2011-12-14

MVP final finals before travel

1213 FINALS

X- add sorts to admin: material connections
X- add section heads to fly: connections
X- COMPANY DOSS
X--- show ratings on evidence / use micro-dosses
X--- add related themes to company doss

2011-12-13

Phase 3 commences

1213 v4 start

X- consistent style sheets for sort headers
X- IMAGE UPLOAD
X- SORTS
X- EVIDENCE + CONNECTIONS TO PEOPLE DOSSIERS
X- EVIDENCE LINKS TO DOSSIERS
X- MORE ROBUST SECURITY
X- security levels: single opp only, multi-opp, admin
X- lock each user to a default opportunity
X- accurately switch session variables upon opportunity switch
X- consistent use of mini-dossiers on themes and evidence detail
X- FREEFORM INFO TO PEOPLE DOSSIERS
X- add hidden / rollover text to admin master menu
X- add related evidence to people dossiers
X- visually and textually identify role within the person dossier
X- add related evidence to company dossiers
X- add wikipedia to company dossier
X- add freeform field listing within the person dossier
X- add related evidence to company dossier
X- add company descrip: X- form, X- edit, X- dossier
X- simplify all creation forms, auto-creation of shortnames

2011-12-08

MVP: the final push

PUNCHLIST 1207 : MVP DELIVERY

X- LAUNCH PAGE
X- IMAGE UPLOAD
X-- people : edit
X-- companies : edit
X- SORTS on all brose and admin list views
X- MATERIAL CONNECTIONS DOSSIER
X- MATERIAL CONNECTIONS thumbnails on people dossiers
X- globalize variables, i.e. directory
X- COMPANY-dossier:
X--- add role class:name
X--- move company name to right above people
X- PEOPLE-dossier:
X--- add NOBR in company link
X--- add role class:name
X--- generalize material connections : move from action table to MC table
X- EVIDENCE-dossier
X--- use include for people mini-doss link
X--- use include for company mini-doss link
X--- make leading tighter on company name
X- THEME- dossier
X--- make the company link right logo
X--- move summary to top and make bold
X--- use include for company mini-doss link
X- EVIDENCE-LIST
X--- show thumbnails of person
X- ALL LISTS
X--- when not rolesort, make a top row header and a footer
X- SORTING
X--- full sorting on evidence
X--- relevance sorting on all list views
X----- people X-db X-form X-code
X----- company X-db X-form X-code
X----- evidence X-db X-form X-code
X--- alpha sorting on company / people
MISC
X- remove X's from browse company view
X- add theme link to opportunities list
X- add theme list view in browse
X- add theme dossier view in browse
THEMES
X- add theme dossier view
MATERIAL CONNECTIONS
X- GET THIS FUNCTION ONLINE
X- create generalized connection table in DB
X- create the relevant links and views with people dossiers
X- create the relevant links and views with company dossiers
X- create a force directed graph visualization
RELEVANCE
X- add relevance score to all edit views:
X-- people X-db X-form X-code X-sort X-browse X-dossier
X-- company X-db X-form X-code X-sort X-browse X-dossier
X-- evidence X-db X-form X-code X-sort X-browse X-dossier
X-- connection X-db X-form X-code X-sort X-browse X-dossier
/-- theme X-db X-form X-code -sort X-browse X-dossier

2011-11-28

back from vacaysh

and ON it:

X- add transparent platform for minimenu UI
X- externalize people tab menu to an include file
X- add evidence and home icon to browse minimenu
X- make BROWSE: analytics and main menu share white BG
X- add crunchbase ON/OFF to company edit and update
X- have company ROLE be remembered upon edit
X- have evidence TYPE be remembered upon edit
X- have person ROLE be remembered upon edit
X- create person role TABLE
X- change plist in browser view from ROLE coloring to PTYPE CLASS coloring
X- added LinkedIn research link to 'people education edit' page

X- fix broken logos for companies
X- update template company logo to more basic image
X- add role name to browse: people list
X- render colored and blueprint versions of evidence icon
X- add evidence icon to main menu
X- create school dossier links with alum

 

2011-11-11

beautiful

1110 -- LATE NIGHT
X- ADD little messenger 'numbers in red bubbles' to show how many people, companies in each opp
X- tweetstats DB for : X- jamesurquhart, X- scottsanchez, X- monkchips,
X- tweetstats DB for : X- georgereese, X- krishnan, X- randybias, X- ruv

2011-11-10

1110 -- V2 patches

1110 -- V2 patches
X- ADD BETA designation
X- get a real analytics account online (sep from BRL)
X- externalize analytics call to an include file
X- BARS BARS BARS
X- create dynamic bargraphs of cross-tweet chatter with links to snapbird pull renders

equity trigger events

X- send email of upgrades:
X---- new DB schema
X---- removal of frames
X---- addition of customers, products & opportunities

X- 1. transfer DNS : http://www.sixintel.com
X- 7. make sixintel.com the master domain
X- 3. intitiate SI twitter account : @6intel
X- 6. send v2 DB architecture to Thomas
X- 8. set up google analytics : UA-6204229-7

2011-11-09

V2 BETA iz LIVE, BITCHES!

1109 -- V2 FINALS
X- tie login validation into customerID lookup for leap to opportunity selection
X- people dossiers - REMOVE THE FRAMESETS!!!
X- >>> move the nav icons to far right!!!!!!!
X- add Ben, Frank, Steph to users database
X- lateral nav on people dossiers also filters by opportunity
X- make sure the opp_ID is passed along to every page - or sourced from tName
X- GET THE logo X FIXED
X- fix the X on ALL the logo images
X- add fail / succeed to login logs - and color red on the login logs

1109 - V201 patch
X - make lateral nav on company dossiers filters by opportunity
X- re-add company name to company dossier
X- make the company dossier top logo and text based like people dossier
X- fix persistency issues with opportunity ID throughout views

2011-11-07

phase 2 begins

1107 - eXperimental (not yet released)
X- companies now sortable up & down by name, revenue, and headcount
X- people: remove twitter & klout links where no twitter account exists
X- make all social icons proper icon classes
X- add opportunities panel, contextual to customerID
X- add opportunity name in upper right of all views
X- maintain awareness of customer and opportunity throughout experience
X- filter people, companies, analytics based on opportunity
X- fill out Avengers opportunity
X- fix testOPP opportunity

2011-11-05

1105 after hours

1105 AFTER HOURS

X- APP: added products to company dossier
X- DB CONTENT: added a number of LinkedIn IDs to company DB
X- APP: fixed CrunchBase API leadership pull so that it only showed active executives
X- add Marc Benioff to PeopleDB
X- alter X/company and X/people dossiers for new DB schema
X- enhanced products on X/Company Dossier, with descrip and AWESOME formatting :)
X- APP + DB: make it so that you can have a PeopleDB record without a twitter account
X- add sorts to company list
X- update correct linkedin IDs and employee counts for VMware, Cisco, Rackspace

1105 - show me that database yo

1105 - killaDB
X- re-architecture of database for scalability
X- create new tables: customers, users, opportunities, products
X- rename all tables
X- streamlining of database: consistency of field names across all tables
X- DB addition of CUSTOMER_ID, OPPORTUNITY_ID and USERNAME to all table records
X- create opportunities table:
X--- opportunity_ID, customer_ID
X--- then place people and companies into opportunity classes (robotics, cloud, sixintel)
X- DB content adds: addition of products
X- uploading of DB 1105 to server as new DB instance 420;
X- creation of X new app instance;
X- porting of company list to new DB;
X- porting of company dossier to new DB
X- removal of frames on company dossier :)
X- add Aileen Black, Siki Giunta, & Feza Pamir to DB
X- create main mini menu for app
X- make mini icons for people, company, analysis and place as floating menu at top within list views

2011-11-04

finishing touches - website

1104 - CLEANUP
X- fix the sixintel.com homepage and make it look good
X- add flying reticle

FINAL PUSH... birth this baby!

1103
X- create secure password login and DB users table
X- make the SixIntel homepage
X- WEBAPP: add Events and Themes icons to App main menu
X- ultra-optimize stubborn lightbulb / idea / events icon

2011-11-02

midnight special


1101 LATE LATE LATE NIGHT
X- posted power map
X- tweaked php and nailed all company links in imagemap
X- 4:44am - BEDTIME

and then there were...

1101 LATE LATE NIGHT
X- add aneel ACTION MaterialConnectionss to DB
X- added imagemap data for : aneel, vanessaalvarez1, beaker
X- tweet analysis graphs for all CloudMVPs with imagemaps and mini-icon
 X- completed imagemaps for ALL v1 CloudMVPs who had tweetstat renders
X- added @georgereese to PeopleDB

the neverending story


1101 LATE NIGHT
X- make pretty color, grey, and gold rollovers for major menu icons
X- optimized the tweetgraphs for decimal imagemaps
X- colorized tweetstats for fun and beauty
X- created initial decimal imagemap template for tweetstats
X- added imagemap links to Power.Map
X- re-rendered Power.Map infoGraphic

2011-11-01

finishing touches

gave the first iPad demo today, to a senior person in the defense industry. an eye opener. we are competing with palantir. they have $300mm. we have juice. 'nuf said.

SI-WEBAPP 1101
X- create developer blog: sixdev.blogspot.com
X- FIX THE COMPANY ID BUG WITH NEBULA!!!! and echo to M w00t w00t!
X- remove company links on player dossiers if there is no CBcompany for them and echo to M
X- add cool mini-icons for company links and twitter links
X- iterate for multiple material connections on the player dossier YES!
X- add oracle to companyDB
X- fix database records for low companyIDs
X- add Larry Ellison + youtube to PeopleDB
X- flesh out scottsanchez profile
X- add the tweetstat bar graphs IMMEDIATELY

2011-10-31

happy halloween - serious costumed coding

THE BIGGIES:
* got a local instance of MySQL running on laptop, with NaviCat tools
* created COMPANY table and populated it
* created company view
* integrated CrunchBase JSON API calls
* transformed this thing into an ap
* created the MATERIAL CONNECTIONS table
* ported entire structure to iPad compatible views, including app icon
* registered 6intel.com

the details: SI-WEBAPP 1031
X- add role color key on masterlist
X- fix role color keys on player dossier menu backgrounds
X- player dossier: design: translate LI 501 to 500+
X- player dossier: design: absolute position the footer at the bottom of the page
X- player dossier: design: add the sixintel background graphic to the dossier
X- design: PeopleDB: add sort and grouping for list
X- GET LOCAL DB ADMIN UP AND RUNNING!!!!!
X- create companies DB table
X- source and process all company logos
X- code to crunchbase JSON API
X- design company index list
X- design company dossier
X- DYNAMICALLY POPULATE COMPANY DOSSIERS
X- DB: create a relations table: ACTIONS
X- create the material connections DB table & populate it
X- create protocode on individual dossiers to show material connections
X- create a front end homepage for the app @/dev
X- create floating SI logo stamp at bottom left - all app pages
X- create floating call to action lower rifght - on all app pages
X- player dossier: remove the noisy text code BG
X- player dossier: make the RETICLE a floating CSS graphic on TOP
X- add gentle fade on bottom of list screens
X- add the generic company logo
X- fix kerning on copyright footer
X- add a favicon
X- make the names link in the PeopleDB
X- add employees to company pages
X- protoptype iPad app /m
X- create new M subdirectory and replicate / optimize all files and html
X- iPad: modify and simplify, remove frames, javascript
X- iPad: creation and optimization of new stylesheet_m.css
X- iPad: optimize for screen resolution
X- iPad: create start-up screen
X- iPad: create app icon
X- instantiate 6intel.com server
X- player dossier: add dynamic link to company dossier
X- fix randybias photo




v51 - roswell

MORE WORK WAS COMPLETED TODAY THAN CAN POSSIBLY BE DOCUMENTED. I WAS ON A CAFFEINE DRIVEN TEAR, IMPROVISING SANS NOTES. IT ROCKED!!!

this is the tattered silliness of the only notes taken that day:


V051 - APP - 1030
X- peopleDB adds:
X-- randy bias (top klout)
X-- aneel
X-- tim o reilly
X-- james urquhart
X-- george reese
X-- scott sanchez
X- companyDB adds to cloud group:
X--- rackspace
X--- IBM

2011-10-30

getting stronger every day

well, with the instantiation of the database, its all fast running from here.
seriously, this was some spreadsheets and some illustrator drawings...
now, and more every day, its an application

it certainly helped that I created a new web server instance on Linux with PHP.

V050 -- APP - 1029
X- BUILD THE FRAME STRUCTURE
X- BUILD TEH DYNAMIC PHP FOR BASEBALL CARDS
X- fix george hulme photo
X- fix vnessa photo
X- add commas or abbreviate 23000 to 23k
X- change header color based on type (journo, exec, mvp)
X- only show tabs that data exists for (nullcheck)
X- find a way to dynamically do prev / next
X---- loop prev/next if at end of DB
X- CREATE THE MASTER BB CARD CSS TEMPLATE
X- RE-DO ALL BB CARDS AS DYNAMIC DB PULLS


Moment of Transformation

Thomas asked me to add 20 more people to the dossiers, and I couldn't fathom hand-tooling all that HTML... so I did the natural thing: brought a server online, registered a domain, loaded up pHp and mySQL, and built a database from scratch. Naturally :)

2011-10-28

1028 - ramping up HARD

CloudMVPs - 1028
X- expand the imagemap click zones for PAIRz : MATERIAL CONNECTIONS
X- INTERNAL : rename ALL files / DBs based on twittername
X- SHOW EXTERNAL LINKS / CONNECTS WITHIN THE SOCIAL GRAPH IN PAIRS
X- ON SOLO CARDS, SHOW ALL AVAILABLE MC DRILL DOWNS
X- brand a footer (stamp and call to action / copyright notice)

2011-10-27

we be Ill(ustrator)in

v033 -- 1027

X- split 3 CSC graphics into 3 separate Illustrator files
X- re-brand large infoGraphic from Social Insights to SixIntel

102X - Cloud Mafia Rising

v12 -- 1027
X- color code all baseball cards
X- upgrade all cards to v2 format

v11c -- 2011-10-26
X- re-render date axis text on cloud buzz graph
X- move lateral nav controls to right side, absolute positioning
X- more tweaks of HTML positioning and layout on baseball cards
X- added v2 cards for lmacvittie and valvarez
X- re-org folders and files

v011b -- 2011-10-25
X- add rarthur and jwatters baseball cards
X- add rarthur YouTube
X- add jmckenty TripIt

v011a -- 2011-10-25
X- baseball cards: create text tabs for social services
X- fill in cards for ckemp, gcurtis, jmckenty
X- add lateral nav between cards

v011 -- 2011-10-2X
X- crop linked in baseball cards to proper size
X- create dossier template for individuals
X- link the master infographic to the dossier pages
X- create HTML template
X- enable cross clicking

2011-10-04

v26 : Interactivation

v026 - 1004 - infographic bug fixes
X- FOOT: get SI image map logo link working at lower left
X- BUZZ: get google red to be on top of black bar
X- BUZZ: fix bottom timeline, make accurate
X- AWARENESS - make search bars actually perform searches
X- COMP - fix colors on percentages to harmonize with bubbles
X- TOP: link to Fortune 500 listing
X- WINS: add links for all bubbles
X- PUBLISH to web

2011-10-03

v23: Fun with Math

v023 -- 1003
X- re-organize layers for template
X- added Cognizant to competitots
X- scaled competitors down by 66% for less overlap
X- made competitors positioning mathmatically accurate
X- add buzz graph
X- add template footer with hyperlinks
X- add grid and axis labels to BUZZ chart
X- re-do competition / linked graph
X- redo entire layout
X- establish header formatting and sublayers
X- added product hyperlinks
X- render and post to web: http://www.blackrocketlabs.com/dev/si/ig/CSC_big.html
X- make webpage with thumbnails: PeopleMap and Competitive Analysis

2011-10-01

v21 : I'm Feelin Lucky

VERSION HISTORY: CSC INFOGRAPHIC for SOCIAL INSIGHTS

v021 -- 1001
X- publish to web: http://www.blackrocketlabs.com/dev/si/ig/
X- add news: Owen being fired

v020 -- 1001
X- make HTML with imagemap -- to twitter accounts, linked in profiles, and press releases
X- owen: change title from Svcs to Services
X- owen: change from 25 to 20 year vet
X- create vCard for Thomas Moewe as lower right click :)
X- center noble exit on today
X- add cloud bg graphic for playfulness

2011-09-29

v18 : the Early Days

v018 - 0929
X- add OCT 2011 notation to red line
X- extend right white mask upwards :)
X- move red line to below topmask
X- make circles for Brown, Boroff, Noble > red
X- make Knode & Owen small blue pips for news events
X- add tagline
X- add call to action & phone number

v017 -- 0928:
X- added 2nd artboard, for...
X- created new landscape 16:9 people graphic
X- rendered and released to customer 2011-09-28 4:59:17 PM





2011-08-28

And so it begins...

This is the development blog for SixIntel, a Black Rocket Labs project by Greg Roberts