On a GoToMeeting session with Russell. He was showing us some new and modern concepts of MVC (model view controller), object oriented pieces, full API access, getters and setters, custom skins, GUI interface, and tons of cool JSON storage stuff. Russell also had a number of ideas for the adilas fracture site and what we could do, be, show, and even become. Kinda fun. I recorded the session.

Russell would like to take adilas to a new level. Putting in standards and testing to help the process. We want to standardize without cutting off the custom code arm that we love and are used to. Adilas would be the safeguard of the data and files and content storage, we then allow, through the API sockets, the ability to sew things up and put things in any way they want. We become the major backend app and allow for customized frontend options. Dream it up, we'll wire it up.

Steve and Russell had some early conversations about custom dashboards and being able to build things with small widgets, modules, cards, windows, panels, tabs, etc. Be able to show/hide different things, be able to drag and drop features, make it super cool.

Beautiful, powerful, easy!

If you had to start all over again (virtually burn things down), what would you do different? What would you do the same? Where would you take things? Fun questions.

Steve is seeing huge needs of a integrated system out in ecommerce land. Currently, there are tons of small companies trying to build their own little piece of the puzzle, but nothing interacts and fully connects. He is also seeing a need for a single system that could be good at all of the different pieces.

Brief talks about the current adilas Snow Owl theme and where things could go with new CSS variables. Lots of JavaScript and web components. The look and feel is super important. Light talks about heading more and more towards open source code and projects. Good talk and discussion.

After the meeting, Eric jumped in and had some questions on showing some of the discount stuff. We talked about who on our team could do some more CSS stuff and finish up some of the Snow Owl functionality. We also talked about Spencer and maybe having him help with some raw CSS stuff. Maybe we could make some CSS snippets and then build from that or from there. That would be really cool. Good page or resources of the CSS and styling changes (over time). The existing CSS stuff (minus Snow Owl) exists out in https://data0.adilas.biz/css/index.cfm - It would be super cool to keep expanding some of those options... :)