Bryan and I merged in some code last night that we were working on. It was working great on all of our tests. We weren't able to push it live for testing before it got auto deployed. When it went live, we found that if you didn't have a certain setting turned on, it was throwing an error. I was out hiking and got a call and text message from Cory. I joined the Zoom meeting once I got home.

Wayne and Bryan were on the Zoom meeting with Cory and Shari O. We got the error fixed and made some adjustments to the code. While Wayne was re-deploying code on all of the servers. I was able to get my VPN stuff setup so that I could push code directly to the servers. That ability and connection was down for a couple of days (on my side - just not being able to connect directly to the servers). Anyways, we got it all resolved.

Once things calmed down (servers were getting fixed), I was able to talk to Wayne and do some catching up. We haven't spoken for a few months due to who is on what meeting. That was good and he was explaining his wants and needs (as a system administrator). Some of what he does we don't fully understand and/or know. Our conversation ended up flowing into the start of the server meeting. I think that he needed to talk. That was good.

Meeting with Bryan. Looking over some new merchant processing code and logic. We made a few changes to the add cart payment page and merged and pushed up code on data 0 for some testing, after we had tested locally. After that, we spent some time going over data, steps, and processes for looking at quantities on sub inventory pages and reports. Small work session.

Meeting with Alan over the GoToMeeting session. We did some catch-up and then started talking about plans and priorities. Alan was saying that we could potentially break things down into smaller and smaller pieces. We totally will and need to do that. Just for fun, he said, we could start fracturing fracture (project codename). We looked at the 7-8 projects for adilas lite and talked about priorities and how each one plays into the others. We are planning on focusing more on the value add-on core model project next. We need to lay some things out, define it, and then (even now) start building some of those pieces.

Anything that can be reusable, including concepts and code, we want to build out those pieces. Be able to reuse as much as possible. That way they can help both ship A and ship B out. Good catch-up meeting.

We decided that for the next couple of weeks, we would both focus on some ship A stuff to help out the main adilas system. We have a small deadline to try to hit by October 1st.

Great phone call with Steve. We were talking about options for white labeling and even doing some kind of franchising options for certain companies. We talked about the concept of being like Intel (chip sets). We don't have to be Dell, Sony, HP, etc. We could just be the software (virtual chip set) that run the other programs and products. We don't care what it is called (the selling company). We just want people to use our products, even if they don't know that they are running adilas or a part of adilas in the background.

Anyways, Steve has had a few different people somewhat approach him lately with similar type requests. They virtually want to own their own software but don't want to pay millions of dollars for it. Steve and I were talking about options on how that could play out and how it would work. Great phone call. I enjoyed the conversation.

As part of the conversation, I was lightly pitching the concept of white labeling and how that could tie into layer 2 of the value add-on core model - Industry specific skins - aka - white labeling. We would like to move in that direction.

Working on the mini scan cart. Spent most of the day working on the settings form. Decided to try an accordion (show/hide/collapse certain sections). The form is pretty big, so I was hoping to make it look more approachable. Light debugging on the mix between the accordion and the form stuff.

Bryan gave me a call and we chatted about asynchronous (Ajax) calls and options to help with big reports. I also jumped on a call with Eric talking about EMV chip options and how tips and gratuities play into that. He's making great progress there. We talked about keeping things super generic and then customizing the solution, either through settings, or different payment integrations.

Recording notes from today - busy day (9/19/23).