I got back from Dallas last evening at about 5:30 pm.
Gina and I had dinner with Nicole and Jeremy @ Pluckers (near Lakeline mall). It was good, had a few extra wings that I might eat for breakfast.
I was in Dallas pretty much all this past week for Jaduka meetings and the 2nd annual Executive Retreat. Jaduka is a subsidiary of NetworkIP. NetworkIP has three sister companies, Encompass, Centris, and Network Communications.
The retreat was centered around team building and leadership, with an additional emphasis around synergy between the companies.
All good stuff.
I found a lot of the information useful. Some of the information was brand new concepts for me, while I had heard of some before and a few I had come that a similar conclusion on my own. (Which it is always nice to find out that something you feel that you came up with is reinforced by others having the same idea, particularly when they are trainers.)
It was a fun time. And while it wasn't grueling coding work. It was work, meeting a bunch of new people, learning new concepts, and basically the sessions started at 8 am every morning. Breakfast ran from 7-8 am every morning, I barely made it to breakfast the first day, the second I was lucky that the start of the session had been pushed back until 8:30 am, and then on Friday morning I completely missed it. Luckily I had a case of the late night munchies on Thursday night and had half my room service sandwich left, so I didn't go hungry.
The accommodations for the retreat were top notch, it was a the DFW Lakes Hilton Resort. The format of the hotel very much reminded me of the hotel that ETel was hosted earlier this year. (Note, ETel '08 has been canceled, bummer!)
The Retreat had activities planned throughout the day (training and social) and night all week, so I haven't had the chance to really do anything on the Weasel site.
However, before I left for Dallas I did make some good headway by switching from coding everything from scratch to using Drupal & Ubercart. This has definitely reduced the amount of time it will take to get a working site up for John. I have about 1/4 of his products in the database and need to work on getting the rest in there today, that way I can work on the 'homepage' part of the site as it isn't looking quite the way I want it. I also need to work on testing out the PayPal integration, Ubercart is PayPal certified, so I am not concerned about it not working. Just wondering how it all looks.
Best get to it.
Laterz
