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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 10/1/2016 to 10/31/2016 - (110)
Photos	Time Id	Color	Title/Caption	Start Date	Notes
	Shop 1636		Adilas time	10/3/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick and Steve. We pushed up 60+ new API socket pieces and started going through and checking live connections. Nick was updating servers with new documentation while I was doing some light debugging. Steve was working on a new 3rd party integration page with stored settings. After that, Nick started doing some prep work on a new .csv file upload project and I started building out a quote for the project. See elements of time # 1907 for the project details, scope, documentation, and quote. We added a couple new services to help with verbage about change requests and half down on payment requirements.

	Shop 1912		View Only Permissions	10/3/2016	We are getting more and more requests for a series of view only permissions for users on a site-wide level. Do a basic time search for "view only" to see some other entries that have some ideas about sub settings, sub permissions, and location based permissions, etc.

	Shop 1815		Calvin Chipman	10/3/2016

	Shop 1880		Server Setup	10/3/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan. We did some tax updates on the data 6 server. It is all but ready (very close) to being released. We tried to contact Steve to get any final instructions. We also lightly covered a new small mini black box project for Tubes N' Hoses out of Waco, TX. They want to see the customer notes inside the shopping cart in a top mini black box.

	Shop 1863		General	10/3/2016	Printing off older elements of time. Back in the 2010 to 2012 era. Fun trip down memory lane. Creating a printed (hard copy) back-up for all of the brainstorming and concepting we have worked on. I think it is fun. I can't wait to get back in there and circle around and look at the notes and ideas we have recorded. We've been going so fast that it is hard to harvest all of the good ideas and concepts. Good stuff.

	Shop 1909		Tubes & Hoses Top Mini	10/3/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan. We went over the top mini black box code for showing the customer notes in a shopping cart. Super easy project and Bryan did a great job. He will get with Alan and get things all signed off and what not. I told him that he could bill that project directly. It was quoted out at $100 for a simple mini black box.

	Shop 1637		Adilas time	10/4/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick, Alan, Steve, and Russell. The topic for the day was based on the vision of black boxing the whole system. We talked techy stuff, visual stuff, concerns, pros, cons, roles (who), options, and depth of the project. What level do we want to attack and what is the main goal? We did some concept sessions. Russell drew some things. I drew some things. Steve was chiming in. Nick was taking notes (see element of time # 1859 - media/content). Great overall discussion. Towards the end, Dave Forbis came over to my house. He participated in the last part of the session and contributed to the ideas and reports on who is doing what. After that, he and I spent from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm talking about potential, consulting, and helping each other out. We are going to try to setup some meetings with clients and Dave is going to try to get things going on some different levels. We are going to try to meet with Gene Spaulding (an old friend of mine) and get some ideas on assisted living centers and other verticals and industries. Gene was a banker before his current role that he is playing. He has tons of knowledge. Great meeting and lots of spreading the vision of where we are as compared with where we are going. We are virtually posting little flags to indicate the pathway we want to travel. Hopefully, as we place the flags around, we are hoping that others can start drawing lines, connections, and help us fill in the gaps. Good stuff.

	Shop 1816		Calvin Chipman	10/4/2016

	Shop 1786		State API	10/4/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Steve. We were working on adding in a local page filter for data that was returned from the different state API socket calls. Basically, we had to filter and limit the amount of data that was shown vs. the amount that was passed back by the API socket call. To make it more of a challenge, we have different page modes and different manual sort modes that had to play into the filtering process as well. Good session. While we were coding and talking, we were talking about a number of business decisions and internal direction for where we are going. Our plan is to keep going and try to balance things out between client types, industries, maintenance, new development, standardization, customization, debt, revenue/sales, etc. Lots of intentional balancing. Playing the game.

	Shop 1911		Working with Bryan on the Linx (links) payment solution	10/4/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan going over the process and in/outs for the Linx (pronounced links) card payment process. We looked the Adilas 3rd party solution page and how that ties into the API socket calls and potential custom flow for the shopping cart. Good meeting.

	Shop 1049		Adilas time	10/5/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick and Steve. We basically just used it as a work session and each of us did our own projects. I was doing emails and cleaning up post-it notes. Nick was working on a custom report some black box stuff. Steve was working on his state API socket connection pages and filtering data that got returned. If the guys needed help, I would jump over and help them and then we would be back on our own projects. Very productive.

	Shop 1817		Calvin Chipman	10/5/2016	Helping both Calvin and Bryan with different projects. With Calvin's, I made some light changes to the API socket stuff for searching quotes. With Bryan's, I just helped and let him talk through the issue.

	Shop 1908		Working with Bryan on a custom cart	10/5/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan. We were working on the custom code for CCG. They are a timeshare and resort reseller of sorts. They have a custom one-pager that gathers information for resorts, fees, transfers, cancelations, and other info. The page is then submitted and it draws up forms and PDF documents behind the scene. It also makes an invoice using the data provided. We were in deep looking at logic and trying to make sure that all of the invoice line item mappings are done correctly. Lots of raw SQL queries to look up and compare values. We also used the drawing tools on GoToMeeting to help with the flow process and get our mappings correct. The project feels very simple because it is a one pager, but behind the scenes this little project packs a punch. Interesting. Part way through, I did have to help Calvin Chipman with an API tech support issue. That took a little bit of back and forth code tweaking.

	Shop 1864		Alan Time	10/5/2016

	Shop 1914		Working with Bryan	10/6/2016	Full rework with Bryan on the one pager for the resorts and timeshare stuff for CCG. Our original goal was a quick hour or two. It ended up going for over five hours on the rework. Once it was done, it seemed quite good and tight but ended up taking the entire morning work session.

	Shop 1638		Adilas time	10/6/2016	We ended up working on Bryan's re-work project. Not much was done here.

	Shop 2676		Virtual Post-It Note	10/6/2016	- Conversions are starting to get bigger and bigger as well. How does that play in with the part weight field. - Part weight is playing in more and more - What do we want to do with that? Currently it is being used for gram control and/or an alternate multiplier. - We would love to be able to name that field and make it more standard. Currently they are using the catalog_page field (aka the bin number). We may need a couple of extra fields here. This field is a varchar (text field) and allows for both alpha and numeric values. In some of our code, we are having to check for numeric values and then doing multiplication. If it is not a numeric, we are treating it like a value of 1 which doesn't change anything. - We may need another unit of measure field to help with the part weight or some other key factor. - Go back to the parent/child relationships - Is this data needed on the parent or on the individual child. Expand on this. Also, this information may be part of the conversion process. Some of the data may need to be stored higher and then cascading downward. It also may need to be recorded on a per child or per mini conversion level. - The parent items may need a couple more fields that could be dynamic. We need both text and numeric data fields. Maybe thing shipping, ecommerce, weight stuff, alternate units of measure. For example: Say a single candy bar (1 each) may also need a spot to store the number of carbs or sugar content (2.7 milligrams or 5.67 fluid ounces or whatever). - What about other possible thresholds? Think broad... this may not go here, but we have sub inventory, sub attributes, flex grid, corp-wide settings, etc. What about real in-line extensions of the database. That might be really cool. If they want more or less fields, it would be really cool to allow that kind of functionality on the parent item level.

	Shop 1818		Calvin Chipman	10/6/2016

	Shop 1787		State API	10/6/2016	Working with Steve over a GoToMeeting session. We were working on adding items to an Adilas PO based off of the usage of the RFID tags from the state API. Basically, a giant project to sync up data between different servers (ours and the state's servers). We made quite a bit of progress on the pages.

	Shop 1862		Black Box Project	10/6/2016	Nick got on the GoToMeeting and then allowed Steve and I to keep working on the state API socket connections. Nick was just working along as Steve and I were working on other stuff.

	Shop 1012		Brandon out of the office all day	10/7/2016	Went on an extra long hike with my dad this morning. We were doing trail maintenance and flagging a new trail. That was kinda fun. Later in the day I spent some helping Russell with some adilas stuff and printing a copy of the existing elements of time for adilas as a back-up copy.

	Shop 1917		Russell Time	10/7/2016	On a Zoom session with Russell. We were working on the elements of time and creating a data feed for companies to use. This would allow any company, on any server, to virtually get a data fee pushed to their server or box via the adilas API sockets. This would be a webservice type approach for the feeds.

	Shop 1915		Printing a hard copy of elements of time	10/7/2016	Spent time on and off today printing hard copies of adilas elements of time. We've burned through reams and reams of paper. Kinda crazy. You should see the stack of paper... It is pretty big. :)

	Shop 1639		Adilas time	10/10/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick and Steve. Nick and I were working on the starting of the new black box every page in the system project. This will end up being a pretty big project. We started into it and then hit a few speed bumps due to the existing folder structure and number of different options. We spent some time translating paths, setting up some scenarios, and drawing using the GoToMeeting tools like a virtual whiteboarding session. Lots of concepts.

	Shop 3723		Virtual Post-It Note	10/10/2016	-We need to offer an alternate email to help with reply's and responses. I'm Getting tons of replies from other companies and I have to pass them along or delete them. We need to fix this.

	Shop 1819		Calvin Chipman	10/10/2016

	Shop 1905		Black Box Project	10/10/2016	on a GoToMeeting session with Nick. More work on the black box project. Started to cascade the code in the top_secret folder and in the top_secret/secure folder. Light testing and actually breaking apart some pages. Started with the main login page, the error message page, and some other general files. We eventually need to cascade this logic to all parts, pages, and sections within the site. Here we go...

	Shop 1865		Alan Time	10/10/2016

	Shop 1919		Working on the data 6 server	10/11/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan. We were working on the data 6 server and trying to do the last minute prep stuff to get it ready to release. Lots of checking and then FTPing files and some light testing and updating settings. Good session. It is just about ready.

	Shop 1640		Adilas time	10/11/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick, Alan, and Steve. We showed Alan some of our progress with the black box project and he caught on super quickly. We also got an update from Steve on some changes and projects that he is working on. He is cranking on some of his own projects and such. Good stuff. Halfway through the session, we broke into smaller individual work sessions. I started fixing things in elements of time (recording notes and general clean-up). Alan was doing some code sign-off, and Nick was pushing on the black box stuff. Steve was doing phone calls and API stuff.

	Shop 1788		State API	10/11/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Steve. We added 5 new web/API assignment fields to the web/api assignments table. This is where we store 3rd Party Solutions and their stored settings (custom fields for API socket connections). We then cascaded the changes around and then pushed and merged some files. The other thing we did was talk some strategy on how to push API transactions on a per invoice basis from the submit cart page. Good meeting. As a side note, we also talked about some of the vision and future of some of our plans and goals. Our goal is to stay small (ish) and keep a core team going and moving forward.

	Shop 1820		Calvin Chipman	10/11/2016

	Shop 1886		Russell Moore	10/11/2016	On a Zoom session with Russell. He was working on some new settings for his AFB (Adilas For Business) themes and packages. He shared some vision on where he and Chris would like to take things and some of their plans for rolling things out. We did some code management and did some merging with the master branch. We then pushed code and did some testing. Russell is doing great and I'm excited to see how things turn out. Good stuff.

	Shop 1918		General	10/11/2016	Paying bills, doing emails, and recording notes. It felt like a long day today.

	Shop 1050		Adilas time	10/12/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick and Steve. We helped Steve with some small query changes and then got him to download Calvin's super FTP tool (bulk FTP to multiple servers). We got that setup and going for him. Nick and I then worked on more of the black box project. We went back through some of the older notes and made sure we were hitting all of the pieces. We even played lightly with some theme stuff and making sure that everything cascades as we want it to. We merged, tested, and pushed the first 88 files. This was all of the stuff in the main top secret folder. We'll head to the top secret secure folder next. Yea haw!

	Shop 1821		Bryan Dayton	10/12/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan. We were looking over some code that he did for the CCG group (time shares and resort management stuff). He added a bunch of new settings and got the page ready to go. It looked pretty good and had a number of lists and arrays and dynamic notation. We then spent some time working on his Linx payment solution (virtual wallet project). We went over some card reader stuff and tried to point him in a good direction. We also got on a phone call with Dave Forbis and talked about another similar project and what is needed there. Good session.

	Shop 1906		Black Box Project	10/12/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick. We fixed a few pieces on the new black box project. We then did our first custom project on the add/edit parts (inventory items) section. We had a black box on the display page as well as on the action page. We tried to standardize what we could and pushed up the new files.

	Shop 1916		API code planning and check	10/12/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan. We looked at some of his code for his card reader stuff and then went on to look at some invoice locking code. We worked through some logic and then got Bryan pointed to a mini test page to test some of his logic. The bigger page was around 1,000 lines long and hard to figure out what was what. I recommended that he go and build a mini page to do some testing.

	Shop 1641		Adilas time	10/13/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick and Alan. Nick and I went through a bunch of invoice pages that need to be black boxed and we got Nick started on that. Alan and I then went through his sub sign-off code for elements of time and subs of time. We did some merging and made a couple small fixes and changes. Part way through, we were all working on our own little mini projects and such. That seems to work very well. I'm excited to see more pieces being done on elements of time (subs or add-on functions). Also, I am seeing more requests for access and instructions on how to use the adilas API sockets from outside parties and vendors. Interesting to see where things are growing and getting more heat and pressure.

	Shop 3724		Virtual Post-It Note	10/13/2016	-Fix the task and reoccurring expense/receipts stuff.

	Shop 1789		State API	10/13/2016

	Shop 1822		General	10/13/2016	Working on internal projects. Added some new settings for Full Circle Interactive Media (marketing, mass texting, and email blast company). Cleaning up the reoccurring expense/receipt pages (code clean-up for older files that were done by other developers). Doing emails and follow-ups.

	Shop 1887		Russell Moore	10/13/2016	On a Zoom session with Russell. We spent most of the time working on the AFB Footer Feed. We created a new JSON wrapper, added documentation, samples, and made it into a webservice or data feed. Most of the work was on my machine today vs. on Russell's machine. We got things ready and pushed some new prep code to all servers.

	Shop 1872		Alan Time	10/13/2016

	Shop 1891		General	10/13/2016	Phone calls with clients, doing some project management, calling and talking with other developers, etc.. Called and chatted with Bryan about a couple of projects - both old and new. Called and talked with Shawn about his role and how things are changing for him. He is looking to do more work for adilas vs. the other company that he was working with. Also did some recording of notes, clean-up, tech support calls, and emails.

	Shop 1013		Brandon out of the office all day	10/14/2016	Great day. I did some trail maintenance with my dad, helped moved some things, and small things around the house.

	Shop 1642		Adilas time	10/17/2016	On a GoToMeeting with Steve and Nick. Each of us were working on our own projects. Steve was working on RFID tag searches. Nick was doing invoice black box stuff. And I was bouncing between them. Shawn Curtis was over at my house as well, so I was helping the guys online and then helping Shawn with questions and small requests.

	Shop 1923		Linx API function	10/17/2016	On a GoToMeeting with Bryan. We talked about some advertising options on the main cart checkout page. We decided that we could push people out to the market, but we don't want to endorse a certain party or give up that prime real-estate. We also went over some ideas and options for custom jobs and how we want to quote them and get jobs lined out.

	Shop 4400		Virtual Post-It Note	10/17/2016	-Shawn's files to go live - test and prep -Merge and push code -Files -Database files -build new invoice -Payroll commission July, August, September -New PDF's -Vision and future hourly v.s. custom projects -Forgot password feature doesn't work

	Shop 4948		Virtual Post-It Note	10/17/2016	-Shawn's files to go live - test and prep. -Merge and push code. -Files. -Database files. -New invoice. -Build payroll commission July, August, September. -New PDF's - 1099's and W - Z's. -Vision and future - hourly vs custom projects.

	Shop 1823		Calvin Chipman	10/17/2016	On a phone call talking with Calvin. We went over the possible option for a native mobile app and how that could work. We also expanded the vision and talked about Calvin's auto process tool and stashing data and stats per day per location. We talked about other ways of speeding up queries and indexing things. We talked lots of mapping and concepts of 3d virtual world building off of pre-formatted data points (auto process stuff). We took it to the video or just-in-time building model based off of the data. This could be historic coming forward as well as present going forward (predictive modeling and projections). Expand as needed.

	Shop 1924		General	10/17/2016	Email and tech support stuff. Writing an email to a client to help Bryan with custom code and custom dashboard job.

	Shop 1921		Working with Shawn	10/17/2016	Shawn and I went upstairs and had lunch. While at lunch we talked about options and strategy for the current adilas team. Good stuff. Shawn has been over at my house all day today working on payroll stuff.

	Shop 1922		Meeting with Chris and Russell, Marketing Ideas	10/17/2016	On a Zoom session with Russell and Chris Johnnie. They were proposing some marketing ideas and opening up some conversations. Here are some of my notes: - They would like to sell the adilas marketplace back to us. This was going to be the adilas world project (back in the day) and they modified it to the adilas market. This is our community networking and marketing site. They were talking between $9,000 to $15,000. They would also consider possible monthly payments. - They pitched a model of they build it and get it ready and then resell it back to us. They stay on the front end of the development cycle. We get to pick and choose where we send them and what we want to buy back. - They would like to do a similar things with the adilas university project. They would like to build it out and get it started and then roll it back over to us. - They would like to keep pushing forward on the other projects that are on their tick list. - If we owned the adilas marketplace, we could negotiate prices and agreements for the market. Steve is the best source for filling up the market. We could give things away, charge, and push people there. This could also allow us to encourage a free market enterprise vs. an endorsed or pre-set market. - Russell had an adilas rep that asked about duplicating the adilas market for her own networking needs. Russell took the idea and would like to see it be a toggle on/off service for adilas clients. Basically a marketing and networking hub of sort for other companies. Mini networking teams. - AFB (adilas for business) would like to work on a long-term relationship with the main adilas company. - The adilas university site and concept needs to be able to duplicate as well. Basically, there are tons of people and companies who need to help educate and teach what they do or sell. A community learning center of sorts. Once again a toggle on/off service that comes with the adilas platform. - A note from Chris Johnnie - Maybe set the prices to help out loyal customers. This could be something that we add in for free and/or some kind of promotion or customer loyalty program or perk. - We may need to raise the commissions rates and system prices to a higher level. This could help make the ball go further. Higher prices and higher commission rates could help to sell the products or services. - Russell and Chris would love to see a 60-80% commission on the first year of service. It would then roll into the normal 20-40% commission as a reoccurring model. Basically, the first year is kinda front loaded. Once the client is stable and on the system, the reoccurring commission is at a smaller rate. Kinda like an investment. - We need and AFB would like to make a ecommerce version of adilas and help to gather the correct setup and sign-up information for a new adilas system. This would be a series of small forms that get and collect the corporation, location, and user information. This is a great lead in to packages and possible upsells. - What if we took the setup fee (say $150 - $250) and pushed a good portion of that to the rep or consultant to help with the setup and training of the client. Or, if the setup fee was increased, we could push a portion to training and education. Helping to get the clients off to the races on the right foot. - There are two huge keys: They are education and maintenance. Those two things may be more important than new features. - Russell gave the corn field analogy. He said, say you have some land but don't have the time to plant it. What if you allowed someone else to plant it and they get 60-80% of the corn the first year. Then the next year, they only get 20% of the corn that gets produced by that field (client payments for a system). Anyways, the goal and idea was to use other people to help plow the field and get things ready. They make enough and we get another field plowed. - We, as adilas, may need to help these guys keep pushing the ball forward and helping them with sales and what not. Keep moving forward and kicking the ball down the road.

	Shop 1867		Recording Notes	10/17/2016	Recording notes from a conversation and conference call between Russell Moore and Chris Johnnie and myself (Brandon Moore). See other notes for today's date. Transferring notes from smaller post-it notes to the actual elements of time for database storage.

	Shop 1643		Adilas time	10/18/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Alan and Steve. We got Alan all setup with Calvin's bulk FTP tool. We then pushed some code for the sub sign-off's for elements of time. We then helped Steve with some of his RFID tag search stuff. After that, Alan and Steve started to work on some state API connections.

	Shop 1790		Lunch Meeting	10/18/2016	Lunch meeting with Dave Forbis and Gene Spaulding. Talking about taking adilas into the assisted living and elderly care market. We also talked about city councils and other small niche areas. We talked options, ideas, funding, investments, and other related subjects. Good meeting.

	Shop 1824		Calvin Chipman	10/18/2016	Helping to point Calvin in a direction for getting to a good testing area for doing live API calls. Light help and pointers.

	Shop 1888		Russell Moore	10/18/2016	On a Zoom session with Russell. We merged in a couple of ecommerce files and pushed them up to all servers. Russell then went in and did some live testing to make sure that everything was ok. After that, we spent the rest of the time wiring up the AFB footer feed. This is a webservice or API socket call that uses elements of time and allows for companies to create a virtual news and events feed. It can be used locally or remotely between different servers. This is our first data feed that is internally controlled and fed. Pretty cool.

	Shop 1051		Adilas time	10/19/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Steve and Nick. We helped Steve with some queries and code on his RFID tag search page. He is searching both parent and child RFID tags and showing the output on the report. It is looking pretty good. Steve is really doing well and getting into the coding side of things.

	Shop 1926		standardize money types for API	10/19/2016

	Shop 4401		Virtual Post-It Note	10/19/2016	-Offer blogs, news, events, games, ad other feeds - communication options -We have had a request to do some private and group chat within the system -Our most important asset is our users and passed users -Run some reports on adilas users and their stats. Active v.s. inactive, logins, invoices, histories, clock in/out -Cash flow and budgeting options are needed. Very strongly - for almost every business -Smoke and mirrors between adilas and adilas for business -Go at the speed we are able. Let the cream rise to the top ( Hours ) -(9 - 12:15)Go to meeting with Steve and Nick. Helped Steve with some queries and code on his RFID tag search page. Nick worked on black boxes. Steve adn I talked about some different funding and sales options. Talked about Russell and Chris's ideas from EOT #1922 - expanded and see post-it notes. -(12:15 - 12:45)Helping Bryan with some bugs and updates -(1:15 - 3:00)Code sign-off and merging files. Pushed code and broke the checkout process. -(3:00 - 4:30)Nick and merging in invoice balck box code. Pushed up new files. Startedc on the ICS project

	Shop 1825		Calvin Chipman	10/19/2016

	Shop 1928		API code check	10/19/2016

	Shop 1920		Black Box Project	10/19/2016

	Shop 1868		Alan Time	10/19/2016

	Shop 1644		Adilas time	10/20/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick and Alan. We started out the day by going over where each of us were at. Alan then gave us a small little lesson on some object oriented programming stuff that he is learning at school. Good stuff. Here is a small recap. - Encapsulation - like a cfc - like code goes together - functions and methods - keep things separate - logic goes together, display goes together, and data goes together - Keep things simple - what to put in and what to expect? - Cohesion - things that are similar stick together (keep like tasks together) - limited goals and range of functions - Coupling - how much (data or other pieces) goes between the calls and passing the data back and forth - the goal is to pass as little as possible but yet keep the trail going - Readability - make things consistent and easy to understand. for example: y="smith" (bad) vs. last_name="smith" (good) - They recommend a noun for variables (describe the what it is) and a verb for methods or functions (what does it do or how does it behave) - Only use plurals if really plural - otherwise use singular After the small lesson, we had a small session on what this means inside of adilas and how we could use similar things for objects and data over time. We did some drawing and setup models that show objects being built and manipulated over and through time. We then talked about budgeting and how you could set goals and budgets according to what you wanted to do. You could then compare the two. We then talked about how if the model is based over time (x-axis) and you were also capturing the up/down of the resources (y-axis) and also the stacking and spatial pieces of the puzzle (z-axis). You could get some great predictive models that through data could show visual stories of what is going on and/or what we would like to have happen. Fun session. One more small note about time... It goes in both directions as far as we know. Backwards and forwards. That makes it a great base to build on. See and search other notes about the 3D timelines and 3D calendars in the developer's notebook. Steve came on and we talked about a server error that was on the server yesterday. There was an error with one little letter. We then pushed up the code and didn't check it. We shut down the servers for about 20 minutes. Steve was comparing the system to the human body. If we are in the vital pieces (heart, brain, lungs, etc.). Maybe push things to a single server and then fully test things. We need to setup some standard procedure and/or procedures. We also talked about not forcing things. If needed, we could always push things to another session. We also need a calling tree and line of authority of who can fix what and what to do. There is another need for communication back to our clients. It is fun and kinda crazy to create this music and symphony. It is never done and it keeps going. Sometimes we are realizing dreams and other times we are pulling out our hair. It is both addicting and frustrating at the same time. Keep building and searching for the bliss. What a mix of highs, lows, joy, happiness, depression, anxiety, funk, pleasure, purpose, vision, etc.. What a random ride... We are nothing without each other. The sum of the blocks make up the tower.

	Shop 4402		Virtual Post-It Note	10/20/2016	-On the adilas API socket stuff, check foe usage with the https (ssl stuff). It works with normal http but not with the "s" or the ssl ("https"). -(Hours) -(9:00 - 11:00)Go to meeting. Notes are there -(1:30 - 2:30)Go to meeting with Steve. funding, Cabbage, team and working on some JavaScript -(2:30 - 5:00)Zoom Russell working on the footer feed for Elements of Time

	Shop 1792		State API	10/20/2016

	Shop 1826		Calvin Chipman	10/20/2016

	Shop 1889		Russell Moore	10/20/2016

	Shop 1873		Alan Time	10/20/2016

	Shop 1890		Russell Moore	10/20/2016

	Shop 1014		Brandon out of the office all day	10/21/2016

	Shop 4403		Virtual Post-It Note	10/21/2016	-thresholds and numbers based off of numbers -Inventory levels and thresholds -New page and do it per location -Notify them when a threshold is hit or passed -time based -API socket connection to Push the reports -EOT #1014 in adilas community funded Projects -Extra service and functions -Text or emails alerts -Max and min levels -Between adilas customers and do feeds and feeders -(Hours) -(1:00 - 4:00)Go to meeting with Alan and doing Exports to excel -(4:05 - 5:15)Go to meeting with Bryan - doing a custom quote on a dashboard and summary page. -(5:15 - 6:00)Phone call with Dave Forbis - going over inventory thresholds, max and min levels,ecta.. API socket connections and general business stuff.

	Shop 1929		Alan Time	10/21/2016	Exports to Excel.

	Shop 4404		Virtual Post-It Note	10/22/2016	-(8:00 - 9:00)Emails and paying bills -(9:30 - 10:30)Emails and tech support -(10:30 - 11:45)Bug fixes, time, includes for black box bodies -(2:00 - 4:30)Black box includes and small validation patch for the add/edit sub inventory page -(9:15 - 10:00)Merging files and pushing the live. Light testing.

	Shop 1645		Adilas time	10/24/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick and Steve. Nick was working on the black box project. He is entering the cart and shopping cart land (page sets and page groups) now. Steve was working on a small page to run some mini conversions. Basically, they are grabbing data and then making a mini form that allows the user to virtually divide the product into known sub pieces (mini conversions going from grams to ounces, grams to each, etc.). I helped out with some small questions and then did a bunch of emails and phone calls. I was on the phone with Shannon, Bryan, Will, and Russell. I spent almost an hour on the phone with Russell. He was talking shop and ideas that he and Chris Johnnie would like to do. They would like to focus more on sales and marketing vs. new development and building. We talked pros and cons and had a good conversation. The hard part is really making things happen in a timely manner. Things tend to happen, it just seems to play out at a much slower pace than what we had hoped.

	Shop 1827		Calvin Chipman	10/24/2016	On a phone call with Calvin going over a new Windows based service that will be put on the data 5 server. It will watch and monitor changes in files and let certain people know that changes have been made. This is a custom effort to help keep some of our clients up to date on changes that happen within the adilas.biz files and file structure. Most of our phone call was just going over flow and details. Interesting project.

	Shop 1934		Working with Shawn	10/24/2016	Pushing new state code to the master branch. Didn't happen. Shawn was working from home today.

	Shop 1931		General	10/24/2016	Working on the 3rd party solutions page for ICS. They need some custom mappings per location. Setting up the page to display store/location mappings and then being able to save the settings. Light phone calls and tech support stuff here and there during the session.

	Shop 1869		Alan Time	10/24/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Alan looking over exports to Excel. We did a lot of back and forth and did some testing. We swapped a couple of files using email to get things up to date and good to go. We ended with Alan being willing to go back through the different files and do some standardization.

	Shop 1646		Adilas time	10/25/2016	GoToMeeting session with Nick, Alan, Steve, and Danny Shuford. Alan reported on some API socket stuff. We helped Steve with some API socket stuff and connections. We then broke into our own groups and worked on projects. Steve and Danny were working together. Alan, Nick, and I were doing our own little projects. Nick was doing black box stuff. Alan was prepping files for Steve and I was working on some custom store/location mappings for a 3rd party vendor page.

	Shop 1945		Ok to do custom work	10/25/2016	On a phone call with Steve going over funding options and such. Sometimes I get tunnel vision and think that there are only a certain number of ways to solve a problem. That is very limited thinking. Expand your vision and look around. "Do custom work to fix the funding crunch. That is ok!" - Steve Berkenkotter. Remember the story of "Who moved my cheese?" We have to change and adapt as needed. That may take some mixing and blending vs. a pre-set person, place, or thing that we do or count on. We may have to come up with a hybrid-type solution.

	Shop 1794		State API	10/25/2016	Small GoToMeeting session with Steve. We talked about funding and how custom projects are great to help supplement internal building and maintenance. That was good to hear. Sometimes I get stuck on just doing things one way (say internally funding things vs. externally funding our guys). Anyways, short conversation and then we worked on our own projects. I finished up the 3rd party solutions page for the ICS project. It has some dynamic store/location mappings that get recorded and updated as needed. Lots of loop-ity loops stuff. Sent off a screen shot to the client for approval.

	Shop 1828		Calvin Chipman	10/25/2016	Quick phone call to touch base and give a small report. Nothing major at this point. He is still building some of the new server monitoring and file changes pieces and reports.

	Shop 1892		Russell Moore	10/25/2016	Working with Russell over a Zoom session. We were working on cascading the show on the web setting for elements of time to the respective pages. We added code to the add/edit page, the working with time page, the gallery page, the printable time page, and the advanced time search page. We also did some planning and made some to do lists of other tweaks and changes that are needed to fully roll this out. Good session. Towards the end of the session, I was getting tired and was having a hard time focusing. Too many meetings...

	Shop 1935		Talking with Dave	10/25/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Dave Forbis. We were going over requests from CCG - Capital Consulting Group. They have a slick one-page custom shopping cart. They enter the data and it creates a number of PDF documents and creates an invoice behind the scenes. All from just one simple little page. They have a couple of new requests and some small tweaks that need to be made. Going over things with Dave.

	Shop 1936		Working	10/25/2016	General stuff. Just trying to push things along. Nothing really to note or mention.

	Shop 1052		Adilas time	10/26/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Steve, Nick, and Danny. We started out the morning looking at a custom label page that Danny was working on. His code was not part of master so we actually overwrote a small part of it. We got it all figured out and talked about the concept of who has the last cookie (version control)? We then worked in our own little blocks. I did some phone calls and worked on a custom file to create CSV (comma separated values) files. Nick was doing black box stuff. And Steve was bouncing in and out of the meetings. Towards the end, Eric Tauer (developer from Salida, CO) got on the call. We went over our plans for a new page that will help convert inventory items that are in a shopping cart from parent inventory to child inventory. Lots of talk and ideas on the subject. This is needed as we have a number of outside feeders that make quotes and then we have to restore those items to the cart for final checkout, fulfillment, and other user related tasks.

	Shop 1944		Simple skins and tools for businesses	10/26/2016	While talking with Shawn Curtis about adilas, we thought it would be good to record a note on making super simple tools and features such as mileage, easy expense tracking, project time clocks, simple appointments, basic to do lists, etc. Make it easy and super intuitive and super simple for the users. Basically, an out of the box turn key type skin or app.

	Shop 1829		Calvin Chipman	10/26/2016

	Shop 1937		Working with Shawn	10/26/2016	Working with Shawn on new tax settings and files. Passing data back and forth. I also did some emails and other phone calls while we were working.

	Shop 1932		Black Box Project	10/26/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick. We were merging and signing off on his black box changes. We got about 3/4 of the way done through about 75 pages of changes. Most of it went very smooth and minor little changes and/or hiccups. Great job.

	Shop 1870		Alan Time	10/26/2016

	Shop 1894		Russell Moore	10/26/2016

	Shop 1647		Adilas time	10/27/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Nick, Alan, and Eric Tauer from Salida. We did some light introductions between the guys and jumped into a brainstorming session. Eric and I worked on the ideas and concepts to help with a new cart based page that converts a parent line item into a child or sub inventory line item. See attached for some notes and what not. As part of our session, we did a bunch of drawing and went through the needs and even progression of what is happening as things mature and evolve. Lots of ideas and concepts for the smart cart logic, pricing matrix options, and other tiered pricing stuff. I worked with Alan on some database and invoice API questions. I then spent the rest of the time working with Nick on our large merge project for the black boxes. We got in pretty deep into the cart logic. It is interesting that we keep finding these big hubs of activity and logic. The cart or shopping cart is a huge convergence of pieces and is virtually the gateway to the system.

	Shop 1943		Set code standards	10/27/2016	While talking with Russell Moore today, we talked about a couple of pieces that need to come into play here soon. Cohesion and making sure we have good code being pushed live. We need to setup the nets for the developers. Take your time and do it right. We also need to protect the code from the last cookie syndrome and overwriting other code from developers (system wide version control and standard procedures).

	Shop 1830		Calvin Chipman	10/27/2016	On a phone call with Calvin going over standards and making sure all of the developers are using Git and our version control stuff. We have a couple of developers who are not using that and it is causing problems with other developers overwriting code that was done by other developers. Basically, we are starting to virtually walk over or trip over each other's code. We need to standardize things and make sure protocols are followed.

	Shop 1793		Tech Support	10/27/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with a client helping them with a printer problem. We checked the printer, settings, margins, receipt paper, etc. We ended up switching browsers to make it work. After that was done, I spent some time and recorded some other notes from the day. Sometimes it gets crazy and it is hard to keep up.

	Shop 1893		Russell Moore	10/27/2016	On a Zoom session with Russell. We were working on the developer's notebook pages and section. We fixed some corp id number stuff and started working on the corp switching options. We ran into some CSS and header/footer (look and feel) problems. That sent us on a side tangent for the remainder of the session. Trying to track down changes, paths, settings, defaults, and how to allow for dynamic switching between corps (with and without valid logins).

	Shop 1874		Alan Time	10/27/2016

	Shop 1015		Brandon out of the office all day	10/28/2016	Took the day off and spent it up in the mountains doing trail work and hiking. Good day.

	Shop 3834		Virtual Post-It Note	10/30/2016	5:00-6:00 Recording notes. 9:15-5:15 Logan, meeting with Bryan on Shop funding options, light heat about rules vs. making it happen. GoToMeeting Session w/Daniel, Jake, and Calvin on GPS stuff/ Google Maps API stuff and getting files. Brainstorming. Prep work for checking the Hypur API code on the submit cart page. Four hour session working with Nick and Bryan on ideas for a shop Affiliate Program, in store credit; loyalty points and gift cars. We also talked about promotion codes, referral tracking, and programmable cart logic and advanced pricing matrixes. 5:15-5:45 Reading the Rules of the Shop.

	Shop 1648		Adilas time	10/31/2016	On a GoToMeeting session. Eric Tauer popped in and we chatted for a bit. I was doing some shop time clean-up and recording notes. I also got on a call with Dave Forbis and we went over a number of different items. He has been doing some demos and helping with project management stuff. We spent about half an hour going over the different projects and options. Dave has been a huge helper over the years. I spent the rest of the session cleaning up post-it notes and doing stuff inside the elements of time for the shop. Lots of recording notes and ideas. I've got a huge stack of post-it notes that need to be recorded.

	Shop 1941		Official policies	10/31/2016	We keep running into scenarios where an official policy or policies would really help. It may be worth a couple days worth of time to set some the virtual nets in place to help protect all of us. We have a developer that made something for a client and the client is not paying. The developer wants to pull the custom code. That is fair, we just need to get an official stance on the issue. There are other things that need to be defined as well.

	Shop 1942		Finish out the clock in/out section more fully	10/31/2016	I was asked today how much just the clock in/out portion would cost? I said $17/month or something like that. Along with that, I had the idea to fully finish out that section, including the department clock in/out page. Maybe check it out and fully finish that part of the puzzle out. That is a great toe in the door type feature that could progress to other uses of the system. That would be my vote to finish that section up and make it tight and then use it as the fall back feature for almost any business. Search and see other notes on this same subject.

	Shop 1831		Calvin Chipman	10/31/2016	On a phone call with Calvin going over progress and talking about what folders on the servers that should and should not be monitored for files changes. That is Calvin's current project. A small app that keeps track of files and when they get modified and changed and/or added.

	Shop 1939		GDA balance sheet	10/31/2016	On a GoToMeeting session with Bryan. We worked on some custom interfaces for his client. Most of our time was spent re-writing some custom queries and using flex grid to filter the records that needed to be displayed. We also got on a phone call with Dave Forbis to talk about project management and an older project that is still out. We also talked about a non-paying client and our plans for shutting down their custom code until payment is made. After our meeting. I used a little bit of time and did emails and light clean-up.

	Shop 1871		Alan Time	10/31/2016

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