Sean checked in and was telling me about a demo that he did last Friday. He is getting better at prepping things, making an outline, and even having preset URL (web links) ready as they go through the system (quick way of jumping around without having to navigate and/or fill everything in). That's awesome and good to hear.

After Sean left, I was doing emails and other small to do list tasks.

Meeting with Cory. She was checking on projects. We ended up looking at some corp stats for a client. We found a small discrepancy between two different reports. The numbers were the same, but one report had more information, and it would be nice if both had the same values. One is called the history homepage (more values and drill-down links) and the other is called corp stats (no drill-down links and missing things like customers, log entries, customer media/content, employee/user counts, vendor counts, bank counts, etc.). We might need to build that out a bit.

Cory invited Shari O. in and they were helping me to look the data and figure out what is wanted and needed. I did a small data fix for Cory and a client on the data 8 server. It was running kinda slow. Anyways, we got it all fixed and patched up.

Working on the advanced part/item search layout settings and defaults. Spent time wrapping the show/hide settings with conditional logic for the different reports, exports, and columns (headings and data output). I had to pull down a new local SSL certificate in order to do some testing. I ran into some docker (container and virtual image or virtual server setup). I got with John and we rebuilt some of the docker image stuff. We ran into more problems with my local box. That kinda stopped me for the day. Did a few other tasks but decided to hit it tomorrow.

Sean and Michael were meeting and talking about gift cards, demos, and sales. I was cascading updates and settings to other servers. John jumped in and helped me with the Herbo server and with my local docker image stuff. The Herbo server just needed to be restarted (Adobe ColdFusion services). We kept running into problems with the docker image stuff. Some of it would run great and other parts would fail or not work correctly. Wayne jumped in and helped me out as well. No major success before the server meeting started (the next meeting).

We started out in the server meeting talking about an outage we had last week at the hosting level (upstream of us). We talked about what to do about an outage and getting and SOP (standard operating procedure) or process in place for what to do on a disaster recovery type level. Cory was checking on different projects.

Wayne is looking into ColdBox as a ColdFusion framework. We talked quite a bit about his findings and progress. After that, we were figuring out what is next for the data 5 testing server. We've had a few projects that get almost all the way done and then sort of get lost in the sign-off and testing phases. It could be data, time, scenarios, settings, or just not watching it all the way through. That code isn't gone, it's just sort of stalled out or in limbo land. Cory and John were making plans to do some testing on a project.

They were looking at a server and why it is running slow. We need more info from the client as to what they are doing (process or procedures). We really need to know what corp, what page, what time of day, and what process they are doing. Just saying that the server was slow doesn't help us out very much. Once we finished this up, Cory bailed out and left just Wayne and John and I on the meeting to work on my local development environment (docker images, git stuff, and database code).

Both Wayne and John were watching my screen and trying to help me figure out what was going on. We repulled down code, rebuilt images, and did whatever updates we could think about. Tons of command line stuff. I'm not very good at that (hardcore IT and tech stuff). They were very kind to help me for hours and hours. As we worked, we were having some side conversations about different things. Here are some of my notes.

- Aspects, events, announcing (broadcasting states and status), listening for events and announcements, virtual queues, and event handlers.

- We talked about resource collections, private resource collections, and virtual session management options.

- Standards and consistencies across platforms and development environments

- Different modules for security, validation, etc.

- Form validators and bulk issue finding

- The power of mixing rules and assignments

- Virtual flash memory and managing containers for memory objects (just in time memory allocations and storage).

- Thinking in both layers and levels - for almost everything

- Writing less code using a framework

- If we went with a new framework, we would need both training and deeper education.

- We talked about having both commercial products as well as open source products. Mixing the two types together. Some people will buy the commercial product and then contribute to the open source product. Or the other way around - open source to commercial.

- Packages, extensions, modules - making complex decisions

- Looking at clustering options - comparing Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion - including options for clustering and licensing requirements. Adobe ColdFusion is really nice, but you can lose your shorts on the clustering options and prices. It can get painful in the pocketbook (costs).

- If we make some changes, we would have to change our pricing models. If a client or customer wants more dynamic resources, they have to pay for it. The price would based off of usage vs just a fixed or static price.

- We talked about paying for support - both what we offer and what we are requesting from other vendors and web hosts.

- Talking about ways to give back to open source models and projects - help with bug fixes, donations, and keep pushing their product forward. We spent a little bit of time talking about other ways to help businesses and products that we like and want to support. Just conversations at this point but rolling a few things around.

Wayne had to leave (dinner time where he was at) and just John and I kept going. Wayne checked back in a few time but to no avail. We couldn't get my local environment fully back up. Wayne is going to do some testing on his side and we'll hit it again tomorrow. While we were waiting for things to download and install, John and I were talking about computers and different specs. I may need to upgrade my local computer. It's kinda small for what I use it for (spec wise and hardware wise - RAM, motherboard, chips/cores, hard drive, and processor speed).

Bryan and I going over progress on the online scheduling for rentals. We talked about being able to setup a default template. We went over pros and cons of either a manual path or full automation. I sent him a small list of things that will help get us across the finish line. Our goal right now is just to create an MVP and then circle back around and expand the options, settings, and functionality.

Small data fix for Kelly on data 34. Had to fix some sub inventory attributes for a PO that had been voided but had sub inventory on it. We did some back and forth via text message and we got it all figured out.

After that Cory had me look at a custom PO label that needed to be fixed/tweaked for a client. The barcode was missing a small piece and thus not scanning the number that we wanted for the sub inventory package. The number was right, it was just missing the "~" for the sub package or sub id number. For example: Say it was sub id ~34, the barcode was only scanning as 34. On the phone with Cory, made the small fix, and pushed up new code. Also sent the update to John and Steve to push into master. My local box is still kinda broken.

Recording notes from today and yesterday (4/17 and 4/18).