Meeting with Steve McNew. We started out talking about volunteering and helping in our communities. Invest in the youth. Give, give, give. Good stuff.

He will be giving me some new white papers. Light touches to keep things together. Impact analysis, gather the small nuggets that we gain and find, and keep moving towards some more technical white papers. Steve also stated that he is willing to help us out with technical input and consulting, if we ever want to go in that direction.

After Steve McNew left, Steve Berkenkotter and I chatted over the GoToMeeting session. We can take our product out to custom levels, out of the box, better than some companies can do plain custom. We are built for that, in a way.

We talked about moving towards flex attributes (in-line database extensions) for employees and invoices. The employee stuff could be for HR (human resources) and other internal things. Invoices are so used in our system, allowing flex attributes to those would be huge. Once again, custom options right out the box. Build your own - whatever!

The shelf (code repository or code graveyard) - We would love to get some of the older projects off the shelf and make them part of the big picture (really deploy and launch them). We have some projects like: dynamic sales tax naming and new sales tax buckets, invoice due dates, save reports for stock/units, and tons of others. They are sadly, just sitting on a shelf, getting older and further and further away from the current master branch. It takes time and resources to get in there and revitalize those pieces and make them part of the bigger picture or part of the whole.

We would also love to make things as dynamic as possible from the get go. Build with that mentality in mind.