Phil 7.9.2010

7:30 – 11:30 VISIBILITY

  • Responded to Yonald’s email. Tentative meeting is Tuesday at 2:00
  • Sent of an OZONE ping to see about getting VISIBILITY OZONE-blessed
  • Printed out the OZONE overview to bring here
  • Reading OZONE doc
  • Burned new PPM to disk

11:30 – 3:30 – FP

  • Brought in the KF prototype
  • Wiring up motors (Documentation is here: http://www.phidgets.com/documentation/Phidgets/1063.pdf).
    • Stepper motor wire pairs are (red/blue) and (green/black). Wired up as A/red, B/blue, C/green, D/black
    • Wrist Motor number = 92693
    • Top finger is servo 0
    • Bottom finger is servo 1
    • Azimuth is 92795 – might want to reverse wiring
    • Need to move pivot point in on wrist linkage

Phil 7.8.2010

7:30 – 1:30 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed the new network data source and Greek icons.
  • Beat on the SSL problem for a while
  • Sent Yonald C a note about networking, he wants to set up a meeting/demo for next week
  • Modified the network generator so that it outputs status and lat/long
  • Walked through Dong’s changes. Test and burn a new disk
  • Gave Mike some Tasks
    • Adda “New Widget” Button to the Wap and the Status panel. It should create a query of the form “SELECT foo, LAT, LONG WHERE (foo = ‘bar’ AND lat = 13.72 AND lon = 48.28) OR (foo = ‘baz AND lat = 12.38 AND lon = 43.7)”. The equalities in the parentheses’ define a selection on the map. If you want to get fancy, dragging a rectangle to select would be pretty cool too. This makes all the graphical components behave in the same way.
    • Bug Fixes for AdvancedQueryWidget
      • The status display gets confused with blank rows
      • Sometimes names don’t show up in the status pane after they have been selected. Let’s say I have two columns – name and status. If I select name, the names don’t show. If I then select status, the status’ show. Selecting name again now shows names
      • With the new data set, the attraction forces are two high, and the nodes bounce around until the settings are adjusted. Can you look into adding a threshold clamp that keeps that from happening?
      • Are the force settings saved when the panel is saved? They need to be.

1:30 – 3:30 FP

  • Making new, stronger linkages – done

Dong Shin 07.08.2010

  • Contract Management
    • additional fields added to match Trish’s spreadsheet (Amount, location,etc)
    • edit now can be done by double clicking an item
    • edit and refresh buttons added
  • zipped up PPM for demo
  • fixed maximize problem on Financial Data entry
  • Activate user has been added to UserManagement

Dong Shin 07.06.2010

  • changed all the date formats to MM/DD/YYYY on Contracts Management
  • added delete cascade constraints on _budget_centers_contracts on both budget center id and contract id
  • reset ContractForm after save
  • adding Contract Edit

Phil 7.7.2010

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Got a note from Jim M this morning, saying that Trish hhad to cancel the meeting and would reschedule. Also, he wants to know how much more we can do for how long with our current funding
  • Got some of the SSL issues fixed on site. Still can’t get subversion to behave. The tech support folks are working on it. We’re supposed to resync tomorrow.
  • Putting together a an xml generator to produce a network file in SOLR format – done

Dong Shin 07.06.2010

  • Continue working on Contracts management
    • created ContractFormWindow for adding contract data
    • contracts now can be saved and removed
    • created _budget_centers_contracts table for Budget Centers and Contracts relationship management
    • pretty much done, need to fine tune the displaying data

Phil 7.6.2010

7:30 – 1:30 VISIBILITY

  • SSL for Firefox is misbehaving. Waiting for that to be fixed. All the deployed apps are working fine though
  • Catching up with Dong. Looks like I’ll demo the version installed last week
  • Working on the “Sailor” display
  • Burning a new Vis disk
  • Power failed at Columbia, went to the client. Spent a few hours doing the newest Visibility deploy. Since my certs were misbehaving, the svn transfer trick didn’t work any more. Joe set me up with a remote disk which works very nicely.

1:30 – 3:30 FP

  • Reinforced the azimuth component of the main support so the strain gauges should work better
  • Added the base
  • Discovered that the arms that come off the large motors are not strong enough to grip the shaft. Part of this is that there is no standard drill bit that corresponds to 8mm, so the holes for the shaft were too large. Wound up having to order a metric drill set from McMaster. You would think that Harbor Freight would have that, but nope.

Dong Shin 07.02.2010

  • Continue working on Contracts
    • got reponses back from Trish
    • changed Funding to Year and Budget Center specific – moved it to FinancialDataSet
  • fixed maximize problem on ProjectViewer
  • null trap added to FinancialDataDataGrid

Dong Shin 07.01.2010

  • tried to duplicate the exception when editing Financial Data
    • couldn’t get it to happen on my laptop
    • happens on Phil’s consistently, same version of Flash plugin
    • may need to trap NULL exception
  • Working on Contracts
    • modified contract table to map correct names
    • added Manage button to ContractsCanvas to dispatch event to ProjectViewerPanel to start ContractMgmtWindow
    • create ContractMgmtWindow

Phil 7.1.2010

7:30 –  12:00 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed the new PPM, but the server was having SSL problems. Joe got that fixed, but in a semi-related side issue, the meeting was postponed
  • Rolled Mike’s changes into the new deployment package.
  • Tried restarting my computer to see if that’s what causes my out of memory exception. No joy. Going to try deleting the projects and reloading them. Wow! That worked. WTF?
    • Setting the project up as a server app again – let’s see what that does…
    • Changed the .flexProperties to make this a server project: <flexProperties flexServerType=”64″ serverContextRoot=”” serverRoot=”C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 6.0/webapps/VisDashViewer” serverRootURL=”https://127.0.0.1/VisDashViewer&#8221; toolCompile=”true” useServerFlexSDK=”false” version=”1″/> – still working…
    • Changed the output folder: C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationTomcat 6.0webappsVisibility3 – still working
    • Enabled HTML wrapper – still works.
    • Chalk it up to a FlexBuilder unreproducible result.
  • Virtually attending Aaron’s presentation

12:00 – 3:30 FP

  • Mounting fingers
  • Building armrest

More Wheatstone Bridge Notes

  • Wheatstone bridges tested and working.  The 5th one had a loose connection on the positive signal line but is working now.
  • Made a slight error  in orientation.  The Amplifier is actually in the reverse order of the bridges.  The bridges go E+,S-, S+, E- and the  amplifier is E-, S+, S-, E+.  Tis means you have to cross the connections.
  • All terminals are wired and ready to be attached to strain gauges and amplifiers.
  • Best to position it so Amps are on the left side of the bridge, where ever we end up placing it on the unit.  This allows you to have testers in your left hand, while making calibration adjustments with your right.  Doing this in reverse is annoying to say the least.

Mike 6.30.2010

  • Fixed a bug with multiple selection and the map widget
  • Any selections made in the map widget are now reflected in the data tab of the AdvancedQueryWidget
  • Tried to help Phil with some build problems but of course when you expect something to fail it works just fine…
  • Added a “New Widget’ button to the network widget.  Clicking it while in either the map mode or the connection list will spawn a new AQW with both the selected nodes and any connections that refer to them.

Dong Shin 06.30.2010

  • prepping PPM for demo
  • found some bugs
    • fixed SQL error on saving Funding Request after initial save
    • fixed SQL error on saving Project after initial save – reload of Funding data required….
  • cannot use uid as a property/field name as it’s reserved… causes datagrid to go nuts!
  • added changedFlag to Funding Request, used for Close Confirmation
  • removed Tab focus on Validators, added Alert

Phil 6.30.2010

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Deployed new VSS
  • talked to JW about documentation and querylog
  • Need to request 4 Flexbuilder 4 licenses – done
  • Need to write up description of why we need PRIVAC – done
  • Walk through PPM with Dong and burn a new disk – done. Still some possible problems with null pointers in the “Enter Financial Data” section, and the contract info isn’t in yet.
  • My code works fine on Mike’s machine. If rebooting the laptop doesn’t work, it’s probably time to install a new version of Eclipse.

Wheatstone Bridges complete

  • Completed 5 wheatstone bridges.
  • The connection go from left to right with the side of four on the bottom: SG 1 connection A, SG 1 connection B, SG 2 connection A, SG2 connection B, E+, S+, S-, E-.
  • Ran out of space on the last one so I had to put it on the other side the connections are still in the exact same order as the bottom, its not mirrored.  It is a little messy compared to others but hopefully it works.
  • Still need to wire the terminals but the hard parts done.