Weekly update – 15 March 2025

[ryan]

There isn't anything major to write about this week,  so I'm just checking in to say hello and I hope that you are having a nice week, and tell you what I'm working on here. Time this week has been split mostly between working on the new PW website, working on an API project for a client, and researching and interviewing companies to replace our HVAC systems.

That last one probably took the most time, as I didn't know much about HVAC before our maintenance person said it's time to replace the the heating and air conditioning systems. So I've been trying to learn all I can about HVAC in order to go about it in the most informed fashion possible. This is the sort of thing most might only do once or twice in a lifetime (it's a big expense). Usually I'm more DIY with this kind of stuff, and a lot of it is approachable. But when you get into the A/C side of things with refrigerants (R410A, R454B, R30), condensers, compressors, and coils, that's where my head spins, it's way beyond my DIY range. It really is a job for the professionals. So I'm going to leave that to the experts so I can focus on web development.

On the PW website I've been working on the API reference this week, along with some final details on the modules directory. Next week I'm hoping to finish the API reference and start working on the homepage. Following that, I'll be writing a lot of new copy for the Features section (thanks for all your feedback there). Then we should be nearly finished. So it's still a few weeks out, but progress is good. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

[monollonom]

Regarding the API reference, I always wondered if there could be a way for you to add links to pages that reference a particular method and go in deeper details about its usage. One such case could be to link the blog post about output formatting in the $page->of() documentation. Maybe there’s already something in place like this and then it may just be a question of adding/updating links.

Thanks and I’m (we’re all!) looking forward to seeing the new website!

(and I hope all goes well for your HVAC installation)

[Kiwi Chris]

With regard to the documentation, it would be quite good to have newer features that have been mentioned in this weekly update or blog posts incorporated in the main documentation.

Possibly also some of the pro modules stuff, as at the moment documentation is scattered around either in the forum or on the shop pages to purchase the pro modules.

While it makes sense for discussion to be in the forum for people with up to date subscriptions, having documentation in one place might be a help, and might even convince people to buy pro modules if documentation for how they can use them is available.

I notice with Lister Pro, there is some documentation in the API reference under Lister with core lister methods and properties and Lister Pro methods listed together but pro methods and properties identified.