Recording notes from the past couple of days (10/30/23 to 10/31/23).

A couple different sessions getting back into the discount engine project. Part way through I got a phone call from Steve. We chatted about designers, developers, projects, and where things are at (in general). Good phone call. He wanted a link to the project CSS theme. That's the one that we used to develop the snow owl theme for adilas. After the phone call, back on the re-vamp of the discount engine project. Most of my time was spent combing over the older discount engine page.

Meeting with Bryan. Going over his progress on the bigger CSV file builder stuff. He's working on sub pagination and breaking whole processes into smaller pieces. Small meeting touching base and checking direction.

Light prep for a Bear 100 radio folk meeting. Going over pages that they sent me with requests, requirements, and flow ideas. We then got on a GoToMeeting session with about 10 of the radio (HAM radio) folks. Good meeting. A guy by the name of Guy was leading the meeting. I took a bunch of notes. Bascially, the aid station workers were asking for limited access to the data. Previously, the only ones who had real access were what they called the data team. We may end up exposing a super small interface to allow the data team to check things (mini API socket or packet distribution). See attached for some notes.

Shannon wasn't feeling good. We decided to skip today. We'll hit it again next week.

Working with Bryan. We got into some of the loops within other loops. It can get pretty confusing. Anyways, we were doing way too much. We ended up checking to see how many database hits were happening to pull a certain number of records. I think that because the loops within loops were off, we were making the system work too hard.

We pushed up some code and did some testing. It was still a little bit crazy and we decided that tomorrow we would rewrite it and spend time going line by line vs just a quick review of the code. We even took some time to write what we were planning in plain English vs writing it in code. Sometimes that helps you see a better overall picture vs getting lost in the technical aspects of the code.

Meeting with Hamid over the GoToMeeting session. Touching base and then helping Hamid install ColdFusion on his local box. Small intro to ColdFusion with things like variables, lists, arrays, and URL parameters. Small training meeting.

Working with Bryan on the bigger reports and processes to make CSV files. We created a new branch and are going to be rewriting some of the deep looping logic. We spent the full session going over things and starting from the top of the page and rewriting things. Lots of testing, teaching, searching, and explaining. Small work/training session.

Recording notes from 11/1/23 to 11/4/23.