Code review with John on his new changes to the discount engine. We went pretty deep and I think that it was really good. Lots of mixing and blending of technologies, code languages, tools, data, and general tech. Lots of crossing of both Adobe ColdFusion and JavaScript. Sometimes those two technologies can be hard to mix (server-side and client-side languages). Anyways, looking over code and talking about what and why we (mostly John) are doing what we are doing. Great discussion and lots of back and forth. We went over some JQuery, Dom manipulation, AJAX, date stuff, nulls, escaping characters, sanitizing data, JSON objects, crazy string manipulation, and even looking deeper at possible integrations with hardware or underlying Java code. We went pretty deep.

We also talked about what a project takes as far as planning, research, R&D, proposals, mock-ups, design, code, testing, review, project management, and deployment. There are lots of steps. You also have to look both forwards and backwards to make sure that things are prepped and ready for the future as well as smoothly integrated with the past or legacy code. What John is really making is a 1-pager type interface for the discount engine. Big upgrade from what we currently have. He has some big plans for it. The current project includes things like the 1-pager design, modals, pop-ups, custom CSS, tabs, data tables, exports, tool tips, helper windows, and dynamic pop-up sub forms. Lots of moving pieces. Good meeting.