Steve reported about his meeting with Spencer yesterday (flight out to Grand Junction, CO). It sounds like Spencer is quite sharp and also really likes to work with CSS, user interfaces, and graphical look and feel stuff (UX or GUI stuff). That would be really cool. We could really use a good designer and maybe even a person to help train us on what to do as well. I would be super stoked on that.

Steve had a question on how to filter some data out in ecommerce land. His current project is a work around for showing tiered pricing out in ecommerce. We started out looking where he was at on the normal big huge pages (ecommerce searches and search results pages). That was pretty deep, so we did a full test page and coded a small sample file to get us the info that we needed (concept and database level). It was a good exercise and we literally went clear back to the beginning and brought up the small test page from virtually nothing. That exercise helped both of us realize more about parent attributes and where and how things are stored in the database. That project was originally done by Russell and Alan, so we knew about it, but didn't really have deep hand-on knowledge. Good stuff.

After Steve and I finished, I worked with Dustin on doing some sub filtering on his custom cultivation pages. Basically, we ran a pre-query to get certain matching records and then then used those records to filter the next major (actual) query. We then worked on some dynamic AJAX calls. It was working if we called his helper files in smaller chunks, but it would break if we passed too many requests to the helper and builder page. We did what we could and eventually I recommended that Dustin get ahold of Alan to work out the deeper details.