Dustin joined the meeting and was checking in and asking about merging in his code. He also had a server 500 error on his local box. Cory, Chuck, and I were talking about parts and items and requested changes. Going over pros and cons of the new look and feel changes. Some people really like it and some people want it to be reverted back to the old way. Cory really wants to include our clients and get their help with testing (power clients) and feedback.

Most of our discussion are possibly leading towards more settings on display and functions. That seems to be the secret. We also talked about slowing down and taking more time to test, get feedback, let our clients know, etc. The discussion turned into talking more about settings and building out vertically or horizontally. Ideally, we will try to build out more stuff vertically vs horizontally. It just scales better going vertically. For example: We have a corp-wide settings table that has over 400+ settings. That makes that table huge (horizontally). We are actually trying to flip that and run everything vertically (variables value pair) and add new records for any new settings. Database tables are built to have millions and millions of records (vertically stacked records). We are heading that way, to lighten the load on some of the huge database tables.

We ended up talking about some of the new pages and even rolling things back and making it look nicer (going back to the old way). We tend to assume a lot vs getting real feedback. Sometimes those assumptions can really hurt you. Anyways, we were pitching some small proposals and ideas around.