Touching base with Alan on a number of different projects. We also talked about some upcoming projects that are coming down the pipeline. Sometimes you can tell as things heat up what will be coming in the near future. We know that more cross corp stuff, more aggregated totals, and backend triggers and virtual stored procedure type events are going to need to play out. Sometime we have to prep as best we can, then let things happen and fall into place, and then move on. Hopefully, you can anticipate the rough sequence of events and plan accordingly. That's the goal and the hope.

After meeting with Alan, I worked on an older clean-up project to get rid of some code that used to reach out to a much older server and would do what we called web service backups. This was our old way of making a change on one server, and then sending the data to another server to act as a virtual back-up of the key data - not all of it, just things like new users, new corps, new locations, new inventory items, new stock/units, new categories, etc. High-level key data. Anyways, this project was to get rid of that older process. It was added to the system back in 2006-2008 ish. At the time, it did its job. Cleaning it up is a turning of an era...