Reviewing things with Steve. We talked a little bit about a new email server for adilas. Currently, we are using an existing shared account setup by Newtek to run all of our emails through. Going forward, we may want a little bit more control and/or get our own email servers vs using the normal Adobe ColdFusion. Wayne is the server guy and might be able to help us out there. Good stuff.

Steve was talking to a rep and I was overhearing their conversation - lots of talk about ecommerce and how to get people logged in and tons of other ideas and topics. As part of the conversation, I heard him say - "Adilas is clay - what do you want?" I love it and I've heard it before from others, just not sure if I have recorded it. We have a custom business solution that is configurable.

Wayne popped in and we were talking about email server options. He is super smart and has done tons of that. We spent some time talking about security features, queues, etc. Wayne is also doing some automated tests and is helping to harden up the servers. He is hitting some of our servers as if he were an outside hacker. That helps us see where the vulnerabilities are (in some ways). We also talked about options for testing, staging, and production environments on all servers. This deals with different code branches and how to virtually use three different code sets, three different databases, and even three different sites (web addresses) where we could simulate live data and other variables. We have never been able to do that. Basically, we could duplicate live data for testing and staging and then play in a semi-live but non destructive manner. That would be super cool.