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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 5/1/2010 to 5/31/2010 - (32)
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AU 116 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/1/2010 |
• 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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AU 2162 |
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Note | 5/1/2010 |
- Blank - Stock - Loc - Desc - Date in - Basis - Mark-ups - Price - Profit - Margin - Price type - Links |
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AU 117 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/3/2010 |
• Working on ideas for the mini receipt. • On the phone with Steve going over change due and recording details for invoices and cash registers. • Finished up the mini invoice (customer receipt) and posted files online. • Help files and phone calls. • Added an icon to the adilas.biz flyers page with general verbiage. • Went in to a company to work with a customer there. We did our first mini session on doing a physical inventory. I brought a barcode reader and they were having fun. 10 miles. |
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AU 118 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/4/2010 |
• Brainstorming on a to do list. • Added the last four of the cc to the payment notes. • Added two new links to the printer friendly invoice. • Posted files online. • Fixing a small bug on the add item to cart page for unlimited items. • New logo for a company. • Started working on the barcode generator. • Went in to town. Both and associate and myself worked with customers at a company in town. We took turns counting inventory and entering parts. 10 miles. |
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AU 119 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/5/2010 |
• Working on the barcode generator. • On the phone with a customer. • New logo for a company. |
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AU 141 |
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Daily Ideas | 5/5/2010 |
-Make unlimited global – able to add without PO. To Do List as of 5/4/10 - Hide/show internet prices for stock/units and parts - Add one new field to the invoice payments table - Update all past invoice payments with new field; make-change-amount - Also update receivables for cash over payments - Add “all” as a keyword – also add an everything link to main homepages: all e/r’s, all PO’s, all inv, all quotes, all deps. - Corp-wide settings for customer, parts, loc’s, salespersons, etc. - Help file link – in page flow - Barcode generator - Add the words “card # 4486 dynamic” to the Approved CC transactions. - Grouped Best Seller reports – customer, customer type, part category, part number, vendor, etc. - Mini P&L balance sheet calc report - Daily close out reports, invoices and payments, change paid out, different invoice types, tie to deposits - Grouped – this may also need to include any cash expenses or payouts (e/r side) - PDF for a company - Add verbiage and info to history home page - Add all un-assign (black hole) values to history homepage - Add the age and how the invoice was paid on the statement - Check the corp key id’s for ASP-0057 A-0057 on view web inventory - This certain corp may not be the best demo corp - Update cart shopping cart help file for barcode readers - Customer web pages – options for contact page - Customer web pages – options for return link - Customer web pages – dynamically show counters or show/hide sub inventory types and part categories if not in use - Rework the merchant processing on the adilas site - Make unlimited parts able to add to any loc without a PO |
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AU 120 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/6/2010 |
• Quick color and logo changes for a company. Posted files online. Invoiced on 5/20/10. • Working on the barcode generator. • Spent some time concept brainstorming on paper and then went in to Flash. |
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AU 2163 |
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Brainstorming Drawing Barcodes 128-B in Flash | 5/6/2010 |
Drawing barcodes 128-B in Flash: 1. We need to be able to handle up to 25 characters 2. Need to be able to handle dynamic content 3. Printable from the web to specific sizes and specs 4. Variable length and sizes of output 5. Needs to be readable and correct for 128-B standards Known: - 128 characters, each has 11 positions, sizes and spaces are 1,2,3,4, I have a list of black/white (bars & spaces) codes in “bbwwbbwbbbw” format for each character. - 128-B requires a start character, the value to encode, a check digit, and a stop character. The start and stop characters are standard but the check digit is a variable and will be one of the 128 characters. - The system needs to be able to calculate and draw (render) on the fly. - Most labels will be printed out using thermal transfer to sticker or label paper. - With the 11 positions… I’m assuming that each character only gets 11 and the next one will start on 12 as the first new character. I will need to verify this. - The check digit uses a special formula and then a special division valve. The actual results are not in the main division but in the remainder (left over value). This value then gets converted into a barcode symbol as well. - Flash is capable of drawing bars to exact specs. A loop that gets proper specs could be used to create content on the fly. Flash is also capable of duplicating a master line or bar on the fly. Positioning and printing are both very precise within flash. Technical Ideas: - Because each character has a specific pattern. It would be ideal to get the value to decode, split it into an array with each letter or character in each index, do the math calc to figure the check digit and then process the output with correct instructions and spacing. - Sketches, variables, etc. – See scan in photo gallery - The above example uses a factor of 1. What if I need to shorten things up and used a factor or 0.5, 0.25, 0.01 (etc.). - Working with zero kind of messes things up for basic math. - Here is how the start & end value can be figured: - You need: o See scan in photo gallery o Start with these values already set o To get to the next – do this - Say you have an array with the following values. o See scan in photo gallery - Two dimensional array, index 0=value, index 1=numeric look-up value o See scan in photo gallery - You would also need a look-up array that had instructions or code to make instructions. o See scan in photo gallery - Instructions would need to be: o Start x card = _________ o Bar length = __________ o Start x card = _________ o Bar length = __________ o Start x card = _________ o Bar length = __________ |
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AU 121 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/7/2010 |
• On the phone with a company. We went over departments, tax settings, time clocks, admin time clocks, payroll, banks and expense types. • Working on the barcode generator. |
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AU 122 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/8/2010 | • Working on the barcode generator. Actually printed out the first couple 128-B barcodes that are drawn and created on the fly. | |
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AU 123 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/10/2010 |
• Finished up the first round of the Flash barcode generator. • Started working on the application tie-in and ColdFusion part (wrapper) of the widget. • Went in to town and worked with a customer on getting things setup for their company. I did some hardware setup and testing. They got all of their new hardware. 10 miles. |
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AU 124 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/11/2010 |
• First round of the web mock-up for a company’s website. • Working on the barcode generator in ColdFusion. • Worked on the check digit calc for standard UPC barcodes. • Went in to a company, an associate and I entered parts and items for the vendor. Used a catalog price sheet to enter items. 10 miles. |
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AU 125 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/12/2010 |
• Working on the actual company’s website. Took graphics and converted them into html (web pages). Posted files online through GoDaddy. Added a PayPal link and button to the site. • Went in to a company and worked on inventory and data entry. 10 miles. |
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AU 126 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/13/2010 |
• Small tweaks to the company’s site and products pages. Posted files online. Invoiced on 5/20/10. • New logo for a company. Couldn’t make it fit in a square. • Went in to town to work with the folks and a company there. Setup the main front computer. Talked with them about the flex grid and some theory about what it does and how it works. Did some training on the new front computer, we went over invoices and quotes a bit. 10 miles. • Worked on the ColdFusion side of the barcode generator. • Went in to town to the company again to do a session there. I worked on the barcode generator and an associate entered parts. 10 miles. |
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AU 127 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/14/2010 |
• Went into a company and worked on the barcode generator. Helped answer questions. 10 miles. • Working on the barcode generator help files. |
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AU 128 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/15/2010 |
• Working on the barcode generator. Added a new label size (1”x2”). • Updated help files and started working on the free barcode generator file. • On the phone with Steve for a bit going over the barcode generator and plans for the future. • Posted the free barcode generator online. • Added a bunch of new logos and colors for Steve. • New logos for multiple companies. |
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AU 142 |
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Daily Ideas | 5/15/2010 |
-Discounts on retail carts and sales. -On PO’s – maybe remove the actual part number from the mix. It used to be a key field but now it can get changed very easily. Maybe think about this. |
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AU 129 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/17/2010 |
• Went in to a company and worked with some associates on doing physical inventory. Printing barcode labels and working on their floor stand. Two of us were on one computer and the other was printing barcodes from the other computer, good flow. 10 miles. • Worked on a company’s digital signatures report. Posted files online. Invoiced on 5/20/10. |
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AU 130 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/18/2010 |
• Went in to a company and worked with some of their associates. We spent a couple of hours working on invoices, credits, returns and discounts. We worked on barcodes and physical inventory stuff. Great training day. 10 miles. • Small adilas fixes and tweaks. • Barcode generator link on the add/edit and parts page. • Small bug fix on add to cart page. • Worked on the all invoices year-to-date report. • Added a new drill-down link to all invoices for a customer regardless dates. • Posted files online. |
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AU 131 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/19/2010 |
• Went in to a company, did some training. An associate and I wrote a little step-by-step for another associate at the company. One was for PO’s and one for invoices. Small demo for them about expenses and future options for their company and adilas. I also showed them a little bit about files, folders and email attachments. 10 miles. • Working on the re-calc taxes switch for invoices. Posted files online. • Invoicing and doing things for adilas. |
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AU 132 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/20/2010 |
• Logo and colors for a company. Posted files online. • Added a city scape to a company’s animated banner. Added new text and posted files online. Invoiced on 5/20/10. |
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AU 143 |
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Daily Ideas | 5/20/2010 |
-On edit cart and invoice line items, show the location tax rates to help users know the % vs. the $ figures. -If matching barcodes (physical part number barcode and part number search field match exactly), assume that a barcode search exists. If the user has an open cart, auto add a quantity of one to it and add it to the cart. |
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AU 133 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/21/2010 |
• Brainstorming on what’s next for adilas. • Working on a mini financial flow calculator. |
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AU 134 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/22/2010 |
• Adilas emails. • Checking on payroll stuff and new logo for a customer. • Working on the financial flow calculator and adilas business cards for associates. |
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AU 135 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/24/2010 | • New logo for a company. | |
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AU 136 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/26/2010 | • Working on the financial flow worksheet. | |
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AU 144 |
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Daily Ideas | 5/26/2010 | -Side note: Went on a hike in Hailey, ID and was thinking about how adilas could be compared to a hiking trail. It takes lots of work but makes it easier and enjoyable for other people. Community project and pioneering for the future. | |
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AU 137 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/27/2010 | • Working on the financial flow worksheet. | |
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AU 138 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/28/2010 |
• On the phone with Steve and other associates and different times. • Worked on the financial flow calculator and posted the files online. • Worked on the financial flow help file. |
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AU 145 |
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Daily Ideas | 5/28/2010 |
More brainstorming for adilas mini P&L/balance sheet flow chart calculator: - See a couple pages back for more info - look around 3/20/ date range. - I want a web app that uses Java Script to do local calcs. - It only uses ColdFusion if converting and saving as a pdf. - Needs to be designed so that it is super simple. - Needs about 5 editable fields per section. All math is automated and done as you leave each field. - Net profit needs to automatically flow over to the B.S. under equity. - Quick calcs on both top and bottom. - Show tie between Net on P&C and Net on B.S. - All math is done with the tab key: once done – post a generic version online for free. The whole goal of this mini app is training and flow. Nothing is recorded in the database. Think quick and temporary. |
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AU 139 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/29/2010 |
• Added the free financial calculator and worksheet to the main website. • Updated some help files and launched the financial flow calculator permission. • Worked on backing out taxes. • On the phone with Steve going over the new financial flow calculator. We also talked quite a bit about education and getting it into the hands of the upcoming generation and accounting teachers. Good direction to go in. • More work on backing out taxes. Added a new tax category called “with Tax Included”. This helps reverse out taxes to sell items at a certain price with tax included. |
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AU 140 |
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Daily Tasks | 5/31/2010 | • Working on the reverse tax calcs. | |