Eric popped in and we went over gift cards. He had made some small changes. We merged and tested some the pieces. I also talked to Eric about some needs coming down the pipeline for aggregates and deeper business intelligence (BI) levels. Eric was requesting deeper access to real database and SQL prompts on the test server. We talked about scheduled events, creating a manual trigger, and ways of getting at server logs and database logs. We talked about possible workarounds and getting things done.

After Eric left, John and I looked at his GUI page for testing results for page re-works. Small code review session and merged in and pushed up the code to data 0. John went in and did some live testing. This is a new tool to track code review, page sign-off, and who tested what on the new pages. It's a graphical tool to show progress on code/page sign-off. Looks good.

Review the itinerary for the professional development training session. This is going to cover the adilas docs, CSS training, bootstrap training, and code sign-off stuff. John and I met and chatted about the plan and itinerary a bit. After that, we got into talking about responsive data tables. Eventually, we would like to do a full rewrite of the system and make the whole things fully mobile responsive and mobile ready.

We also talked about some great professors that John had at school and some of their teaching styles. Also, getting to know the strengths and weaknesses of our guys/gals (our internal developers). Talking about more modern ways of thinking and coding. John is really looking for some feedback from this internal training session and professional development session. Good stuff!

Recording notes. Working on entries from 5/10/23, 5/16/23, and 5/17/23. Some of it was already done and some of it was new as of today.

Recording notes. Tons of ideas on sub inventory. See entries from 5/10/23.

Steve and I got on a phone call for a good hour. He was asking me what I thought was the next major step. I told him that I thought that we needed a good plan, and that was the next major step we needed to take. We spent the whole hour kicking around ideas, pitching ideas, and talking about what we want, where we want to go, and where we have been. Great conversation. We talked about prototyping, experimenting, and in the trenches experiences that we have had and are still having. Tons of good ideas, we just need to get it all lines out and make the pitch.

Regardless, the plan is a next step. If we decide it will be too much money, at least we will have the plan. Otherwise, there are just too many unknowns. Lots of big ideas and dreams. Let's see what we can come up with, as far as a plan goes. Steve wants us to create a new element of time to track what time we spend on making the plan. Here we go!