Zoom session with Russell. We spent an hour going over Ajax and jQuery training. I told him that I had to build a small mini cart and he jumped in and was helping me learn some basics. He sent me over the files that we were working on.

We covered topics of: Looking up options for fake api's (get quick data from an outside source just for testing), samples Ajax calls, samples for jQuery, fetch, CSS spinners, we rand some quick tests, pull things in quickly, configured them, and tested them without any special calls (quick and raw). etc.

My other big takeaway from the morning meeting was the value of the continuing education that Russell has been doing, adding it up over time. He was able to jump in and start playing vs having to look everything up or not knowing where to go or start. He already had the basics and was able to build from there. That was super cool and fun to watch. He told me that was from years and years of doing continuing education, a little here, a little there, etc. Super cool!

Eric and I jumped on for a second session going over tips and gratuities, accounting, flow, and exploring that project. Good stuff. Eric was taking the notes today. I scribbled down a few things, not in any order, but here were a few things that we talked about.

This may not make much sense - just quick notes:
Tip flow - deposits, invoice payments, later flow when dealing with paying it out, main invoice amount plus the tip amount and comparing that to the sum of the invoice payments, aggregate data and adding the tips up for history reports and totals and counts. Talking about new expense types and paying those tips out. Reports to show tips earned or tips per person. We also talked about tips on a group level (splitting tips or tips not specific per person). Possible tip payout invoice - or they could just do a negative line on the deposit. Low impact changes.

Meeting with Shannon over the GoToMeeting session. It has been a while since we last met. We spent the first little bit chatting and catching up. That was fun. We then went through some history and where things are at on the adilas frontier. Back stories, front stories, current roll outs, etc. We talked about the pains and it being painful sometimes for things to come together. Sometimes it feels like it takes forever, and it progresses really slow. Just for fun, we called it survival living.

She was a really good listener and I enjoyed sharing some stories and some tales (basically more stories). I gave her two small assignments and she will be working on that over the next few weeks. After that, we will be getting back together to meet twice a week. She has one of my sisters coming over for the next few weeks, so she will be unavailable for a while.

Recording notes from 9/6 and 9/7. Watching a Camtasia video on a guy doing some cool editing. His name is Oz Du Soleil and his video was on making an Excel spreadsheet tutorial. Pretty cool. The fun one was how he made it. Here's the link. Hamid and I are planning on doing some video tutorials for adilas. Maybe not quite that cool!

Hamid works at Walmart and he had to go down and help out another store do some inventory counts. He was telling me how they deal with shrinkage (people stealing) and what not. Pretty crazy. Almost this balance between labor costs (what it costs to have x number of people) and what it costs to write off the shrinkage (stealing). Anyways, we talked about this little balance between the two costs. Interesting.

We went over some Camtasia stuff, video editing, and then onto some Bootstrap stuff. Hamid was checking out a resource for some Bootstrap themes and free web hosting. We are way to big for that, but it was pretty cool (mdbgo.com).

We spent some time talking about the adilas lite outline that Hamid helped me put together. I told him that I used that, just the other day, to send to Steve. That was a big help. I also sent him the Bootstrap theme that we are using for the adilas snow owl theme. Good session.

Recording notes for the day, light clean-up, and checking some emails.