Phil 4.25.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

Multi-factor, within subject widget today – done
Adding roles to whitepaper – done
Tried to log into the new server. No luck. Brian did too, and couldn’t get in. It may have been that our accounts had not been activated?

Dong Shin 04.22.2011

Went over the bugs list in the blog, updated status of fixed ones
More memory on FGMDEV!
PPM Changes
- Period of Performance Dates and Obligation Date Deadline not required
- DateFields can be cleared by Control-Click on the same date
- added columns to search on Contracts window
- added toolTips to Contracts Window
- set the ContractsDataGrid’s max rowCount to 20
- added AmountTextInput for Contract Amount

Phil 4.22.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

Happy Earth Day!
Here’s the list of additional items from Christie
- On the Financial Data Request (the Monthly Status Report), under the Contract information — “Amount” can be removed – it is the same thing as “Contract Amount”. One will suffice.
- Where is the “pilot data” you used for the example of the Update Financial Data Request (The Monthly Status Report)? We just want to be sure that the request form is pulling the correct data.
Added new items to the PPM list and the Bug Tracker. Also, fixed the statuses of the bugs that I submitted on Wednesday from ‘closed’ to ‘new’
I have a server account and password!
Talked to Trish. She, Christie and I will meet Tuesday at 8:00

Mike 4.21.2011

Obviously after people are able to view reports they are going to want to edit them so I started working on an editor strategy. Too keep in line with architecture, report sections are going to be individually editable. So when constructing a report, the user starts by creating the outline and inserting sections (as you should when creating any document), then fill it in one section at a time. Mousing over a section turns on an ‘edit’ button. Clicking the edit button will bring up the appropriate UI for the component. The first one will be a very simple HTML editor for editing text. Others will be needed for changing image source / size as well as constructing tables and inserting data.

Dong Shin 04.21.2011

PPM Changes
- added FY, Description, Appropriation, Funding Type to Funding Request Select window
- removed contract checking on Direct Cites so that contracts are not required and can be added/changed later
- fixed a bug Outlay Amount not showing up correctly in Direct Cites
- Project Information (Project Number, Title, Budget) added to Funding Request

Phil 4.21.11

8:00 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

Dong’s back! Going over Christie’s list
Got a few more items yesterday that I’ll have to add later. Also, I tried doing the same thing that caused the remote object error and everything worked fine. Curious.
Can no longer reach the enclave drives from the Edge server. Asked the new admin if that could re-enabled. It’s not a show stopper, since I can move zipped backup files to a web directory and pull them down to my local machine that way.
Built the digital picture fame holder for Brian.
List of data visualization tools: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214755/Image_gallery_22_free_tools_for_data_visualization_and_analysis
Finished up multiple measures one-way ANOVA and added contrasts
Went over how to add editing to Mike’s app. Decided that the best combination of simplicity and usability would be to have popup editors for sections.

Mike 4.20.2011

Resolved my desktop import / export issue. It was basically a race condition problem when reading in the configuration. The desktop would start building itself before the entire configuration file was read in causing null pointer exceptions. So if I read the configuration in backwards it works just fine.

Spoke with Brian a little about talking about thinking about speaking about setting up a meeting to talk about a possible meeting about showing a demo to someone, again. Went back to check on my stand alone demo that doesn’t require a server to run. Fixed a few broken issues:

First I pulled all the code out to a separate project to avoid breaking the real one and having this aging issue again.
Resolved an issue that was preventing the commenting system from coming up all without a server connection.
Got the sample quad chart to come up again and provide link button back to the original report.
Fixed the old navigation system so the report opens and scrolls to whatever part of the outline you click on.

Demo should be good to go.

Tom.DeVito 4.19.2011

Tone Generation:

Tried to get this working on my desktop but then remembered my sound card was fried and I was using the mobo one. The mobo doesn’t support sound output recording.
Considered getting a new sound card but they were all expensive
Tried again with my laptop. Took a couple hours of deleting and reinstalling the drivers and restarting the computer a bunch of times but eventually got it working with “Stereo Mix.”
Started Recording various tones. I think square tones will be more useful then sine tones. They seem to have a more gritty tone to them which may help vibration.
Software used: NCH Tone Generator(producing tones) and Audacity(Recording)

Phil 4.20.11

7:30 – 3:00 VISIBILITY

Here’s Christie’s list from yesterday
- Had a remote object fault where a send failed – Channel.Connect.Failed error – this happens when trying to “Create a Funding Request”. So that error has re-occurred.
- When changes are made in the “Financial Status” data (i.e. Enter and save comments in a line). The updated entries do not save. For instance, I save the comments, return to the line and the comments I saved are no longer there.
- When modifying a “Funding Request” and selecting a funding request to modify, we should be able to select a funding request based on the FY, Description, Appropriation and Funding Request Type. (i.e. MIPR, FAD, EA) – we don’t need to know the creator or mailing address
- When entering information in Tab 3 (Finance Data), we should not be forced to add contract information as we often times do not receive this information until later. We should have the ability to enter what we can.
- On Tab 2 (Funding Request Details) we should not be forced to enter the Period of Performance or the Obligation Deadline date. We should have the flexibility to fill this information in at a later date as well. In other words, all dates should have the ability to be left blank – we should not be forced to enter something just for the sake of entering something. It is much easier to go back and update when you see a blank space, than when you just put in any date
- The “Search” feature under Tab 3 (Finance Data) for the purpose of selecting a contract is not working and all of the contracts are not available to select. The contract options run to the end of the screen and you cannot scroll down to view the other contracts.
- Many of the SOWs are very lengthy. Not sure what, if anything can be done about that.
- When creating a Funding Request, you must select the project. However, once you are actually in the Funding request, it does not state anywhere, which project you have selected. Suggest displaying the name of the project and the FY
- Has the classification tool been discussed? Much of the exec summary is marked (S) and normally any funding information in marked (TS).

Phil 4.19.11

7:30 – 4:30VISIBILITY

More repeated measures math confusion for today!
Updated variance object to store strings without choking
Showed Jared how to use MavenAssist
Got repeated measures working, after futzing with a lot of parsing issues
Try to upload some data to the server today? Nope, but did get in and talk to Bill. Brian also worked with Denise a bit to get me my admin account. In addition, Christie sent a list of bugs for PPM that I need to enter.

Phil 4.18.11

7:30 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

Going to try the Kestrel today – see if the knee is up to it.
Testing new PPM
Add Brian’s comments to whitepaper
Demo of Visibility to Mike F.
Figuring out Repeated Measures math.

Mike 4.18.2011

Have a desktop loading architecture working for the most part. I can add a new instance of an application to the existing desktop by requesting one through the DesktopManager. I then track changes (position, size, etc.) of that window and save the changes as they happen. I can then output that information in an xml format that is I can later read back in to desktop objects… mostly. I’m currently stuck on a kink of parsing embedded objects. They both get created but the reference from the parent to the child is set to null so instead of having embedded objects I have something more like a flat array. Once that is sorted out I should be able to load back in old desktops by copying / pasting XML. The next logical step would be saving that information to a database.

Phil 4.15.11