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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 4/1/2010 to 4/30/2010 - (29)
Photos	Time Id	Color	Title/Caption	Start Date	Notes
	AU 86		Daily Tasks	4/1/2010	• Checking on and sending emails to the adilas.com folks. • On the phone with Steve fixing a problem for customer. • Also did a little research on QR (quick response) codes, on Wikipedia, good stuff. • Worked on special line items. • Added the values to the corp-wide setting page. Over 100+ new fields.

	AU 87		Daily Tasks	4/2/2010	• Working on special line items and application pages and settings.

	AU 88		Daily Tasks	4/5/2010	• Working on special line items and showing up for roll call. • Added a prep step for the credit card payment page. Hopefully this will help speed up the transaction time.

	AU 89		Daily Tasks	4/6/2010	• Went to a home to meet with a contact about a company’s website and logo. 15 miles. • Small fix on the switch between basic live PO’s and special live PO’s. Able to switch back and forth now with no problems. Posted files online. • Working on the COGS on the income statement. • Also worked on special line items and payroll settings.

	AU 90		Daily Tasks	4/7/2010	• On the phone with Steve going over progress and needs. • Worked on a four page pdf file for a company. Posted the pdf. • Went in to a company to check internet connections. Did some consulting and prep work. 10 miles.

	AU 109		Daily Ideas	4/7/2010	-When doing corp-wide settings – hide/show correct options, report types, etc. for vehicles, trailers, toppers, etc. use the inventory types and hide/show payroll, commission, and report types that deal with units (if applicable). If they don’t use it – hide it completely from view.

	AU 91		Daily Tasks	4/8/2010	• Went in to a company and did a demo for the manager, the owner, the owner’s wife and another associate. Lots of questions and a great meeting. As far as the demo, I only got to show a very small part of the system. We went over PO’s, parts and shopping cart. I was also able to show them the pre-built customer web pages. We spent a lot of time talking concepts and actual flow. We also went quite heavily into barcode reading and point of sale stuff. We ended the meeting and they said a verbal “GO”. I promised them a quote and a hardware recommendation list. Good stuff. 10 miles. • Went out to Poncha to meet with a customer. We started working on their bank balances and such. Good meeting and we covered deposits and expense/receipts. We used lots of advanced searches, verify options and bank reconciliation stuff. We also spent about 20 minutes talking about history and future of adilas. 5 miles. • Research on thermal transfer receipt printer. • Worked on some barcode stuff. • On the phone with Steve going over a request for the customer log report. We also talked about barcodes and both of our successes today. • Went in to town and worked with a customer on adilas stuff. We did balance sheet stuff; flex grid stuff, customer logs, corp-wide settings, banks, etc. Great meeting. 10 miles.

	AU 92		Daily Tasks	4/9/2010	• Working on quotes for a company. Created a general system quote and a hardware report. Spent quite a bit of time getting the hardware requirements on paper. • An associate came over and we talked some strategy for this company. We talked about barcodes, receipt printers and migration stuff. While chatting with this associate, the manager from this company called and we chatted for a bit. We have an appointment tomorrow at 3:00pm to start the process. • Working on a company’s logo. • Ideas and brainstorming.

	AU 93		Daily Tasks	4/10/2010	• On the phone with Steve going over inventory management. We talked about options to duplicate PO’s, PO shopping cart (reverse flow on ordering), we also talked about retail point of sale stuff like barcodes and receipt printers. Good stuff! We also talked about some of our other client needs on invoices, customer time clocks and customer logs. • Did some research on CrystalTech site about using ColdFusion and USAePay; not much there. I may need to dig deeper if eCommerce problem persists. • An associate came over and both of us went in to town to meet with the manager of a company. We answered questions, did some training, did a little bit of data entry and talked a lot of theory; good meeting. • Company logo ideas.

	AU 110		Daily Ideas	4/10/2010	Talking to Steve on 4/10/10 -Big request: PO – duplicating and point and click to divide PO’s -Receive parts for a certain vendor. -Whatever wasn’t received is now available for a different PO. -PO cart -Backorders (customers and vendors): backorders need an option to split PO’s and invoices so that it keeps pushing things forward. -Just in time inventory and order tracking.

	AU 94		Daily Tasks	4/12/2010	• Working on special line items. • Added a new corp-wide setting filed to help limit the daily/weekly sales report. • Worked on the grouped customer logs. • Posted files online. • Updated database but was having problem with SQL-Front. May need to replace it. • Posted new pages online. Light testing of new pages.

	AU 2160		Sales Tax Report Ideas	4/12/2010	Sales tax report ideas: Roll Call - Item/Units/Parts o Loop over specials o Totals - Gross Sales - Taxes collected

	AU 95		Daily Tasks	4/13/2010	• Testing and working on help files. • On the phone with a customer going over settings and new corp-wide options for special line items. • Research on barcodes. • Playing with grouping options for the customer log. • On the phone with Steve going over income statements. Also going over request from a customer to map to the expense side of things. We talked about barcodes and other things, good stuff. • On the phone with a customer for an hour and a half. Went over quotes, parts and invoice sales reports, etc. They are having fun.

	AU 96		Daily Tasks	4/14/2010	• Working on a company’s logo. • Fixed the customer log report to help group items and logs. It is set up to only show the last entry. Posted files online. • Went in to a company to work with them. An associate and I helped them with a wireless router, answered questions, did some training and came up with some strategy stuff. I also added two new features. I added a retail pricing option to the printable PO’s and added the profit percentage to the global update tool. Posted files online. 10 miles.

	AU 111		Daily Ideas	4/14/2010	Random note: My associate and I went in to another company and talked with them about adilas. They are in the process of moving to the Penny Pincher and would like to check it out in a week or so. -Every page needs a roll call (where applicable) link. It shows how the line items tie in and where or how it shows up for roll call. Basically, this shows the roll call flags, dates and stamps. -Along with this, we also need the reflexive side of the flex grid or where, what else is tied to it.

	AU 97		Daily Tasks	4/15/2010	• On the phone with a customer going over PO’s and line items. • Went back to the grouped customer log report and decided to change the sort options. • Did some research on structures and sorting structures. • On the phone with Steve going over new prospects and new changes. • Worked on the new grouped customer log output with dynamic structure sort options. • Finished up the grouped customer log page. Posted files online. • Updated help files. • Started working on roll call and special handling of special line items as an expense.

	AU 98		Daily Tasks	4/16/2010	• Went in to town and went on a zip line trip. No tip, military. • While in town stopped by a couple of companies. The one company is still pretty set with staying with their other system, yet is still willing to talk to us. Also stopped by a company using adilas just to check in. 10 miles. • Working on a web layout for a company. Sent proof for review. • For a company added the logo to all pages including the shopping cart. Added correct address info and updated contact and about us pages on the shopping cart. Sent an email update. Invoiced on 4/22/10. • Worked on a Flash animation for a company. • Worked on the P&L and special line items as an expense. Launched the new files. • Updated help files for the new corp0wide setting. • Sent an update to the interested customer about the new change.

	AU 99		Daily Tasks	4/17/2010	• Finished up the animation for a company. Posted files online. Called and they wanted a couple of tweaks. Spent 2.5 hours on a rework and reposted files online. Turned out pretty cool.

	AU 100		Daily Tasks	4/19/2010	• Reworking the web mock-up for a company. Added new houses, images, switched some logos around and minor verbiage tweaks. • Went in to town. Went on a zip line trip. Commercial, $20 tip. Invoiced on 4/20 for 4 trips from 3/26/10 to 4/19/10. • Working on a list price and mark-up switch for toppers and trailers.

	AU 101		Daily Tasks	4/20/2010	• Working with CrystalTech on problem with cfx_jpegresize cfx tag. Wrote a follow-up email to help document the problem. • Working on a pricing helper filed on the add/edit parts page. • Posted files online. • Went in to town with an associate and helped at a company. Went over parts, PO’s, special line items, ordering and changing a request into a live PO. Associate drove.

	AU 102		Daily Tasks	4/21/2010	• On the phone with a customer about reimbursements and splits. • Converted a company’s web mock-up graphic in to a real web page. More site setup and getting settings turned on. Worked with CrystalTech to get the domain name up and running. Invoiced for 8 hours.

	AU 108		Daily Tasks	4/22/2010	• Added the Java Script to the add/edit parts page to help with price calks on the fly. Posted files online. • New logo for a company. • On the phone with a customer going over balance sheet pass through accounts. • Worked on the price switch for toppers and trailers. • On the phone with Steve for an hour. We talked about tons of options and different subjects. We talked PO’s, conversions, pricing, point of sale, serialized inventory tracking, corp-wide settings, storage, credit card processing.

	AU 103		Daily Tasks	4/26/2010	• Research on barcodes. • On the phone with Steve going over possible options. • Checking on a company eval problem. The problem ended up being a SQL injection error. • Added new locations for a company site.

	AU 112		Daily Ideas	4/26/2010	-Add the quick search keyword of “all” to get all vendors, all customers, all units, all everything. Most of the pages already have pagination on them.

	AU 104		Daily Tasks	4/27/2010	• Research on barcodes. Looking in to drawing the barcodes for the 128 B code. • On the phone with Steve going over progress for the day. • Added a new customer type filter to the customer logs. • Worked on some small fixes. • Added a line description filter to the advanced PO line item search. • Added corp-wide settings for invoices to the limited format. • Cleaned up the create check request links. • Posted files online.

	AU 105		Daily Tasks	4/28/2010	• On the phone with CrystalTech asking about the SQL injection problem. Checking the company’s evals and leaving a message with them. Sent an email to them about the update. • On the phone with a customer going over request for a grouped customer report. We talked about group drill-downs from the income statement. • Worked on the stock unit price switch. • On the phone with another customer. • Worked on the grouped customer portion of the P&L reverse drill-down. • Launched files and updated help files. • On the phone with Steve going over the progress of the day.

	AU 2161		Ideas for Best Sellers Report	4/28/2010	Ideas for the Best Sellers Report - Pull from invoices (line items) and don’t include taxes - Show COGS, Revenue, Profit, and Profit Percentage - Customer Type - Customer Name - Inventory Type - Sub Inventory Type – (Either or) - Part Category – (Either or) - Make - Model - Part - Vendor - Salesperson - Profit - Gross sales P&L Grouping - Customer with 2 or more invoices assigned to them show the report type id dynamic name - Customer Type, Customer Name, Count, Total Revenue, Total COGS, Total Profit, Profit %

	AU 106		Daily Tasks	4/29/2010	• Working on help files. • On the phone with a customer going over questions. • Working on changing the global trailer mark-up page into a global unit mark=up page. • Playing with new toys. Setting up the barcode scanner and thermal receipt printer. • Went in to town. Stopped by a company and spoke with them and setup a demo for Monday afternoon. I also stopped by another company and dropped off some adilas flyers. 10 miles.

	AU 107		Daily Tasks	4/30/2010	• Working through a company’s email eval issue. Called CrystalTech and got some help from them. • Playing with the mini receipt printer. Working on the global unit mark-up and pricing page. • Went in to town and worked with a company. We spent some time talking PO, parts and vendors. Lots of theory. We actually did some work and drawings on paper. I have an appointment for tomorrow at 2:00pm. 10 miles. • Working on the global unit mark-up and pricing page. Added an alpha sort for the quick search. Finished up a couple of other tweaks and posted files. • Updated help files and tested online. • Quick email to Steve with an update.

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