Wayne jumped in and gave us a small demo of where he is at with the images. That seems like it has been a little bit crazy, trying to switch things over to AWS. The old way used ColdFusion and physically uploaded an image. Once the image was uploaded, it resized, renamed, and moved the images around where needed. The new process has to take the image, upload it to a single spot, then tweak it and save it out to an S3 bucket that is somewhat floating in the cloud. Not as stable (physical) as the old way, but eventually will be more powerful.

Dustin and I were working on some JQuery stuff for his pages. We ended up going back to a super simple test page type scenario to work on the pieces. It is amazing how if you take a super complicated piece and break it down to bare bones, you can play with it and learn vs getting completely overwhelmed. That is the value of a small test page.

Eric came on to the meeting and wanted to add a small form filter to one of the reports. No big deal, right? Well, he wanted the sales reports to be able to filter by customer type id (this is not a direct table value - we had to join other tables and then run custom filters). We also had to deal with form values, URL values, validation, flip/flopping between page scopes, drill-down links, button code, and other pages and tweaks. He had no clue that it would go that deep. We spent the next 1.5 hours following all of the cause/effect relationships for just adding a single form field.