Talking with Russell over the morning meeting. He was showing me around the new news and updates pages. Lots of new tools and features and ways to showcase features, benefits, advantages, support items, and topics of interest. Good stuff. Russell is also putting a really nice flavor to the new graphics and such. He is taking things to a much higher level. That is awesome.

Russell and I had a pretty good conversation about the direction that we want to take. We both talked and expressed that we want to keep adilas as a general tool that could be used by all kinds of businesses and individuals. We talked about an analogy of a tree with roots and branches. Our goal is to keep things balanced. I asked Russell to help steer us in that direction. I gave him a thumbs up and the verbal go ahead.

As a side note, our developer's notebooks and meeting notes have a virtual gold mine of information, ideas, lessons learned, and vision for the future. We need to slow down enough to tap into that resource. It is huge and covers almost 20 years of experience.

Alan popped in and we chatted for a bit. We went over some our upcoming plans and how we are going to tie things together. Basically, we'll keep pushing on in-line dollar off discounts, other discount rules, and then finish up the sales tax piece. We will then roll into options to expand the my cart favorite buttons and turn that portion into the pricing engine or the foundation of the pricing engine. That will naturally tie into sales and promotions and such. We'll have Eric working on loyalty points and gift cards and special tracking accounts. In the mean time, we'll circle back around and help with sub inventory and mini conversions. Ideally we'll also have Calvin working on the foundation of the label builder pieces. Once we get all of those pieces in and stabilized, that should really help.

Alan would also like permission to setup a testing server environment. We talked about using the adilas content server as that environment. Good stuff. We need to test and be confident that things will work in live scenarios, especially with the new database changes and world building stuff that is coming up.

As we were talking, Alan would like to build in some testing and more active object oriented stuff. This means more session based stuff, classes, objects, functions, getters, setters, etc. Piecing things together and combining like code into families and related code sets. Alan and I also talked about how we really want to tie in to time and elements of time as part of the object oriented model. We went out to the developer photo gallery (old drawings and graphics from the developer's notebook) and talked about how huge the time element is to the whole project. We also lightly talked about 3D world building and concepts of the data assembly line. Good conversation.

Spent the rest of the session paying bills, recording notes, and doing emails and tech support stuff.