Server meeting with Wayne, John, Cory, Steve, and I. There were a couple of others hanging out, on the meeting as well, but didn't participate. Sometimes they like to hear what is going on. Basically, doing work in the background but just keeping their ear to the ground.

Wayne was reporting on some new application changes that he made in the shop folder this morning. He made sure that certain variables were switched to application-level variables, vs being held in session scope. Small discussion on that process and suggestions going forward. They talked about costs on Fusion Reactor and plans for watching and monitoring but not running up the charges too high.

Marisa had some domain and DNS record questions for Wayne. This is dealing with web addresses and marketing materials. We went over the sales tax aggregate project and the state and status of that project. Eric and Wayne are going back and forth making small changes. It is currently only deployed on the dev testing branch, but we are looking to merge it into master here soon. They, the guys, also talked about optimizing shopping cart functionality and making a skin-deep cart facelift.

Lots of talk about planning out the future and how we are going to deal with end-of-life, plugins, updates, and themes. Before we get too crazy there, we have to help the current system be able to sale more systems. We need to increase the revenue portion of the puzzle. Along with this topic and conversation, we got into talking about triage and what do we need right now and then changing the focus to more proactive or forward-looking plans and strategies. We also need to keep planning and doing reoccurring maintenance and other non-planned system upgrades.

Towards the end, Wayne was showing me the progress that he is making on breaking up the two big tables and how the new system is handling all of the corp-wide settings and defaults. That is and has been a pretty big project. He is making progress and it is looking good. Along with that, we also talked about using the black box services that he has setup to help us maintain and handle custom code and custom pages. We really want to keep the business logic, the database stuff, and the visual elements in different areas and sections. For readability, consistency, and future maintenance.