looking into the role issue from Friday. Found it. Tables that the user can see are based on loaded tables. If you make a table and then use it in a dashboard, you won’t be able to use it until you log in again. Going to add to the tableList
• Had to deal with some Eclipse 3.5.1 -> 3.6.0 eclipse issues. First, I forgot that M2_REPO had to be in the project’s link list. Then there were a few POM problems (version stuff mostly), and then there were some issues with access permissions on some files that the Ingest Manager server code was using. Seems to be working now.
• Added Dong’s version popup to the Data Visualization app. Going to add it to the other apps in the suite as well.

7:30 – 3:30VISIBILITY

• Meeting with Trish. I have screenshots of the following
  • Budget Center Management still has duplicate entries
  • Financial panels need to be sorted by date first, in ascending order
  • Incorrect inclusion of title on Financial Panel General data
  • Name lists should be sorted by last name. It looks like they are sorted by first
  • Funding request is throwing an amount mismatch warning incorrectly
  • All entry fields in Financial Entry should have “cumulative” tooltip. In addition, “Reported Outlay $” should have “(In Service’s Financial System)”, and PM Actual Outlay $ should have “(Invoiced Work – anything not reflected in Reported)”
  • There should not be a justification brought up for PM Actuals Outlay
  • A Contract Number dropdown in the “Add Fundings” dialog is desired.
• Walked through Trish’s issues with Dong
• Tested Dong’s fixes
• Burned a disk

FP

• Tom got the sensors wired up and working
• Rewrote sections of the paper to incorporate kinesthetic feedback
• Resubmitted paper