Danny, Sean, Steve, and I on a meeting. Who is our competition? What if we took our sales angle and tried shooting for bigger targets. We can get small accounts, but that takes a lot of work to get them setup. Really big ones have a bunch of red tape and lots of levels of management to get through. It gets tough.

Talking about associations, relationships, and social networking. On the training side of things, we talked about getting the word out and helping people know what we do. Currently, nobody knows all of the pieces of adilas. That is crazy. Just for fun, I rolled back and was looking at an older entry that was talking about what we have and what we offer. See element of time # 5484 for more info.

We then got into talking about private research and transferring knowledge and information. We need to keep working on good documentation and what we really have.

Code review with Bryan on his unique event stuff and online scheduling. We were also looking at a few post-it note bugs and changes that Bryan is making. One of them (small fixes) was dealing with updating vendor/payees with an inventory flag. The other one (small fixes) was dealing with show/hide settings for part categories and the show/hide on the web setting.

Looking over unique web events and online bookings. More code review and did some merge conflict stuff.

Working with Bryan. We were fixing bugs, cleaning up pages, and I was pointing him in the next direction for time settings. See element of time # 8004 in the shop for a list of things we want to do with time (new time template settings).

Going over the time ecommerce page settings and making a few changes. Light clean-up process and code review.

Steve and Sean going over more custom labels. Talking about using a calling company to help with leads and demos. I was doing emails behind the scenes.

We started out talking about some yummy food (before Thanksgiving). That was kinda fun. We then switched to API's and trying to fix a small bug. We ended up having some session stuff in the CFC's. We got that removed. I will work with the developer to help them not do that again. It worked fine for internal exchanges but it would fail if we used external exchanges (API sockets).

John checked in and we talked about payroll and state withholdings. He is going to focus on Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Colorado, etc. We'll go from there.

Meeting with Wayne and Eric. Talking about internal shopping carts and refactoring the internal cart engine. Not the user interface but the backend logic and brain. They were talking a new cart model and making things consistent.

Just for fun, we were talking about what adilas might look like if it was a building (a core with multiple add-on's). Kind of this conglomeration and stacking of structures on top of structures. Kinda interesting.

We talked about taking the logic and look-ups out of the pages and into functions and models. Trying to standardize things. We talked about overloading variables and using a single thing to hold multiple things. For example: We have a form field that is called store_id. However, behind the scenes, that field has the store id, the store initials, and the whole store name. Basically, we pass a list of data to prevent a later look-up, but it basically overloads a form variable.

Anyways, just trying to be more consistent and having  a known starting point. We also got into duplicating things to cart, invoices to carts, quotes to carts, restore to cart, buttons to carts, barcodes to carts, simple searches to carts, starting from a customer vs an item, etc. We are trying to make all of those pieces work in tandem and flow smoothly between the different sections. Basically, creating models, controlling inheritance, and the flow of data and logic.

Eric was talking about the time it takes to push things live. If the model is not consistent, it takes twice to triple the amount of time. 

Small work session with Bryan out in ecommerce land. We pulled some session variables out of the functions and put them in-line in the page logic.

Looking into a merge request from Eric. I wrote him back after making some changes. On the phone with my dad talking about being a teacher to teach adilas courses for LinkedIn. We really need to get into the training end of stuff.

Emails, small code merge for Eric, and reading and doing some research on why we do what we do. We are making conscious decisions. See element of time # 5484 for some older ideas and session notes about the why and why we do what we do.

Talking with Sean about a cart redo "the guts" and how we are going to refactor things. Going over gift cards and where that project is at. Getting closer, just waiting on the cart logic refactor. Just for fun, Sean and I were talking about the classic look and feel vs the newer snow owl theme and look and feel. The classic is fully done but older. The snow owl theme look and feel is newer but is only partially finished (full page rewrites). Still updating pages and sections. It has more functionality and provides our users with a better overall experience.

Along with those look and feel discussions, we were talking about some what if's... what if we used a super generic (almost black and white) type interface for training (just the basics) and then showed how you could skin it (adding on the look and feel once you know what you are doing). As we were talking about this, Sean said that he has a email that had some client requests on it. I asked him to send it over for review. I would really like to see what the client wish list is.

As a side note, one thing that some of the clients were asking for, which we do, is no transaction fees, they just wanted a flat rate or a flat fee. I thought that was interesting. Basically, don't punish me for doing more transactions. Steve and Sean asked for a demo on the new unique event online scheduling. We ran into a small bug and the demo didn't go very well. It's close, it just needs a little tweaking.

I switched and did a small bug fix out in ecommerce and pushed up some new code.

Bryan and I going over some new time template settings for make private and admin only settings.

Emails, working with Bryan on time template settings, merging in some new code, and running some tests. Also spent some time looking into tweaks that were needed for ecommerce and unique events. Bryan asked for some more post-it note fixes (small mini project that hit our to do list). I did some look-up and research and got some code samples for the new date picker stuff.