Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 4/1/2016 to 4/30/2016 - (149)
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Shop 985 | Brandon out of the office all day | 4/1/2016 |
Went up to Beaver Mountain. Ended up giving an hour long training session to the Cammeil and Debbie. They gave me a small list of requests. Most of them dealt with navigation and removing un-needed fields from the add/edit page on the flex grid. That seems to be a common request. Basically, people love the functionality, but it looks or feels complicated. They want it to be a more simple type interface. Part way through the day, I spoke with Travis Seeholzer about adilas and what we can offer to Beaver Mountain. I had a great day on the hill and got in a lot of just fun freeriding. I ended up spending all afternoon riding with students that I had in my college classes. Good day. |
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Shop 876 | Sub Inventory | 4/4/2016 | Working with Steve on some questions that he had with sub inventory and some custom reports that he is building. On a GoToMeeting session working on code. Sub inventory still needs some major loving to get it tightened up. | |||
Shop 847 | Bryan Dayton | 4/4/2016 |
Working on a flex grid wire job. We opened up a number of sample pages to get code and see how other project had been run. Trying to get him the code he needs for his project. The last half of the session was spent brainstorming on the world building project (splitting up the databases) up at the board. We ended up going until 2 pm with small phone calls and such in between. On the phone with Calvin for 15 minutes and then on the phone with Steve for an hour going over the state of the project and what is required. We decided to stick with the older model for now until we can get some funding to advanced to the newer level. |
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Shop 3314 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/4/2016 |
Sub inventory - maybe show the package id number on the invoice or on the edit line items page -we need some pagination on the top_secret/admin_error_reports.cfm -huge results sets |
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Shop 706 | Calvin Chipman | 4/4/2016 | Small phone call for about 15 minutes. Just touched base and talked about API stuff and the future of the world building database tools. | |||
Shop 1161 | Shawn | 4/4/2016 | This didn't happen. Ran out of time. | |||
Shop 1087 | Adilas World/ Adilas for Business & New Project | 4/4/2016 | Met with Nick and went over some questions about uploading media/content. We looked at a couple of pages as samples and possible code to use. Nick is working on the adilas marketplace or adilas world section. Super cool stuff, but he is having to rewrite a number of different things to help it all get wired up. | |||
Shop 1105 | Icons | 4/4/2016 |
Final stuff on the data 5 server. We had to do some research on the API folder and how to get it to work. ColdFusion made a change to their program and took over that folder name for their restful API calls. We ended up commenting out some code on the web.xml file in the WEB-INF folder that dealt with the api folder path. We prepped the server tie-in pages and pushed new files to all servers. We updated some help files and cascaded those around to all servers. We also called a client to schedule the migration of the data from data 2 to data 5. |
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Shop 1163 | Working with Russell on ecommerce | 4/4/2016 | Working with Russell on new ecommerce display modes and responsive tables. Cool stuff. | |||
Shop 1134 | Code sign off - Custom Cart | 4/4/2016 | Met with Will and signed off on a some light code changes for a custom cart he is working on. Talked about other projects. | |||
Shop 877 | Sub Inventory | 4/5/2016 |
Talking with Russell about trials and struggles in life. Dave came in and we talked about some projects On the phone with Steve talking about project management, people, and what we need to do. |
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Shop 848 | Shop meeting about project management | 4/5/2016 |
Team meeting with Dave, Bryan, Russell, Shawn, Chris Johnnie, and my self. We started out with problems: - incoming sources of project requests - my email, Steve's email, Dave's email, Shannon's email, Bryan's email, phone calls, from reps, etc. - time to get back with clients - communication breakdowns - not done/broken - who - $ monies/commissions/ownership - changing ground - we are too nice - knowledge gap - tech/skills The gap model, cart and horse, sales and custom jobs, data assembly line, time (x axis), monies/resources (y axis), space/organization (z axis), shop/hub model, project costing Team Building: - Forming - Storming - Norming - Performing Possible Solutions: - Adilas World - Adilas Market - Adilas University - Developer's Notebook - Companion Software Packages - People - Process or processes - procedures - tools - Quoting Process - Cover ourselves - Education |
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Shop 707 | Calvin Chipman | 4/5/2016 | Quick call just touching base. | |||
Shop 1106 | Icons | 4/5/2016 | Light research on TCP/IP connections with ColdFusion. Called and talked with Calvin about the Midax and Expo job. We also got a image folder transfer ticket in to Newtek for the upcoming server migration for 5 corps for Emerald Fields. | |||
Shop 902 | Adilas world projects | 4/5/2016 | Working on the adilas ecommerce skins. We added some new special pagination to the mobile display tables. Other small tweaks. The mobile display option shrinks and allows for sub filtering of the results. It also has its own pagination (next and previous page stuff). | |||
Shop 878 | Sub Inventory | 4/6/2016 | Worked on the advanced PO and invoice sub inventory searches and search results pages. Added pagination and an export to Excel for the sub PO line items. | |||
Shop 849 | Bryan Dayton | 4/6/2016 | Signing off on code for the multi payment settings for carts, invoices, deposits, and expense/receipts. We only got three of the pages done and signed off on. Lots of dynamic in and out based on JSON storage and retrieval stuff. | |||
Shop 3315 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/6/2016 |
-sell some ski areas -(planning for the shop) -First contact -Defined project -Quote -Assigned -Finished |
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Shop 708 | Calvin Chipman | 4/6/2016 | Small call with Calvin and B. Dayton about the Midax payment solution. Talking about connections, directions, and starting points. | |||
Shop 1178 | Meeting with Dave for project management and planning phases | 4/6/2016 | Demo and showing Dave and B. Dayton about the sub phases, sub flags, sub tags, and sub locations. We talked about how to implement some of these new things into the shop project management process. Progress notes, wire jobs, etc. | |||
Shop 903 | Adilas world projects | 4/6/2016 | Ecommerce stuff. Working on the longer descriptions for a display mode. Talking about bringing in all of the ecommerce settings into one general place or sub homepage. | |||
Shop 1181 | Planning for the Hypur project | 4/6/2016 | Planning for the Hypur project, timelines, timeframes, best and worst case scenarios. On the phone with Steve going over funds and projects. | |||
Shop 879 | Sub Inventory | 4/7/2016 | Phone call with Steve to talk about clients wanting new revamped ecommerce sites. We talked about three different developers. They were Russell, Will, and Garrett. All of those guys have dealt with adilas ecommerce before. We are leaning towards Russell and what he is doing. | |||
Shop 1099 | Chris Johnnie - School Demo | 4/7/2016 |
Meet at 9:30 am at Thomas Edison North with 6ish staff members from 2 campuses to demo Adilas. Notes: Met up with Chris Johnnie and Dave Forbis and went over to the school. We were on a Skype session with the other campus. I did the demo and Chris and Dave helped with the questions, ideas, and feedback. Good demo. We covered some student stuff, media/content, photos/scans, inventory, barcoding desks and chairs, expense tracking, and other budgeting requirements. We have everything other than some of the budgeting features (may need watchers and feeders - inside of elements of time). Other than that, we were able to bounce in and show tons of potential. We also talked quite a bit about custom reports, ecommerce pieces (for parents and students), and custom interfaces. We have met with this school three or four times (in the last 6-8 months). I think that they are finally getting it and the timing seems right. The principle is looking to retire in the next year and a half. He wants to get things setup correctly for the new incoming principle. Great meeting. |
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Shop 850 | Bryan Dayton | 4/7/2016 |
Working with Bryan on code sign-off for dynamic money type selections for carts, invoices, deposits, and expense/receipts. We finished the whole process and pushed up almost 40 files that play along with the new settings. Good session. We did take a couple of breaks and did some other random stuff, but most of this entire session on spent on code sign-off. |
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Shop 709 | Calvin Chipman | 4/7/2016 | Phone call with B. Dayton and Calvin. Talking about the Midax/Expo project. We were trying to see how deep we wanted to jump into the mix. Calvin was seeing some possible red flags with the project and how much would be required of the application. A number of unknowns. | |||
Shop 1107 | Icons | 4/7/2016 | More code sign-off with Bryan on the dynamic money types for carts, invoices, deposits, and expense/receipts. | |||
Shop 793 | Analytics | 4/7/2016 | ||||
Shop 1088 | Adilas Market | 4/7/2016 | Working with Nick on the media/content uploads for the adilas marketplace. We spent quite a bit of time looking at older code and grabbing pieces that we needed. Working through the process. | |||
Shop 986 | Brandon out of the office all day | 4/8/2016 | ||||
Shop 1098 | Chris Johnnie - Meeting - White Label | 4/8/2016 | Meet with Kevin Gulledge about white label | |||
Shop 1201 | Meeting with Adam Tew and his brothers | 4/8/2016 | Meeting with William, Hyrum, and Adam Tew via Google hangouts. Possible project to help get the quote funnel up and going. | |||
Shop 1202 | Emails and Invoicing | 4/8/2016 | Emails, tech support, and project invoice for the Hypur projects (5 separate projects). | |||
Shop 881 | Sub Inventory | 4/11/2016 | ||||
Shop 1167 | Quoting | 4/11/2016 |
Lots of time working on the Hypur project. See element of time # 1133 for details. Still to do: Steve's quotes - new elements of time Project Funnel - planning for Adam's brothers - William and Hyrum Dave's List of Projects - Green Fields Define Some Processes Developer to Client Relationships - Track special code/developers Consultants and getting things standardized |
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Shop 852 | Bryan Dayton | 4/11/2016 | ||||
Shop 710 | Calvin Chipman | 4/11/2016 | Quick phone call with both Calvin and B. Dayton to talk about the Midax integration. Both Calvin and B. Dayton are running into some technical difficulties with the project. Talking about stopping and putting a hold this project. | |||
Shop 1135 | Alan Time | 4/11/2016 | Get on the same page. | |||
Shop 906 | Adilas world projects | 4/11/2016 | Working with Russell on getting all of the ecommerce settings in one place and on one page. Lots of copying and pasting to get things to work together. Light training on building new internal methods (ColdFusion components). | |||
Shop 1207 | Server Setup | 4/11/2016 | Going over projects and cleaning up some code for a custom add new client form for the web. This form also asks tons of extra questions that get stored in flex grid. Almost like a medical record of sorts. | |||
Shop 1209 | Working with Bryan on the Emerald Fields data migration | 4/12/2016 |
Special midnight trip into the shop. Working with Bryan on a data migration project. We did some prep work and got things ready for the migration. We then migrated 100 tables worth of data from the data 2 server to the data 5 server. This was just over 1.5 million database records. We tag teamed on the process and were going pretty fast. Good session and we got a number of new notes and such. Tired, but good. |
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Shop 1214 | Emails | 4/12/2016 | Emails and light tech support. We had a couple small fixes that were needed to help get the new data migration project completely finished and polished up. Phone calls and emails. | |||
Shop 882 | Sub Inventory | 4/12/2016 | On a GoToMeeting session with Steve. We were looking over code for printing bulk labels with sub inventory attributes. We talked a lot about current projects and direction that we are going in. Lots of API and ecommerce stuff going on. Sub inventory is still a pretty hot topic as well. Our plan is to just keep going and pushing on things. | |||
Shop 1108 | Icon | 4/12/2016 | I canceled this appointment. Bryan and I were up all night migrating data for Emerald Fields. | |||
Shop 3316 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/12/2016 |
-On migration,check the chooser options to get custom .cfm pages. -Check forms for custom labels and custom documents. -Export to CSV on almost every page. -Allow columns to be sortable on the fly using javascript or JQuery |
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Shop 711 | Calvin Chipman | 4/12/2016 |
On the phone with Calvin for a bit. We talked about the data migration process and what we could do to help automate the process and take things to the next level. I throw out the idea of a checkbox for options of drop & create while exporting data, as well as a small repeatable filter option that would allow a filter option for the corp id(s). Calvin would like to see our notes and process and then maybe help us jump even further down the road. |
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Shop 1136 | Tech support | 4/12/2016 | At the shop answering phone calls, doing email, and helping with tech support stuff. Worked a little bit with Russell on some ecommerce stuff. | |||
Shop 1208 | Code sign off | 4/12/2016 | Code sign off with Will. Going over some new changes for the Biotrack API interface. Light training and light clean-up. | |||
Shop 883 | Sub Inventory | 4/13/2016 |
Working with Steve on exporting current sub inventory levels. this is on the advanced parts search page. We also talked a lot about outside parties, investors, and lines that have been drawn in the sand. Trying to figure out what way to go and how to push things going forward. We keep going back to the railroad analogy. Basically, adilas wants to be the train and the train tracks. All of the other pieces are up for grabs. Business are either - fixing it, selling it, or closing it - that's what businesses do. So, in short, we fix it, sell it, or close it. We need to stick to our model, even if it is a slow mover. It has great potential. |
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Shop 1102 | Adilas World/ Adilas for Business | 4/13/2016 | Working with Nick on cleaning up code for the adilas market. He is working on the upload media/content section from within the marketplace. Pretty cool. This content helps build out the different portfolios. | |||
Shop 1219 | Companion Software Package | 4/13/2016 |
What if we switched our focus just a little bit and said that adilas is a great companion software package to any business. We'd love to say we are the best standalone piece, but technically, we are a great companion piece. Here is the cool thing, we are that right now. We don't have to build anything new or even tweak or change anything. Idea came from Russell Moore. |
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Shop 3318 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/13/2016 |
-Compare software package -Create something that fits with something else without rebuilding it. -Build on to it -Flexible to push and pull data -Bridge or connection -Instead of competing head to toe . . . we just help and enhance features and tools -Think application flex grid level - interconnect what ever you need to - natively -Working together vs. compeeting - abundant model - add to what is already there |
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Shop 1109 | Icons | 4/13/2016 | Working on signing off on code for a custom project for Bryan. Basically it is a new patient (customer/client) sign-up form. It asks medical information and then records that information in the system. A bigger frontend page with custom wire job as the backend. Pretty cool! | |||
Shop 712 | Calvin Chipman | 4/13/2016 | ||||
Shop 908 | Adilas world projects | 4/13/2016 |
Working with Russell on his new ecommerce skin. We pulled in some new links, formatted descriptions, added new data, and worked more on settings. Russell wants to add new settings for email stuff, display modes (some of his new or modern display modes), shipping rules (matrix of levels, caps, and roll-overs to free shipping). We also talked about new settings for other pieces that were cool - but I forgot what they were. I'll try to record them when I hear them again. |
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Shop 1204 | Hypur - Team Meeting | 4/13/2016 |
Team meeting for the Hypur project. We will go over the projects and make the assignments. Looking for the following attendees: Dave Forbis, Brandon Moore, Shawn Curtis, Bryan Dayton, Alan Williams, Nick Vaughn, and Will Hudson. Notes: Dave ran the meeting. He had a bunch of topics on the whiteboard (wall). He had a small agenda, the projects were listed out, a few small details per project, a light time budget, and assignments. Dave did an awesome job. I loved it. Shawn did quite a bit of talking and did great in the role of lead developer. All of the guys seemed to be excited and the meeting went very well. I did some light training on team building and helped wrap things up and make connections. My favorite part of the meeting was watching both Dave and Shawn run with things. They did great. I'm really excited to see how this project turns out. This is a step into a bigger playing field. Good stuff. |
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Shop 1222 | Prep work for the quote/project funnel | 4/13/2016 | Spent some time working on the prep stuff for a new starting spot for custom code jobs. We are going to call it our quote/project funnel project. I was getting assets ready, making lists, doing research, and putting a small email together for the Tew brothers (William and Hyrum). They are Adam Tew's brothers. Adam did quite a bit of work for us the first six months of 2015. Anyways, they will be helping with the small funnel and mini project. Good stuff. | |||
Shop 1229 | Reviewing help files | 4/14/2016 | Reviewing help files for the adilas formula and 3D world building. | |||
Shop 884 | Sub Inventory | 4/14/2016 | ||||
Shop 1220 | Hypur tech notes with Shawn | 4/14/2016 | Working with Shawn on the tech notes for the Hypur Phase 2 projects. Tried to go into better detail for project A - new Hypur payment solution. Recording notes and brainstorming ideas on the project documents. | |||
Shop 1110 | Icons | 4/14/2016 | Longer session with Bryan. We did code sign-off on multiple projects. Went in pretty deep on the ecommerce online bill pay portal. | |||
Shop 3319 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/14/2016 |
-add a note to the data assembly live help file about - adilas being a great compainion software package for any business. Russell Moore. help id = 496 -Fix the double, singe quotes in the help files . . . this comes from the transferring full data between diffrent systems. |
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Shop 713 | Calvin Chipman | 4/14/2016 | ||||
Shop 1137 | Alan Time | 4/14/2016 | Sub Assignments | |||
Shop 1230 | Helping other | 4/14/2016 | Helping other developers and answering different questions. | |||
Shop 1221 | Quotes with Dave | 4/14/2016 |
Worked with Dave and Russell on quotes. We ended up taking a little side trip into sub inventory, ecommerce, smart group buttons (rules and assignments) and conversions. We spent quite a bit of time in the conversion land, talking about option and challenges. We also talked about using flex grid to bridge different items together. At the end, Dave and I talked about how we wanted to start our own quoting projects. |
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Shop 987 | Brandon out of the office all day | 4/15/2016 | Worked from home. | |||
Shop 1226 | Working with Shawn on the Hypur Project | 4/15/2016 |
Shawn came over to my house to work on the Hypur project. We worked upstairs in the front room (better natural light). We used a small whiteboard and pen and paper to take notes and do some planning. See photo gallery for some of the notes. Page 1 - We worked on a small flow chart of when and how the Hypur API socket connection would work and how they play into existing flow and processes. Page 2 - We talked a lot about options for locking down full invoices. We thought that it would be cool to add a couple new columns such as is_locked (1 or a 0) and locked_reason (why it is locked - Hypur, 3rd Party, Audit, Admin lock, ice-down date, etc.) - Shawn also had the idea to put an extra where clause on the updates that only allowed updates on non locked items. That would create a great fall back on the root or update level. - The other main topic was flagging and tagging data. The more we look at things, the more we are seeing more needs to be able to flag and tag items within the system. We need easy ways to flag things and then easy ways to search and pull reports based off of the flags. Page 3 - This page of notes dealt more with a task queue of sorts. We need a queue for the Hypur project but we could also use a queue for other internal adilas projects such as watchers, feeders, auto summing, stats, and gathering and collecting other information. We thought that it could be really cool if we had a web interface (load and unload the queue) and then have a full on software backend that could run longer or more processing intense pieces. Kind of a hybrid of sorts. See scan for some database ideas for the queue table. - Quote from Shawn - "Please help us as we are working to help other people have work to do." - a line from Shawn's lunch prayer. I liked it. - Part of the page has some notes about ways to organize and break things into smaller pieces. Think of Legos and building blocks. For example: basic pages (shells), black box access points for custom code, themes, skins, smaller component parts, world building levels, permissions (different levels), settings (different levels), cfc database and logic libraries, special page functions and player functions, watchers and feeders, documentation (help files or videos), histories and logs, real in-line database extensions, flags, tags, and subs. Also different data views and report types (calendar, time slot, horizontal, grouped, details, advanced - build & save your own reports), options for saving and exporting any data from any page. Page 4 - More looking into special flags and tags. Added some notes about special cases such as returns, vendor credits, customer credits, back orders, and general PO ordering processes. - We also talked about the task queue and being able to drill-down and see what is going on and what is queued up. We talked about a one-to-many between the queue and the action logs. We listed out a few of the possible queue action statuses - See scan for more info. Page 5 - Shawn and I took some time to talk about our process and how we want to treat and track our projects. Lots of funnels and sub funnels. There is a lot going on and lots of things to make sure and check. See the attached scan for a small visual of the brainstorming session. |
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Shop 3320 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/15/2016 | -Invoice lock at the invoice level - this could work for po's, E/r's and Dep's as well - think ice - down lock or ice-down date | |||
Shop 1227 | Phone call with Steve | 4/16/2016 | On a phone call with Steve. We did a little bit on GoToMeeting and then finished up on the phone. We talked about investments, funds, and outside parties. We also talked about current projects and what they bring to the table. We spent some time talking about the Hypur project - phase 2 stuff. We spent over an hour looking for a possible problem with inventory tracking. It ended up being a PO that had a received date set into the future. We really could have used a known issues report. Anyways, a good session. | |||
Shop 1228 | Checking into Agile development cycles | 4/16/2016 |
Shawn sent me a link to watch on YouTube. It shows the agile development process in a nutshell. Good video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE |
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Shop 1231 | Documenting things for the Hypur project | 4/18/2016 | Up early working on the Hypur documentation. I added some notes to previous elements of time that were dealing with brainstorming and such. Typed up some of the notes from a meeting with Shawn. Made two new diagrams using pen and paper to help show flow for the Hypur projects. Posted the new images on element of time id # 1133. Started working on the tech notes for project B - invoice lockdown project. | |||
Shop 1225 | Meeting with Shawn About Hypur Projects | 4/18/2016 | Picked up Shawn for work. We started working on the Hypur stuff but both of us were too tired. We weren't being productive so we decided to bag it and hit it later. | |||
Shop 891 | Adilas | 4/18/2016 | I called Steve and canceled the appointment. I was super tired and ended up sleeping in my vehicle out in the parking lot. Crazy morning! | |||
Shop 1103 | Working on Hypur stuff for the invoice lockdown project | 4/18/2016 | I was supposed to be working with Nick but ended up doing some documentation on the Hypur project for Will. He is doing some stuff on the invoice lockdown project. That was very nice of Nick to give me some time to keep pushing on that. | |||
Shop 1111 | Bryan | 4/18/2016 | Looked up a small bug in the adilas API socket connections. We had a typo in the sample code. The documentation was correct, but the sample was wrong. We then started into the ecommerce bill pay code sign-off stuff. We'll finish more of that later today. | |||
Shop 3323 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/18/2016 | -Phone messages ( Cell ) from Emerald Fields. They can't do rounding error stuff on PO's. Need to check files on the data 5 server. | |||
Shop 714 | Calvin Chipman | 4/18/2016 | One the phone with Calvin and B. Dayton. They finally got a working model for some code to connect to the Midax piece. We approved Calvin to do 5-10 more hours of work to get things going. | |||
Shop 1233 | Working with Nick on his part of the Hypur project | 4/18/2016 | Working with Nick on project C of the Hypur project. This is for updating things after the fact. We went through some things and documented things on the fly. It was kinda rough but we got some light direction and made a number of notes that should help with the project. Good session. | |||
Shop 911 | Adilas world projects | 4/18/2016 | Meeting with Russell about potential investors and how to play the game. We talked some rough numbers and plans. We then worked on his ecommerce skin. It is coming along very well. | |||
Shop 1232 | Bryan | 4/18/2016 | Email to Hypur asking some questions. Also working with Bryan on some of his other projects. | |||
Shop 1249 | Working on documenting the task queue | 4/19/2016 | Working on the Hypur Projects. Worked this morning on the Project D - Task Queue documentation. Added it to elements of time # 1133 (media/content). Alan Williams is doing the task queue. The documentation hopefully will help him get the direction and ideas that he is looking for. Good stuff. | |||
Shop 892 | Adilas | 4/19/2016 | ||||
Shop 1168 | Quoting | 4/19/2016 | Got with Dave and started cleaning up some of the older quotes and such. We recorded a number of internal pieces that were needed and added a number of new elements of time. Starting to add more notes and direction on the quotes and projects. That will really help. | |||
Shop 1112 | Bryan | 4/19/2016 | Working with Bryan on his projects. We came up with a couple new payment flow options for the Hypur payment project. We had fun and drew things out on paper and then even pretended to act it out. That really helped with the flow process. Good stuff. | |||
Shop 1256 | Adilas Standards | 4/19/2016 |
Shawn and I were starting to talk about some adilas standards. Here is a small list of some basic topics: - Comments & Documentation - Naming Conventions - Validation - Funnel Processes - Sub Funnels - API Socket Connections - Whitespace & Spacing - Layout - CFC's & Database Connections - Params & Defaults - Testing & Debugging - Code Sign-Off - Deployment & FTP - Version Control - Git/Bitbucket - CSS & Display - Scripting & Other Languages - javascript, ajax, jquery, cfscript, etc. - Reusability - Code Once, Use Many - Cause & Effects - How far does this reach? - Budgeting - Quoting - Project Management - Logging Time - Clean-Up & Finishing - Invoicing & Invoice Payments - Our Clients - Billing For Hours, Projects, & Getting Paid - Planning & Prep - Communication Levels - Return & Report - User Interface & User Flow - GUI - Future Proofing - Vision - Custom - Logging Customer/Client Notes |
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Shop 715 | Calvin Chipman | 4/19/2016 | Quick phone call with Calvin and B. Dayton. Calvin reported that his TCP/IP integration project may be tougher than originally thought. We then talked about ColdFusion extensions and 3rd party tools. | |||
Shop 1138 | Alan Time | 4/19/2016 | Sub Assignments | |||
Shop 1255 | Meeting with Shawn on the Hypur project | 4/19/2016 | Working with Shawn on the Hypur project. We were going over the need to help out with returns, refunds, and other branching (chicken foot) type concepts. It is crazy how quickly some of the different things branch and have multiple different routes. We ended up talking about funds, pain, and stress levels. I was struggling and having a problem. I think I'm kinda getting burned out. I'm ok, but definitely tired. Every piece of the puzzle just keeps getting deeper and deeper. It takes a lot of energy to keep everything going. | |||
Shop 1254 | PDF- CannaPrint: ADI-124 | 4/19/2016 | Looking at some custom PDF's that Bryan has been working on. We signed off on 4 different PDF's for a single company. The company has like 8 custom PDF's on invoices, quotes, and PO's. Bryan is on all of those projects. | |||
Shop 1025 | Brandon - Working on own projects | 4/20/2016 | Emails and tech support stuff. | |||
Shop 1113 | Bryan | 4/20/2016 | ||||
Shop 3324 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/20/2016 |
-Errors - emerald fields - PO updates and update inventory -Normal PO updates -Payroll Error -Check and upload code for Full Circle -record invoices from shop guys |
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Shop 716 | Calvin Chipman | 4/20/2016 | ||||
Shop 913 | Adilas world projects | 4/20/2016 |
Meeting with Russell and Steve. Russell and I met and talked about models and some new options. We then called Steve and talked about possible funding options and how best to proceed. I really enjoyed seeing a new model that Russell was working on. It has a easy entry, easy exit type feel, but it still has structure and bounds. Pretty cool idea. |
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Shop 1261 | 4/20/2016 | Signed off on code with Bryan on his set of custom PDF's. We made a couple of changes but most of it was pretty tight. Good stuff. | ||||
Shop 893 | adilas | 4/21/2016 |
On a phone call with Steve. The whole thing was dealing with funds, direction, where things are working, where things are breaking, and where things are potentially fracturing but still working. A lot of our time was spent talking about people and expectations. We talked about the independent model, employee models, hybrid models, etc. We are trying to figure out the balance between what we need and want and what we have. Good conversations. We talked a ton about how some of the custom projects help us fund the future growth of the company. At the same time, they pull us off of the main core projects and prevent maintenance and normal processing. Not enough resources to go around. Everybody gets spread thin. There are pros and cons on both sides of that fence. We'll keep going and see how it works out. We are kinda experimenting right now. We've got a ton of things lightly in place, we just need to let things mature and stabilize (normalizing process). Basically, just keep going and make small correcting strokes as we go. That felt good to feel like we are at least going on the right path. Here are some other small notes that I took from the conversation: - Let the system be the bad guy. - Let it (the system) say yes or no based on rules and expectations. We have done this before and it was a huge area that helped us out (way back to original projects and timelines). This takes defining the playing field, setting rules, figuring out who and what, and then enforcing those rules. See this PDF for some of the original start-up notes. https://data0.adilas.biz/adilas_history_bio.pdf |
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Shop 1223 | Doctor's appointment with Heather | 4/21/2016 | ||||
Shop 3325 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/21/2016 |
-Sometimes being forced to learn things help you keep the tool box fresh -Continuing education -Weekly teem meetings or daily stand-ups -Help build a trust so that you don't have to hold on to that meeting with Shawn -In house training -Certification levels and qualification levels -Hour long training -Pull back and write things down - prioritize -Teach and train on the ideal -Teach them correct principles and let them govern them selves - Let the guys teach the guys -Train and make it madiery -Trust -Open entry, open exit,structured process -Daily meeting with leads -Plan before you code - get sigh-off on your plan -Teach the why, try to understand the why |
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Shop 4947 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/21/2016 |
-Tighten down the default expense types per employee. Causing problems if not numeric id numbers. -Cross corp problems with default expanse types for payees. -More Standards -Internal changes - Monies between parties -Database changes -script all changes -search all inserts -search all updates -Full Site Changes -main root -top_secret -web/API -shop -custom -public -ecta. |
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Shop 4956 | Virtual Post-It Note | 4/21/2016 |
-Matching perjections with the flow of assets. -Readjust as needed. -Create a learning and experimental culture. -Learning for transfer - has it been done before, go find it and figure it out. -Research, prep, and learning. -Project management. -Let it go. |
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Shop 717 | Calvin Chipman | 4/21/2016 | ||||
Shop 1263 | Meeting with Shawn | 4/21/2016 |
Meeting with Shawn. We walked across the street to McDonalds and ate a burger and talked out on their outdoor patio area. I took a number of pages of notes on small post-its. The subject was the shop and how we could help and restructure things to make it smoother. Here are some of the highlights from the notes: Fill this in... |
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Shop 1139 | Alan Time | 4/21/2016 | Sub Assignments | |||
Shop 798 | Analytics | 4/21/2016 | ||||
Shop 1114 | Bryan | 4/21/2016 | Helping Bryan with projects and questions. We had to postpone due to a meeting with Shawn. | |||
Shop 1262 | Trust Jane Tax Issue | 4/21/2016 | GoToMeeting session with Nick. We went over some stuff on the Hypur projects and how his stuff may need to be tied to the other projects. Lots of interconnected pieces. We also briefly talked about other tax questions. Mostly we setup an appointment for Friday afternoon, there at the shop. | |||
Shop 988 | Brandon out of the office all day | 4/22/2016 | Went in and had a full day. See other entries for more details. | |||
Shop 1273 | Consulting Meeting With Pepperidge Farm | 4/22/2016 |
Had a consulting and brainstorming meeting with Pepperidge Farm. My dad setup the meeting. He was there and so was a lady by the name of Melissa Vanover from Pepperidge. Melissa is the training coordinator for the new J. Victor Mahoney Training Center located at the Richmond, UT, Pepperidge Farm location. We spent the entire session doing brainstorming and whiteboarding. The subject was a LMS (learning management system) type flow and process. As we would fill up the board with notes, drawings, and concepts my dad would take pictures for the record. We had a great session and covered a number of topics. I really enjoyed helping to facilitate the session and got to help provide some direction. We went for hours and all parties were engaged. That was fun. We even got Melissa up at the board to help with the brainstorming session. Good stuff. |
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Shop 1274 | Shop work | 4/22/2016 | Email, clean-up, and helping developers. Did some prep for a conference call. | |||
Shop 1279 | The big three | 4/22/2016 |
I saw some notes on the whiteboard from a meeting between Chris Johnnie and Dave Forbis. Just wanted to record this. The Big Three - World Building - Data Storytelling or Digital Storytelling - Assembly Line For Data The process was listed as: 1. Start and build on common ground >> 1.1. Business companion software package for any business >> 1.2. See what they like and what they need 2. Talk about needs and pain areas >> 2.1. Most people love to tell you the good, the bad, and ugly. 3. Fill the gaps and ease the pain with the existing tools and features. >> 3.1. Think about the tools as companion tools for whatever already exists. Keep playing on common ground and possibly introduce new options. 4. Work towards the big three >> 4.1. World Building >> 4.2. Digital Storytelling >> 4.3. Assembly Line For Data Long story made short, we are headed toward the big three. However, sometimes the market and/or world may not be ready for that as an in your face marketing tool. The goal here was to start off really basic and then build on common beliefs and core principles. Then when ready start introducing more advanced topics such as world building, digital storytelling, or data assembly line concepts. Great ideas and flow. |
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Shop 1275 | Meeting with Cory Warden about a soil testing company | 4/22/2016 |
Had a GoToMeeting session with Cory Warden, adilas rep and consultant from Pagosa Springs, CO. Dave Forbis and I were on the call with Cory. The subject was a company that is trying to use adilas to track different soil testing outcomes and results. We did some light brainstorming and built a small outline from our conversation. See attached for the document. Lots of sub locations and sub phases. We will most likely be leaning towards elements of time and sub functions of time to get the tracking in place. On 5/10/16 - See elements of time # 1319 for more project management stuff for this project. |
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Shop 1276 | Emails | 4/22/2016 | Emails and helping the guys at the shop. Shawn gave me a quick review of the Hypur project and where things are at. He is doing a great job on being the Lead on this project. | |||
Shop 1277 | Meeting with Nick - Tax Calculations | 4/22/2016 |
Working with Nick on how sales tax is calculated inside of adilas. We spent quite a bit of time prepping and even showing different tables and backend database stuff. We used a whiteboard and did a number of different scenarios. We got pretty deep into the subject. We talked about generic calcs, per line item calcs, and what we called special or back calcs (with tax included, discounts, backing into a set total, etc.). Good session and it seemed like Nick was really able to catch on and understand what was going on. |
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Shop 1278 | Bryan - Cart Checkout Logic | 4/22/2016 | Helping Bryan with some cart checkout logic. Lots of conditional page flipping and rerouting. Bryan has two projects that will be dealing with the cart checkout process and using alternate payment types (Midax/Expo and Hypur). Both are preloaded wallet type solutions. | |||
Shop 1267 | Clean-up on the to do list | 4/23/2016 |
Emails, recording expenses, tech support, and going through different to do list stuff. On a phone call with Steve going over a possible restructure of debt and options. We talked for about an hour on the options, direction, and how a restructure could really be beneficial to all parties involved. Started filling out a loan application from a company called Smart Biz SBA Loans (www.smartbizloans.com). On the phone and filling out a bunch of different information. |
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Shop 1268 | Filling in loan information | 4/23/2016 | Online filling in loan application stuff. Asking for a number of different pieces of information and data. | |||
Shop 1269 | Recording notes and doing clean-up | 4/23/2016 | Recording notes from the past couple of days. Transferring notes from post-its to elements of time inside the shop. | |||
Shop 1266 | Meeting with Shawn on the Hypur Projects | 4/25/2016 | Picked up Shawn for work. We chatted about the Hypur project and how to get things going. I then spent some time doing emails and documenting some new projects that are coming in. | |||
Shop 895 | adilas | 4/25/2016 | More email and project documentation stuff. Light tech support. Spent the rest of the time doing project management and recording notes inside the shop area. | |||
Shop 1115 | Bryan | 4/25/2016 | Working with Bryan on the cart checkout logic. We drew maps, ran scenarios, and did a bunch of mapping stuff. Pretty in-depth conversations and research into the sub pages (guts) of the checkout logic. Good session. | |||
Shop 720 | Calvin Chipman | 4/25/2016 | Quick phone call to talk about the SQL editor tool. We went over a couple feature requests for the next level. | |||
Shop 1264 | High Mile Merchant Questions | 4/25/2016 | ||||
Shop 916 | Adilas world projects | 4/25/2016 | Working with Bryan on cart checkout logic. Also met with Shawn to go over progress on the Hypur project. Shawn was constructing an email update to Ignacio at Hypur. Both Russell and Dave Forbis were on a big conference call with some potential investors. Dave was doing the demo and answering some general questions. Then Russell jumped in and did some demos and took over the last half of the meeting. I spent my time floating between the different parties. Fun stuff. | |||
Shop 827 | Clean-up | 4/25/2016 | Working on cleaning up elements of time and different shop pieces - notes and documentation. | |||
Shop 896 | adilas | 4/26/2016 | Phone call with Steve on the way to work today. Fairly quick call and talked about a couple of small items. | |||
Shop 1169 | Quoting | 4/26/2016 | Working with Dave to get some quotes done. We did a couple dealing with due dates for invoices and due dates for PO's. We also did one for some custom PDF's and then using that data to populate an invoice. Good session. We also talked about flow and processes. We did a light review of the finances on the Hypur job. | |||
Shop 1116 | Russell | 4/26/2016 | Working with Russell on his ecommerce skins. We changed some page flow and added in a success and thank you for shopping message. This page then links out to the person's account page, the new invoice, or to continue shopping. We then worked on the full page of ecommerce settings validating things and working on the action page. Russell and I also took a small walk and chatted about funding and how we wanted to play the game. Good stuff. | |||
Shop 721 | Calvin Chipman | 4/26/2016 | Did a session with Calvin. We went over some new changes for his SQL editor. We are looking to add a standard where clause as well as an order by primary id option. We also talked about some new export options. Calvin is doing great and has tons of talent. | |||
Shop 1140 | Working on a loan document | 4/26/2016 | Working on a loan document for Steve and I. going over first quarter P&L, bank statements, and debt schedules. | |||
Shop 799 | Analytics | 4/26/2016 | ||||
Shop 1284 | Hypur | 4/26/2016 | Working with Bryan on making the API calls to Hypur. We are using a REST web service call. Back and forth with a tech from Hypur and then testing and tweaking code on our side. Making some progress. Bryan and I also talked deeper about flow and requirements. We see this new payment type option something that will keep coming up in the future. Making some progress. | |||
Shop 1216 | Hypur Project - Team Meeting | 4/26/2016 |
Team Meeting for the Hypur Projects. Looking for Will, Bryan, Shawn, Nick, and Alan. Notes: Shawn ran the meeting. We had all of the guys here at the shop. Shawn covered the whole scope or overview and how the projects relate to one another. We got reports from the guys and where they are at and what is needed. We talked about some concerns and got some stuff aired out. Great meeting and most of the guys seem happy and on task. I'm excited to see how this process will work and what we can do again and what needs to change for next time. Great leaning stuff for all parties. |
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Shop 1026 | Brandon - Working on own projects | 4/27/2016 | Working from home. Emails, writing checks, and light tech support. | |||
Shop 1117 | Bryan | 4/27/2016 | Light help with Bryan's projects. Shawn was helping both Bryan and Nick on and off all day. That is really helping me spend my time in other places. I'm very grateful for Shawn's help in those areas. | |||
Shop 722 | Calvin Chipman | 4/27/2016 | Quick phone call to touch base. Maybe 5 minutes. | |||
Shop 1265 | Code Sign Off | 4/27/2016 | Signed off with Will on a number of projects. We went through 4 pull requests on bit bucket. A couple custom carts, a couple 3D graphs, and one that used both Ajax and JQuery to check barcodes and items in the cart. Garrett is helping Will after hours. Together, the two are pumping through some cool projects. Will interfaces with the adilas Team and then Will interfaces directly with Garrett. Interesting little model. | |||
Shop 918 | Adilas world projects | 4/27/2016 | Working with Russell on gathering and combining all of the ecommerce corp-wide settings into one page. We then did a small video of the entire process. We went from planning, to database stuff, to adding, to updating, to using, to showing on the ecommerce site. Great little session. The video was about 30 minutes long to go through the whole process. Kinda fun. | |||
Shop 828 | Analytics | 4/27/2016 | ||||
Shop 897 | adilas | 4/28/2016 | On a phone call and GoToMeeting with Steve. We finished up the export to Excel for sub inventory (advanced parts search page). Once I got done, I posted the file to all servers and did some light testing. I also spent quite a bit of time with the guys here in the shop going over cfhttp (backdoor web calls) tags and how we connect to other API sockets out on the web. The guys are all working on some of the Hypur connections. | |||
Shop 1118 | Bryan | 4/28/2016 | Working with Bryan on Hypur API calls, checkout flow, and code/page clean-up. On the phone with Louis from Hypur asking about different questions, requests, error codes, ect. We are making progress and things are getting tighter and tighter. | |||
Shop 723 | Calvin Chipman | 4/28/2016 | ||||
Shop 1141 | Alan Time | 4/28/2016 | Working with Alan going over his task queue. We added a new admin permission, new help files, and went over his code and made a couple small changes. Great progress and it is looking good. | |||
Shop 800 | Quotes with Dave and Shannon | 4/28/2016 | On a GoToMeeting session with Shannon and Dave going over quotes and processes. We quoted a couple of projects and tried to get Shannon oriented to the flow and what is going on. She will do great on helping us with project management stuff. | |||
Shop 989 | Brandon out of the office all day | 4/29/2016 | ||||
Shop 1292 | Signing off on Hypur projects | 4/29/2016 |
Full day of Hypur code sign-off. I met with Bryan for about 4.5 hours. We were working on the new Hypur payment solution project. Lots of new flow to handle a 3rd party payment solution. We got mostly done with Bryan's code. We had a page or two left to check. I then met with Alan for about 3 hours. We were working on the task queue project for Hypur. We got all of Alan's code checked off and merged into the master branch. We still have to integrate with the API socket calls, but the main task queue has been created and pushed live. I then met with Shawn for a couple of hours. We were talking about lessons learned and progress being made. We also talked about some hybrid shop options and how to best motivate the different developers and their different styles. Kinda some general HR (human resources) stuff. |
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Shop 1293 | Meeting with Nick | 4/30/2016 | Nick came over to my house. We worked on signing off on code that Will had completed for the Hypur projects. His code was dealing with an invoice lock-down of sorts. Going over Will's code and talking through it with Nick. Details and more details. Pretty deep logic. We had to interweave voids, locks, permissions, modes, and settings together. | |||
Shop 1296 | More Hypur sign-off | 4/30/2016 |
Working on more Hypur sign-off stuff. On a GoToMeeting session with Shawn. Gave him a couple files to tweak while I was looking at some other emails and files from Bryan. As a fun note, we went through a page and made a list of things that needed to be changed and then I passed the file to him to work on. Good stuff. |
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Shop 1297 | More work on the Hypur project | 4/30/2016 | Worked on checking out code on the Hypur payment solution - Bryan's project. I pulled code, did some research, and made a few changes. I changed how the API calls were being made and got a few good tests to run through successfully. That was nice and a real breakthrough. Merged files into the master branch and then pushed them to all servers. | |||