8:00 – 3:30

• Nothing new onsite
• Rolling in Mike’s changes. Test out on Laureldemo
• Making a TextPanel that will work with text using the current TextArea until Adobe gets TextFlow working properly – or until their documentation can explain to me how to effectively reload a TextFlow object. Grrrrr.
• May take off early to look at countertops
• Called Anita Komlodi about PhD program
• So in 1/2 day, I was able to make my text entry work with a RichTextEditor, instead of a week banging on TextFlow. Going to work on rolling in component.
• Webex meeting at 1:00
• Talked to Bill Howard about oceanic data. He said put some fake data together for the demo. Later.
• Integrate TextSaveStatePanel tomorrow.

8:00 – 5:30

• Showed John W how to use the ‘like’ SQL command
• Found out some about LDAT. It does look like something useable
• Took 90 min off to deal with kitchen construction issues
• Starting on the TextPanel – Got it so that I can save and load a panel, but if I try to save a panel that has been reloaded, the <span> information does not change…

8:00 – 4:00

• Gave a link to the edgeDemo account to Jeff
• Got VAccordion working
• S14 meeting at 1:15
• Need to do a text box that ties into visibility desktops.
• Got VAccordion working. Had a bit of a problem with the left-right alignment, but got that dealt with by setting textAlign in the VBoxes
• Used mvnAssist to deploy flexlib 2.4 to our repo

8:00 – 5:00

• Added ‘validation’ XML to the emplyees_standard details tab
• Trying to find out what FACTS is
  • AOC Solutions (http://www.aocsolutions.com/) appears to have done some work integrating with FACTS:
  • In 2008, following DIA’s migration to its new core accounting system (FACTS), AOC upgraded these interfaces with a new, centralized, web-based translator that today provides DIA with an automated interface from each feeder system into FACTS. A web-based interface also was developed by AOC to integrate source accounting data from the Department of State into FACTS for the Defense Attaché.
  • More links
    • http://www.dfas.mil/more/dfasfreedomofinformationactprivacyact/dfaspia/PIAODS.pdf
    • http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=koo&q=%22Financial+Accounting+and+Corporate+Tracking+System%22&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=
• More playing with Mike’s changes to VISIBILITY. Mike called and we worked through the issues. He’s going to work on things, and I’m going to get VAccordion working using TextFlow, which has to be good for something….
• Found a bug in MvnAssist and fixed it. All repositories are now declared in the settings.xml file
• Worked for an hour or so finding a good input device we can repurpose for the kinetic interface that we can adapt. Found some good stuff.

7:30 – 5:00

• Tried to replicate John’s problem with no luck. For me at least, everything is working fine.
• Installing Mike’s changes.
• Now that I know that TextFlow can’t, well, actually *flow* text, I’m trying to figure out what might be a reasonable solution. Maybe a text widget for annotating items in VISIBILITY.
• Numerous meetings
  • Theresa Young
    • FACTS is the Financial Accounting and Corporate Tracking System. It’s part of FMS – Financial Management Solutions. Need to find out what platform it’s based on. It’s a way of tracking money as it moves from target through obligated to outlay
    • All interaction is through a web interface. No one seems to know about a machine-machine interface.
    • If we can get a ‘BF-5’ person, they can explain more info as it pertains to S14
    • BF-5 is the ‘general ledger’. There are some good people that we can talk to
    • Janet Davis -chief
    • Arlin White Sr. Exec
    • Alex Smith – Sr. Exec to Comptroler
  • Impromptu demo of VISIBILITY to Jeff Cooper and his boss(?). They want to use VISIBILITY to do something with their dataset. Could be as high as 100,000 rows

7:30 – 8:30, 11:30 – 3:30

• Had to go choose floor tile this morning.
• Working on text flow. There is definitively *not* the capability to flow around a graphic or other component (http://blogs.adobe.com/tlf/2008/11/welcome-to-the-text-layout-fra.html). WTF!? Grr. Need to work on an alternative.
• Exchanged email with Yoland about Visibility capabilities, particularly WRT GIS and connected graphs.
• There seems to be some problem with IE downloading excel spreadsheets under certain conditions. Will check out tomorrow.
• Fixed a problem with the querybuilder where strings were not being converted into xml correctly

8:00 – 4:00

• Spent some time with Dong walking through using Interfaces for what he’s trying to do. Not sure if it worked because-
• Meeting with Anne and Yonald Chery of SID, 10:30 – 1:00. Which I had totally forgotten about. Had to scramble a bit to get Appboard running on my box and get it over to the site.
• Anne called. The demo went well. Apparently there are some next steps.
• More work with Dong, chasing down the reason why wrapped display objects had no parent.

8:00 – 4:00

• More Freaking Fantastic FlexText!
• 1:00 meeting with Theresa Norris Ops1 3N075-1 – Postponed to next Tuesday
• Dong needed to be able to delete ObjectWrappers, so I added WrapperManager.removeWrapper(name:String)
• Making progress on TextFlow – can now flow text between two objects
• My car is leaking radiator fluid. Getting it towed.

8:00 – 3:30

• Ingested the Infotek data successfully, but the trend widget chokes on it. Asked mike to fix.
• Looking at the TextLayoutFramework as a way to build reports. Made some progress.
• It turns out that my badge has expired, which is why I can’t get through the turnstiles. Fixed

7:30 – 4:00

• Got an “Access Denied” going through the turnstiles today. I’m guessing that this is a side-effect of switching over to FGM. Need to work this out with Brian(?) and our security officer. Talked to Brian and Angie about this. Angie’s looking into it.
• Realized over the weekend that ObjectWrappers need a “clear code buffer” so they don’t store every call for relaunch. Done.
• Commenting serializing code and adding to the Utils class
• Mike’s back!
• Installed the “Dina” programming font, which I like a lot: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/
• Need to deploy a new version of VISIBILITY incorporating Mike’s changes to LaurelDemo and S2F. Disk is burned and Laureldemo is up
• Looking at the TextLayout library for Flex (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/). And heads up! Flex 4 is in Beta2 and due out early this year!

8:00 – 4:00

• Working on reading in generated XML – done!. The code parts are definately going to be needed for setting up percentWidth and so forth. THe serialized object records the static dimensions
• 11:00 Meeting with ITK

7:30 – 4:00

• Deployed new version of IngestManager that keeps “illegal” characters out of table names
• More Serializer work – got most of the writing out done, now I need to read in.
• Meeting at 12:15 – 1:45 get aquanted meeting with Scott Gessay (FGM CEO)

8:00 – 5:00

• Showed John W how to upload and ingest files. We need to prevent hyphens in table names- fixed
• S14 meeting at 10:00 – Need to get some data ingested and shown in Visibility. Not sure what that means and also how much of the trend widget we’ll need mere.
• Showed some more folks in S2F how to use visibility and ingest files
• Moved actual parsing of code from the WrapperManager to the ObjectWrapper
• Talked to Anne, she has a demo next week that might also have a dashboard component. Maybe the best thing to do is get the TUMMS codebase. I wonder if I have any screenshots.

7:30 -3:30

• Forgot to drop off the user docs today. Burned a disk and stuck it in my coat. That should help
• Working on reading in a Data Provider. Works – generalizing. Added and then deleted ArrayCollection, since Arrays are easier to work with. Added Object as a “simple” type.
• Added a WrapperManager to the XmlSerializer package. Still only at about 500 lines.
• Next, update the serialization so that the data includes the “code”.

8:00 – 4:30

• Darn, missed the chance to enter a date of 01.10.10 yesterday. Now we have to wait for October for more binary fun.
• Working on seeing how to connect to runtime defined data as a dataprovider to an instanced class. Oddly, this is the third time I’ve done something like this, first in C++, then in Java, and now in Actionscript. Need to go look for a documented pattern.
• Tried to do my timesheet, but no luck getting charge numbers
• S14 Meeting on Wednesday at 10:00
• Dev meeting meeting here on Thursday at 12:30
• Am now reading in XML and using it to set proerties and passing arguments to functions. Next, handle arrays for dataproviders and serialize the whole thing out.