New week. Sean joined the meeting and we were just touching base on happenings over the weekend. Steve joined the meeting and the three of us were doing a little bit of catch-up. Steve has been working on the gram controllers over the weekend. Small report there. We talked about how we are constantly rewriting our software, daily tweaks and modifications. Good stuff.

Steve showed Sean and I a huge PDF proposal that he and Mike from Herbo and Eco Science have been writing up and getting ready for a possible big contract. The Herbo pitch uses adilas as the backend accounting and frontend POS (point of sale) system. Interesting mix and Mike is really pushing on things.

As we were talking about pitches and sales, Steve and Sean were rolling over ideas of selling or pitching smaller pieces and doing some local marketing on certain parts of the system. Sometimes we pitch the whole thing and that is so big it scares people away. We do tons of little things, we just join them all together to make up the whole system or platform. Depending on the situation, we may need to only expose smaller pieces at a time.

Everybody else left and John and I were doing some back merging of the master code branch into his local code branch. We were manually comparing old and new files. Trying to keep things updated.

Eric and I going over progress and questions on the gift card project. We spent some time looking over code that was trying to mix both client-side and server-side logic. We decided to keep them completely separate. Making plans and decisions.

Good work session with Bryan. We were looking over code for the client facing scheduling project. Pushed up new code. Bryan is going to keep advancing the ball tomorrow. Most of our work was following the add to cart process and watching things all the way through to the invoice creation and adding the correct flex grid values. We also started to work on adding scheduling from the view item detail page (second pathway through ecommerce). The full path from the shop homepage is already done. This new stuff is a second way of doing it.

Towards the end of the meeting, Bryan was asking some questions about his other project to show/hide customer terms on all of the invoices. We went over a few things and he took some notes.

Working on the code for 710 Labs and Hoodie Analytics. Small output changes to get rid of counter sale (dummy) data. Sent out a few emails and tried to run the historical report.

Steve and Sean were talking about sales, display booths, and conventions. We had a couple of people staffing a live event this past week. They are going to be talking with them today and going over questions and what not.

Steve was asking for updates on a number of projects. They (he and Cory) are going to be starting to implement some due dates on some of the projects that just keep going and going. We need to find a good cap or breaking point. This will be a new change, on some of the projects. Currently, we have some projects that go on and on for months on end. Progress is being made, but the finish line is unclear and thus it just keeps going and going.

I gave Steve and Sean a small demo on the progress and new stuff that we are developing for the online client facing scheduling portion of ecommerce. We were going over things for 10/15 minutes. After that, they both had to bail out and jump on another call with one of their guys. I spent the rest of the time going over emails and follow-ups.

Touching base on projects between Cory and I. Wayne was trying to connect but was having connection issues (he was driving). Once Wayne was able to jump on, he and Cory were going over back emails, client requests, testing plans, and projects. Not sure when, but most likely we will be needing a new primary email server here soon. That topic is gaining momentum and heat. We currently have a solution in place, but it feels like we are growing out of that shell (virtually).

Dealing with the email server code, I need to gather things up and get a copy of those files over to Wayne for review. I'll just go grab them off of the old shared server and send them over to him in a zip file. He wants to look over the old code. It is not currently in our master code branch, because it gets deployed on a separate server.

As a group, we talked about the next project for 710 Labs and Hoodie Analytics. They want a good daily inventory snapshot plus info on committed inventory (items that are on a transitional invoice - at the time of the report being pulled). We will try to get to this later this week or first part of next week.

Towards the end of the meeting, both Wayne and Cory and Wayne and John were coordinating plans and meeting times between themselves. After Wayne left, John was giving Cory and I a small run down on the changes and plans for the discount engine. We are going to be putting a deadline on this one as of October 1st. We really need John to switch gears and help out with some payroll and end of year forms and what not.

Started out with Cory and I going over projects. We touched base on multiple projects. We even spent some time going over existing code and how it worked and functioned (logic questions on customer terms and invoice due dates). We talked quite a bit about merchant processing and both existing options and future development options.

Cory wanted us to look into some code on one of the homepages that showed the top 15 customer/clients based on invoice counts. We looked for a good while but didn't see anything. I took some notes down and wrote them in my digital scratch file. We may have to circle back on that one.

After Cory left, I stayed on the meeting for a bit. I ended up calling the bank and requesting that our daily limit for expenses on our bank card get permanently increased to handle some of our expenses to the hosting company that we use. We spend thousands and thousands a month on hosting fees. Lastly, Chuck and I jumped on the GoToMeeting and I helped him out with a small bug fix on his local development environment. Busy morning!

Light tech support on usernames and passwords. Recording notes and doing some clean-up and catch-up stuff. Bryan and I jumped on a meeting and went over progress on the client facing scheduling stuff. He has it working on the view item details page. We still have a little clean-up to do, but it is looking good.

Good meeting with the Bear 100 radio admin team. These guys and gals will be the data team that helps run the event behind the scenes for the live runner tracking portion of the race. We had six people on the meeting and we spent some time going over the custom Bear 100 runner interface and special custom pages. Small demo, training, and navigating through the different pages of the site. Open Q&A session. Good meeting.

As a fun side note, this is year 7 for the Bear 100 using adilas to help them track the backend runner data. This includes runner details, contact info, aid station times, running legs (between aid stations), and finishing results. The site also has a social side or what we call the public runner portal. From there the runners, their crews, and their families can watch the event, track their runner, add photos, and upload comments and encouragement. Good stuff!

Bear 100 pages and making new pages more dynamic to help with future years and changes that are needed. Changing from hardcoded values to more dynamic variables. Cascading changes.

Emails and recording notes. Pretty quiet on the meeting today.

Working on code changes for the Bear 100 mile race. Took out an aid station, changed some aid station names, and had to rechange all of the aid station numbering. Doesn't sound very tough, but it was quite a bit of work. Going page by page and making the changes.

Tons of changes on the Bear 100 files. Updating dates and aid stations. Testing JavaScript to help with the photo and image uploader. Finished up the code and pushed it up live. I also spent a few minutes and touched base with Bryan on the client facing scheduling and where we are headed with that project. It should be online here in the next couple of days. Good stuff.

Talking with Sean and showing him some stuff with the Bear 100. Looking into Chuck's event code for the events page. Demo and showing Steve and Sean the new events stuff. Small brainstorming on sales ideas and trying to do more special events and such.

Chuck and I working on the printable time page. Going over JavaScript stuff, bootstrap 5, and new stuff. Talking about investments.

Pushing on the events page. Got it up and live and ready for the Bear 100 race.

Working on some new verbage to help with a news and update for the Bear 100. Click here to see the final news and update that Cory and Marisa made.

Took the adilas events banner into town and handed it off to some guys who were going to be putting it up at the pre-race meeting, the starting line, and the finish line.

Work session with Bryan. We were going over code for the online client facing scheduling stuff. Most of our session today was inside of the public facing shopping cart. Going over all kinds of scenarios and online booking stuff. We made a list of to do list items and planning for a public release next week. Things are moving right along.

Working on the backend of the Bear 100 radio admin pages. Going over the import CSV code and working on the main custom backend homepage for the Bear 100 radio admin folks. Also working on other backend pages that go along with their custom interface and special pages.

Bear 100 files. Updating the runner counts and working on the still out running pages. Emails out to the radio admin team. Working on the manual update for a single record. The actual race had already started and I was still working on some of the backend admin pages. Somewhat behind. I had all of the start and first few aid station stuff done, but cutting it kinda close. Finished up around 10 am ish.

We flipped a bunch of aid station numbers around this year. We also dropped a full aid station. I spent a bunch of time on Saturday morning tweaking the code and making sure that the public runner portal was showing the correct information. Going line by line and doing some super deep debugging. Eventually, after checking out the underlying code, I ended up changing where the finish line aid station buttons pointed in order to fix the problem. I had to make sure that the report pointing to the finish line was fully closed vs just the start of the last leg from Ranger Dip (aid 12) to the finish line (aid 13 or finish). It got pretty deep.

Checking stats, uploading photos and comments into the Bear 100 runner portal page.