Emails and communicating with the team about Boris (aka the hacker). Trying to get things solved and plans made. Looking into some new Java libraries to help with barcodes and QR codes.

Emails, bitbucket and GitHub stuff. Recording notes from 7/9/24 to 7/12/24.

Meeting with Hamid. He's learning and going through some ColdFuison training stuff. I gave him a small mini project to work on. I'm going to have him work on a small budgeting tool. Really simple. I also sent an email to Calvin requesting a version of his MySQL Editor for Hamid. See attached for some notes on the budget project.

Meeting with Cody over GoToMeeting. He got the rotation done and the transform stuff for the label maker. Just for fun, he was showing me some of the computer graphic level math and game design stuff that is playing into the label maker project. Pretty cool!

Maybe working on saving things next. Sent him the existing database table schemas and we talked about different columns. He would like me to setup a GitHub account so that I could get access to his project and source files. He would also love to get more hours if possible.

Meeting with Shannon. Talking about happenings (catching up on things) and making some plans.

Got a phone call from Wayne. We were talking about what we know dealing with the hack attempts on data 0. One of our plans is going to be moving to a new version of ColdFusion (2023). Trying to close every door possible. Wayne has some outbound logs from the server that we need to review. We may need to get a lawyer involved, if needed. I told Wayne that I would give Steve a call and figure out a plan on that side. We talked about maintenance and how we have to put out fires and grease the squeaky wheels. Some of the other stuff stays undone. There is too much to keep it all up. All part of the game. We also noted that Hostek (the hosting company) is being a little slower on their responses. Looking ahead, we know that we need to fix and work on some labels stuff, need to fix older barcode and QR code libraries, Wayne has a new solution in mind, replace the older BBQ and iText (java libraries). When ready, we will be pulling reports with dates/times, corps, customers that may have been affected by the hack attempt on the data 0 server.

Phone call with Steve. Going over hack attempts and course of action. Steve was telling me about hacks on huge companies like Netflix, Target, Apple, etc - everybody is being compromised. Dealing with credit card transactions, we are heading more and more towards a tokenization approach of data transmissions vs real data being passed back and forth. Steve said that a bank person (person in charge of fraud at a bank he goes to) said that they, the bank, re-issue 90-150 new credit cards a month, due to fraud. This was a small local bank. It's happening all over the place (hack attempts). We will work with Wayne and see what the window of time is that is in question. It's only on data 0. Our plan is to only notify those people/clients that may have been compromised (data stuff). I will get with Shari O. and get her involved to help send a note out. I'm also supposed to get some info from Wayne (tech stuff) about what we know and what that window looks like.

For me - Shannon and I were talking about a book called "Rhinoceros Success" by Scott Alexander. Taking small bits of wisdom from the rhino book - keep charging - damn the torpedoes! As a side note, one of the chapters in the book is called "Damn The Torpedoes" meaning that people are going to be shooting torpedoes at you all the time. Grow some thick skin and keep charging!

Emails and recording notes. Reviewing a video from Cory about some vendor stuff. The items in question were missing some item descriptions (these came from a bulk data import - original data was missing some info). Quick phone call with Cory to go over a small plan. Small phone call with Bryan. He was asking questions about doing a data import for stock/units. We talked about the need to match up makes and models to help with the import. They may end up doing the import manually as they only have about 100 stock/units. Recording notes from the last few days.

Phone calls with Steve and Bryan. Talked with Steve about some manufacturing stuff and new default vendors and default customer settings. We talked about options and ways to help take out steps and automate things. More and more settings. We also talked about other deployments and clients and upcoming projects. Light talks about staff and even a new guy (Cody - developer) and Piper (designer working with Chuck). Trying to make things happen.

Bryan had some questions about more QuickBooks API stuff and other projects that he is working on. He's got a lot of stuff going on as well.

Meeting with Bryan and going over progress on the QuickBooks API stuff. We chatted about a rollout plan and other possible things that might be needed.

Went into town to meet with Mike Guthrie at the bank. We chatted and talked about adilas stuff. He is an entrepreneur and is a partner in a local business that supplies restaurants with food and supplies. We went over his current processes and what they want to do. I explained a little bit of our story and we talked about his processes and current pain points. I gave him the concept of a data assembly line and auto mapping the accounting to the correct spots based on the operational flow of things. We had a great little chat.

Mike has a good overview picture of his business. You could see the wheels turning in his head as we talked. That is awesome. He also has a number of great contacts that could really help play in at some point.

Here are a few requests that he had... just dreaming

- eChecks out in ecommerce for paying big customer bills. He was worried about the credit card fees getting too big.

- He would love to see a commission report that shows a relationship (even a reverse relationship) between commissions paid and bad debt (commissions paid on invoices that never got paid). Interesting.

- He would love to see a year over year breakdown of revenue, cost of goods, profit margins, etc. Along with this, he would like to see all of the values as a percentage of revenue. He would also love to see things year over year, month over month, week over week, and even day over day (Mondays compared with other Mondays or Thursdays compared with other Thursdays). Basically, different ways to look at the data to see trends and evaluate performance. Tons of aggregation of data and viewing things in different ways. Real business intelligence (BI).

- He would love to figure things out, work out the kinks, and then show it to his contacts so that it could help them. He likes helping people.

- He would love to see auto reconciliation of the bank statements.

- Other automations - those can come over time and as needs arise.

- For me, I printed him off a few small graphics. They were pixelated and not super professional. I'd love to get more printable items for advertising.

All in all, a great meeting. I have a return appointment for next week.

New payment type for EBT (electronic benefit transfer - modern-day government food stamps). Added it to data 0 and then cascaded it to other servers. Meeting with Eric to help with ecommerce gift card payments and other money types (payment types). We did some local testing and resolved a code conflict. After working with Eric, went back to updating servers with new money types. Let Sean and Cory know that the new payment type was up and live.

Work session with Shannon and Abby. I showed them the new touchscreen quantity modifier piece (new code for the mini scan cart). We worked on the attributes section inside the presentation gallery. Shannon bailed out and just Abby and I finished out the session. We added worked on the data over time page - new icons and sub text.

At the end, we, Abby and I, stopped our timecards and spent some time talking about life and the journey that we are all on. We talked about being in the present and finding success along the journey. We talked about dreams and ways that we either want to help others or ways that we are being helped. Fun stuff. See attached for a cute Family Circus about gaining small victories. Good stuff.