Merging and launching some code for Eric and some 3rd party solution changes dealing with wholesale with excise taxes. There was a good discussion about using AJAX (asynchronous javascript and XML) to push/pull data without getting in to server-side timeouts of web/browser timeouts. Basically, using AJAX, you can shift the load from the browser and the server to primarily just the server. The browser becomes a communication channel and has virtual placeholders that get altered based on the JavaScript side of the AJAX calls. It is a way to make bigger lifts seem easier, by spreading out the load and making the browser (web stuff) think that it is done, while the server is technically still working and processing the request. Lots of possibilities there.

John was reporting on servers and some new bug and slow query tracking that he and Wayne are doing. They are also getting together a list of known issues and will be sending those out for the developers to work on and/or fix. Great progress. Still slow, but making progress. We also had a number of talks about the pros and cons of Cloudflare. It has been both a blessing and a curse. It does speed things up and it does protect things (like a shield), but man have we had major kickback from the clients - especially due to timeout errors and required captcha images to verify that humans are doing the work vs bots or machines. Anyways, that battle still looms.