Category Archives: Phil

Phil 9.17.2010

8:00 – 12:00 VISIBILITY

  • Data Visualizer running smoothly on site, but also very little use in the middle of the month
  • Rolled out the new BETA swf of PPM for Trish and Chris.
    • Contract info is not showing up in financial entry
    • Financial request POC should be blank
    • NSA Project Manager fields are pulling NSA Financial Manager data
    • Need to add a line for budget totals above financial grids
    • Need to add tooltips to “type” colum entries in financial entries

FP 12:00 – 4:00

  • Working on SigCHI paper.

Phil 9.16.2010

7:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

  • Things are running smoothly on site
  • Nobody is poking around in the Data Navigator right now, which makes me worried about the level of seriousness by the SLA folks
  • Trish and Chris didn’t enter any new user data
  • Talked to dong about the state of the current PPM system, and showed him a few screenshots from onsite.

12:30- 3:30 FP

  • Working on SigChi Paper. Need to finish the description and discussion sections.

Phil 9.15.2010

7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Meeting with Trish and Chris. Rolled out the “release version. This led to several changes being requested. Dong is working on rolling in changes so I can deploy Friday am.
    • Remove description from user registration
    • login should be firstname.lastname. Add a tooltip
    • Users should be able to edit their own user data
    • Make “Save User” button bigger. Says Save Us…
    • If the budget for a year is zero, don’t show or calculate panels
    • TRP Member in financial Data should read “NSA PM Name” and show NSA portfolio Manager
    • Total budget needs to be total budget by year (use a grid rather than a single field)
    • Financial tabs need FT Name and FT Number added to “Year XX” label
    • Make project rows sortable

2:00 – 3:30 FP

Phil 9.13.2010

8:00 – 10:00 VISIBILITY

  • Slow on site. Talked to John Williams. He likes the idea that we’re getting a cloud based Sharepoint Server. Also, the whole SiteWorks deal is that if there is a web developer component to a team, then SiteWorks can’t take any work away from that developer.

10:00 – 11:30

  • Ran cables top hard-wire our computers in because the wifi was too awful to use.

11:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Flex in a week
  • Walked through project setup for PPM going forward with Dong
    • The release version only has pgfeldm as a user (Admin privileges). Database is clean except for budget info (FY10 O&M, procurement, etc)
    • Default build is ProjportfolioMgrBeta.swf
    • Background image says “BETA”
    • Manual copy of the swf to ProjPortfolioMgr.swf when all tests are passed
    • There is a separate build for anything that changes the database. SWC has a background of “ALPHA”, and the java talks to a different database (project_portfolio_dev). This gets built and deployed to a different war file than the current release version so that testing can occur without harming the release version

2:00 – 5:00

  • Approved changes on provisional patent
  • Started on SIGCHI 2011 paper.

Phil 9.10.2010

7:30 – 2:30 – VISIBILITY

  • Everything is running smooth, which is a good thing seeing as we have a new office with no internet yet.
  • Spent a good deal of time working through scenarios with Keil about what and how to build things for the customer(s)
  • Worked on Flex in a week
  • Assembled a table for the FP

Phil 9.8.2010

8:00 – VISIBILITY

  • Everything looks good at the customer site. Kyle appears to have gotten his account.
  • Paul O has been poking around in visibility again
  • Need to add a map server to fgmdev. Ping’s Tom to do that.
  • Testing PPM with Dong
    • Yellow highlight doesn’t go away
    • “Working” clock icon
    • Double-click to bring up invoice
    • Edit invoice info from list
  • Sharepoint hosting? (http://myhosting.com/business-vps/sharepoint-services.aspx)
  • Had a thought about how to do code completion in the scripting system the same way that google scribe (http://scribe.googlelabs.com/) does it – basically take what other developers have done and suggest that.
  • Talked to Anne about moving SLA forward.
    • Wants a meeting with Brian, Anne, and I about setting up a SOW framework.

4:00 – 6:00 – move

  • Cleaned and assembled

Phil 9.7.2010

7:30 – 10:00

  • Meeting with Trish and Chris. Uncovered a few bugs and requests. Passed the info off to Dong.

10:00 – 1:30

  • Went over to Savage Mill to show our movers(?) what to assemble. Masked everything and started to paint, but got complaints. Will finish later today.

1:30 – 4:30

  • Flex in a week. Fortunately, Dong has downloaded all though itunes.

4:30 – 7:00

  • Savage Mill. Finished painting

Phil 9.3.2010

7:30 – 3:30

  • Everything is running smoothly on site
  • Had a meeting with the SLA folks. About 8 people, including Sheryl H., a senior sla(?). I was able to ingest some of their data during the demo, which went over very well. They are interested in putting together a SOW that covers getting new data from employees, restructuring the current tables/adding new tables to aid in getting the kind of staffing information they need, and extending visualization, for example to show a chart combining two columns. The next step will be to get some data that is closer to the raw forms in the master database, ingest that, and see what we can show with it. But this seems like a real possibility to get some regular development work.
  • 1:00 Meeting with Jim M.
    • Apparently Trish has been sick a lot, and busy as hell when she is in, which is why we haven’t gotten and contact with her recently. Going to try to get contact on Tuesday.
    • Introduced Kyle to Jim M
    • Got the ball rolling on getting the new Virtual Server. We’ll see how long that takes.
    • Briefed Brian on the earlier meeting with sdl.

Phil 8.27.2010

8:00 – 4:00

  • Deployed new PPM and started the process of setting up a meeting with Trish and Chris
  • Tried to get Murph to do something about logging into the server. He’s convinced that Brian can somehow do this
  • Sent a note to John DeMio asking him about his VISIBILITY experience
  • Lots of office stuff
  • Did send off the provisional patent though

Phil 8.25.2010

8:00 – 11:00 VISIBILITY

  • Fixed some aspects of Joe Noble’s account. Ingested some more data
  • Had a talk with John W.
    • John Gresh is leaving in a few weeks
    • Mike Cowan is probably leaving near Jan 1.
    • The current site will probably switch over to SharePoint, with an export of some kind going to SiteWorks. John wants to hand of the SharePoint work to us. I told him that we could probably automate a lot of it, including the SiteWorks export.
  • Walked through PPM with Dong

11:00 – 3:00 FP

  • Provisional patent. At page 8, in the Preferred Embodiment section

3:00 – 6:00 Savage Mill

  • Chairs, desk, fans, build out contacts, etc.