Six of us were on the morning meeting today. Eric started out with some questions about the wholesale customer and cross corp inventory transfers. After that, Wayne had a number of questions about servers and where things are going. He is doing great and getting some of the old servers moved over from older dedicated boxes (spinning on metal drives) into virtual servers (VPS environments) and using SSD (solid state drives).

As part of the conversation, Wayne was pitching test driven design and even charging some of our clients who really want to be able to check or test key functionality points with their own automated tests. This would be an extra cost, but it would also give the companies a level of comfort that they could run some automated tests to make sure all systems were go and good for whatever their reasons are. This would be especially true for custom functionality and custom features and processes.

We ended up talking about the need to pay for additional services... if you want it, you just have to pay for it. There is also a side of that that allows us to be paid to help enhance the system based on needs. That is always a good strategy.

Other subjects were dealing with real test case scenarios, what test driven design means, end of the life cycle (being supported) for Adobe Flash, and planning for the future. As a side note, I'm really sad to see Flash going away. We have used Flash as a part of our development going way back. Currently, we have 4-5 major Flash widgets inside of adilas. We have all of the my cart favorite buttons (user defined point of sale buttons), the adilas barcode generator (free barcode and label program for adilas users), and the adilas check write application. Their are also a number of fun navigation options for main homepages that use Flash. We will miss it as an option.

One of the last subjects of the meeting was between Dustin and Steve. They were going over API socket information dealing with Metrc (state compliance and tracking system for medical marijuana and cannabis regulations). There is constant needs there and it almost feels like we have to code two different systems to keep up with the changes. We also have a number of clients who really use that feature and rely on us to help them keep synced up and fully in compliance. Quite the balancing act.