Cory and John joined the meeting. John was reporting in on his projects. He has been helping with servers and server stuff. Everything seems to be going well there (for now). It's a constantly moving target. He is also working on more state level withholdings and payroll projects. He has full authorization to keep pushing that ball forward. His other project is the discount engine and some changes there. We spent a bit of time talking about this and how we could advance the ball and push things forward. Sometimes, some of our projects get almost stalled out. We are trying to get them across the finish line and keep actively chipping away to get them live and into the main flow of things.

After John left, just Cory and I were talking about stuff. We need to update some server security stuff. Some of the old documentation has an older hosting company that we used to work with. We have almost completely switched to another company and need to update some of the documents and flyers. Cory and I were also talking about quotes, custom invoices, and possible black box options (custom code). Black box code has been both a blessing and curse. It totally allows us to do custom work, without hurting the main pages, logic, or flow. On the flip side, it creates more maintenance if things change. Anyways, we talked about some pros and cons.

The other option is more settings and then we make it global. That is the better solution, but sometimes, that has a price tag of more than double to do it that way. For example, we were looking at a small project that would only take a couple of hours to do it via black box. To go in and add more settings, you are looking at more like ten or more hours. Big difference. We have to weigh out which is better and what we can afford or get funded. Constantly a small battle.