Meeting with Wayne and Eric. Talking about internal shopping carts and refactoring the internal cart engine. Not the user interface but the backend logic and brain. They were talking a new cart model and making things consistent.

Just for fun, we were talking about what adilas might look like if it was a building (a core with multiple add-on's). Kind of this conglomeration and stacking of structures on top of structures. Kinda interesting.

We talked about taking the logic and look-ups out of the pages and into functions and models. Trying to standardize things. We talked about overloading variables and using a single thing to hold multiple things. For example: We have a form field that is called store_id. However, behind the scenes, that field has the store id, the store initials, and the whole store name. Basically, we pass a list of data to prevent a later look-up, but it basically overloads a form variable.

Anyways, just trying to be more consistent and having  a known starting point. We also got into duplicating things to cart, invoices to carts, quotes to carts, restore to cart, buttons to carts, barcodes to carts, simple searches to carts, starting from a customer vs an item, etc. We are trying to make all of those pieces work in tandem and flow smoothly between the different sections. Basically, creating models, controlling inheritance, and the flow of data and logic.

Eric was talking about the time it takes to push things live. If the model is not consistent, it takes twice to triple the amount of time.