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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 3/1/2010 to 3/31/2010 - (36)
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AU 56 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/1/2010 |
• Working on units of measurement. • On the phone with Steve going over needs and plans. • Added the Colorado Standard sales tax Receipt pdf form for stock/units and paperwork. • Posted files online. |
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AU 57 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/2/2010 |
• Figuring out a game plan for what is needed next. • Started working again on units of measurement. • Worked on corp-wide settings. • Activated the show bin numbers, show unit of measurement and show line items. Started to work on how they play into the system. |
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AU 2155 |
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To-do's & Standardizing decimal output | 3/2/2010 |
Scratch Paper: Corp table settings: (See scan in photo gallery) Known things that need to be done as of 3/2/10: - Balance sheet taxes and fee’s – automate sales tax and fees - Help files - Launch unit of measurement changes o Remote side o Corp-wide settings o Bin #’s o Line #’s o Sorts - Remote clean-up for css and corp-wide settings o Dewy o Show/hide parts o Unit of measurements - Customer time/clock - Main site – finish up all corp-wide settings - Update css for main site - Bad debt on Income Statement - Pre-payments on Invoices and Expense/Receipts, check all possible options - New sort for units of measurements – scan in photo gallery Ideas for standardizing decimal output: - Problem… - If a part uses a mark-up, it also uses a corp-wide setting to determine the output values. Valid output values are .00 (20), .000 (3), .0000 (4), or .00000 (5) - A fixed price is run through the adilas dewy decimal function that dynamically picks which decimal output to use - There could be a disconnect between the corp-wide setting and number of needed decimal points. o Could be too high o Could be too low o Could be just right - You could run all of the sale prices through the group or mask function. |
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AU 58 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/3/2010 |
• On the phone with Steve talking about cash flow and marketing ideas. Pretty open and frank conversations. We are hoping that some of the company assets sell and that Steve can loan adilas some money to keep things floating. • Steve had a check cut for adilas for $1,000. I entered it and tied it to the balance sheet account. Followed up on accounts receivables and outstanding money that was owed to adilas. • Worked on the add/edit pages for units of measurement. |
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AU 59 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/4/2010 |
• Working on corp-wide settings for line numbers, bin numbers and units of measurements. • On the phone with Steve going over a business and their smaller businesses. We also talked about new changes that are coming with the Dewy decimals and units of measurement. • Biked into town and did a zip line trip. Got $10 as a tip. • Working on a personal finance sheet for an associate and for the bank loan. • Worked on a corp-wide setting and finished up the units of measurements stuff. • Posted files online and did some light testing. Finished at 1:45am, late night. |
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AU 60 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/5/2010 |
• Small bug fix for new corp-wide settings. Problem was only visible for users with a single corporation. • On the phone with Steve a couple of different times, other random phone calls, helping people with new settings and getting them going after the bug fix. • Worked on help files. |
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AU 61 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/6/2010 |
• Working on help files. • Did some brainstorming on a mark-up and profit calculator. • On the phone with Steve. We mostly talked about the future and skating where the “puck” will be (Hockey analogy). We talked about voice controls, touch screens, and touch screens on portable devices (like iPhone and iPad). We talked about apps and linking everything together. Pretty cool stuff. I told Steve about the new profit and discount calculator that I was brainstorming on today. • More work on help files. |
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AU 83 |
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Daily Ideas | 3/6/2010 | -Add a couple of free calculator pages to the adilas.biz homepage. Finance loan calculator (payments), Profit and Discount calculator. | |
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AU 2156 |
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Brainstorming Profit & Discount Calculator | 3/6/2010 |
((Price – cost)/Price) = Profit Margin Formulas: - Fixed price: Basic number used as is - Mark-up: a decimal based on 100% plus itself - Mark-up: Cost times a mark-up. The mark-up need to be: (cost x (one + the mark-up)) or ((cost * mark-up) + cost) - Profit: price – cost - Profit% or profit margin: (((price-cost)/price)x100) - Calculated mark-up = price divided by cost and then rounded URL’s - Cost - Discount - Mark-up - Mode = basic - Price Type - Profit Margin - Quantity - Sale price Profit/Discount Calculator: Known issue between fixed prices, mark-ups, & margins - It would be really cool to help users learn the difference between the different pricing structures - Show formulas and help them and education them at the same time - Need cost on everything (Diagramming and sample calculations– see scans in photo gallery 3/6/10) (Playing with numbers for the profit calculator – see scans in photo gallery 3/6/10) |
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AU 62 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/8/2010 |
• Help files and working on CSS update for customer web pages. • Small fix on wholesale cart builder pages. • Worked on web service documentation. • On the phone with Steve talking about the apple iPad and doing touch screen stuff. • Finished up the CSS updates and added new code to remote we service pages. • Added the dewy decimals, the units of measurement, the show/hide part option. • Posted and tested the pages. |
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AU 63 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/9/2010 |
• Went in to town and did a zip line trip. No tip. Paid for four trips on 3/19/10. • Added some verbage about the dewy…. to the corp-wide settings. • On the phone with Steve talking about payroll, taxes and balance sheet items. |
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AU 64 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/10/2010 |
• Spent a bunch of time working on connection speed between adilas.biz and USAePay gateway. • Added a new logo for a company. • On the phone with Steve going through our success today. He was working all day with customers and I was checking things out on the credit card processing side to try to speed things up. • Started to work on the sort options for PO and invoice line items. • Posted and tested files. |
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AU 65 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/11/2010 |
• Reviewing the adilas to do lists. Looking at old not book and papers. • On the phone with a customer going over our game plan for the balance sheet and helping them with some options. Our first couple tasks deal with a paid switch on invoices and a re-work on special line items. • On the phone with Steve going over the phone call with the customer and the direction we are going. • On the phone with another customer going over invoices and deposits. • Worked on a new paid invoice switch for the invoice sales, profit and daily/weekly reports. • Posted files online. • Added a new logo for a company. |
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AU 2157 |
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Ideas & To-do's | 3/11/2010 |
Ideas & things to do as of 3/11/10: - Ice down date - Default expense type per vendor - Tighten up check requests – need a master edit form for dates - Reoccurring expense/receipts - B.S. side of expense/types - Reflexive side of the flex grid – all application tie-ins & relationships - Show status of each item and when things happen and when it hits certain places like B.S. & I.S. - Trade-in and lien payoffs - Known issues report - Void photo - Special line items – show/hide – destination – revenue/COGS - Sales tax permission - Automate balance sheet o Expense side o Deposit side o Taxes o Collected fees o Accrual call outs - Finish up corp-wide history reports o Historical o Match to I.S. & B.S. - Add a switch on the daily weekly report for paid |
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AU 66 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/12/2010 |
• On the phone with a customer going over invoices. • On the phone with different folks doing tech support and answering questions. • Worked in the bulk line items sort tool and pages. • Posted the new files online and update help files. |
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AU 67 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/13/2010 |
• Started working on automating the bad debt portion (invoice payments) to the revenue adjustments section of the balance sheet. • Added a new logo for a company. |
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AU 68 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/15/2010 |
• Processed a company’s invoice and reoccurring transaction. Sent an email to the company owner. • Worked on the P&L changes for showing bad debt. • Worked on update email content. • Posted new P&L files online. • Hid any parts that have a Cost of Goods Sold as zero. |
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AU 69 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/16/2010 |
• Finished up the email update and sent it out. • Follow-up on general stuff. • On the phone with an associate talking about adilas. • Worked on the profit and discount calculator. • Biked in to town and had a meeting with Steve and some associates. We talked about sales tax and automating the process. We talked a lot of theory, good stuff. |
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AU 70 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/17/2010 |
• Worked on the profit and discount calculator. • Helped out with bank stuff and booking bad debt. • On the phone with Steve going over progress and things. |
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AU 84 |
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Daily Ideas | 3/17/2010 |
SALES TAX Challenges: - Bad debt - Vendor Fee (money coming back) - Paid/Non-paid - Location – out of taxing district - Time range – monthly, quarterly - Permissions – who changes what, when and lockdown - Change accounts, license plate, customers, etc. (when to pay) - When to lock invoices and sales tax work - Voids/credits - Partial payments - Only pay for non-receivables - Automation of all these variables (just address one at a time) - Lots of moving parts – all tied to the balance sheet Now: - Sales tax details - Sales tax on units is different than parts - Not automated Goal: - Automation – B.S. - Flexible time period - Pull back data – general to detailed - Forms |
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AU 71 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/18/2010 |
• Sent an email update to a customer. • Worked on a logo for Steve’s company. • Spent a bunch of time working on the profit and discount calculator. • On the phone with a customer going over ideas. We talked about their company. This would be a list of images, about paragraphs and a build coupon flyer (rack card) on the fly interface. |
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AU 72 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/19/2010 | • Working on the profit and discount calculator. | |
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AU 2158 |
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Calculating Profit Margins | 3/19/2010 | Calculating Profit Margins – see scan in photo gallery 3/19/2010 | |
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AU 73 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/20/2010 |
• Working on the profit and discount calculator. • Also worked on the loan payment calculator. Added options for years, new verbage and links to the profit calculator. • Worked on formulas and helper verbage for the profit calculator. • On the phone with Steve going over the new profit and discount calculator. We talked about adding both calculators to the main adilas.biz website. Steve also wants a mini standalone version of the P&L and balance sheet. Similar to the other calculators, it wouldn’t be tied to anything but it would allow for training and mini sessions on where things go. • Spent some time writing the idea down and light brainstorming. • Started to add dynamic links to the profit and discount calculator page. |
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AU 115 |
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Daily Ideas | 3/20/2010 | -Steve and I were talking on the phone. He would like a mini page that allows people to make mini P&L entries (fake or just for fun) and mini balance sheet entries. This is like a little calculator page and doesn’t really tie to anything. It basically makes it a standalone mini app with some automated Java Script calcs. Along with this idea, Steve would like a couple of levels of complexity. Super simple/beginner (revenue, COGS, expenses and assets, liabilities, equity), Intermediate or medium (small sub categories within the main items) and full, large or advanced. This would allow for tons of detail and could handle complex items and values. (Notebook images) | |
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AU 74 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/22/2010 |
• Added dynamic links to the profit and discount calculator. Posted files online. • Added both calculators to the main adilas.biz homepage. • Did a logo for a company. • On the phone with Steve going over changes. |
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AU 75 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/23/2010 |
• Clean-up and researching past ideas, papers and notebooks. • Brainstormed on ideas for special line items. • On the phone with Steve for over an hour going over ideas, settings and options. |
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AU 2159 |
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Re-work on Special Line Items | 3/23/2010 |
Re-work on special line items: 1. Special line items are very flexible, get added to every corp by default, have special include/don’t include code already built-in. May need to be handled differently for each corp. 2. Special line items are not included in most payroll reports. However, there is a need for flexible payroll settings. Some examples might be: Other, Shop Supplies, Supplies, Rentals, Fees, etc. 3. Each line item might need special tax category settings. 4. Where do they go? I.S. or B.S.? What are the defaults? 5. Thinking about these possible options for the special line items: a. Part i. Collected ii. Fee iii. Labor iv. Shop supplies v. Freight vi. Shipping vii. Discount viii. Rental ix. Other x. Warranty – F & I xi. Unit xii. Trade – In xiii. Dealer Handling Fee xiv. Lien Payoff xv. Sublet xvi. Verbage/Info b. Show/Hide – show part c. Tax Setting – tax category id i. Misc. ii. Labor iii. Taxable iv. Freight v. Sublet vi. Etc. d. Payroll Settings – Payroll type id i. N/a ii. Labor iii. Parts/general iv. Special categories v. Other vi. Etc. e. Handling – Part handling id i. Special ii. Rev iii. Unassigned iv. Special v. Etc. -Need a new table for the handling or just use the old chart of account types table – for part handling id – This number is tied to the chart of account type 1=Dummy…. Unassigned (black hole) 14=Income… Revenue 15=Cost of Sales… COGS (inverted to) 18=BSI… handling internal |
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AU 76 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/24/2010 | • Working on a tools and feature list page with an associate. He worked on the web (html) version and I worked on the flash version. He came over and helped me out all day long. | |
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AU 77 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/25/2010 |
• On the phone with a customer going over special line items. Added a customer log to the adilas site. Mostly talked about where we are headed, promised a report next week. • Worked on a new logo and colors for a company. They are also starting a new company. • Messing around with a company’s video ad. No charge. • Crunched the video add and added a flash movie to a company’s site. Invoiced for 1 hour. |
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AU 78 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/26/2010 |
• Working on the adilas tools and feature list. • Worked in Flash, worked on the printable version (html) and screenshots for different adilas features. • Posted files and images online. • Went in to town and did a zip trip. No tip, military. |
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AU 79 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/27/2010 |
• Went in to town and did a zip trip. $20 tip, commercial. • Went in to town and called on a company. Talked with the owner for about 20 minutes. I then went over to another company and talked to the manager for about 20 minutes. I have a return appointment for Tuesday at 1:30pm. Added logs to adilas. 10 miles. • Worked on default settings for special line items. • Small fixes on the adilas tools and features list. |
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AU 85 |
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Daily Ideas | 3/27/2010 |
These are some ideas on energy and how to harness different forms of energy... not really related to adilas but some fun brainstorming... From Post-it notes (all stacked together – a 5/27/11, 3/2/10 and 2/22/10): 5/27/11 -What about independent mini systems. Say 1-10 mini systems per wheel that can be used in combination. The combination could be one tire or wheel at a time or all tires at once or 1-10 per wheel. If the accelerator is pushed, it (the system) would add more torque or power to the wheel. -What if all 10 mini systems per wheel could help one another. What if they could piggy back or share power to get an end result. -The less converting… the better. Use raw energy or natural outputs. This may help with efficiency and power. 3/2/10 -Voice and sound wave capture, plastics and rubber compounds instead of springs and metal, transfer of human energy to electric or potential energy, on demand energy – like an on demand water heater, wedges, levers, air compressors, vibration, expansion and contraction, flex (tighten) and extend (release), gyro, independent systems, bite, grid, slice, inject, sugars, carbs, fats, absorption, waste and release options, hydraulics, tractor beam, push/pull frequency (magnetic frequency), UPS (uninterrupted power supply), make before break or break before make. Run power through the battery – that exercises the battery and it is the cleanest route. -Random note: check children’s books on energy and how things work. Great conceptualizing source, toys. -What if you had a substance that reacted to any light (man-made or natural) and it worked like a solar calculator. Small cell, able to feed any light source…. -Different color lasers (red, green, etc.). 2/22/10 -Sugars, honey, suction, fats, vacuum, waves, electro-magnetic, electro-gravity, atomic, mirrors, amplifiers, CO2 or compressed air, jumpstart, plug in, gravity, satellite feed, H2O (rain & snow), static, intake and output pass through, gears like a clock motor, flywheel motors, sunlight, air modules, salt, solar, magnifying glass, fuel cells, batteries, electricity, wind, steam, wood, fire, pressure, belts, chains, light, darkness, laser, hydro, chambering or channeling, chemical, bio, exposing to oxygen, radiation, use wind to power movement just like sailing, friction, gear ratios, flint and steel, wind-up, torque, springs, hover or somehow break gravity – this will lower wheel or ground friction, recoil, centrifugal force, magnets and magnetic force, flubber, inertia, keep something going in a vacuum or specific environment. Change states of matter, hot, cold, mix, extract, add, subtract, multiply, divide, inject, extract, stack, join, squeeze. |
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AU 80 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/29/2010 |
• Research on Flash and barcodes and pdf and barcodes. • Research on adilas.com. They have registered their domain name for a number or years and just barely (last week) got a trademark on the name “Adilas.” Their trademark is in real estate, property, property management and insurance. I will be contacting them via phone and email this week. Just for the record, Steve and I were working on the name “adilas” as of 10/07 to 11/07 (see notebook during that time – both this one and working notebook (green)). • Called and told Steve about the trademark. He was under the impression that a trademark is only good for a certain trade or industry. We also talked about a number of other options and normal business stuff. |
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AU 81 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/30/2010 |
• An associate came over and we did some prep work for going in to town to do some cold calls. Created a new email address and printed out some business cards for him. • My associate and I drove into town and dropped off flyers and such. We talked with about 9 companies. We spent almost an hour at a company already using adilas. I added a couple of logs to the adilas site. |
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AU 82 |
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Daily Tasks | 3/31/2010 |
• Research on barcodes. • Got the new flash component and did some playing. • On the phone with Steve a couple of different times. Talked about merchant processing, barcodes and client needs. We also talked about income statement and balance sheet flow for special line items. He wants me to add a couple of pdf’s to the system. • Worked on special line item settings. • More research on printers and barcodes. |
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