Development update 12 November 2006
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I’m posting this as a quick update, and as a sort of “pre” announcement of the functionality and tools that we’ll be releasing early next week.
You’ll notice some extra pages start to appear in the menu on the right hand side of this blog. These are the beginnings of the Clearskys.net API documentation and should, hopefully, begin to be fleshed out as we progress to version 1 of the API.
So far the XMLRPC interface for the authentication, access control and developer key functionality has been implemented and is live (though still being tested, so liable to change).
Availability Calendars
We have decided that the initial functionality to be finalised and implemented will be centered around the availability calendar area. Rather than take a standard (and in my opinion lazy) approach to availability calendars, and just implement a system that marks a series of dates as “not available” we will be adding what I consider very important functionality…
Introducing Clearskys.net Booking management!
Your availability calendar will now be a by-product of your Booking management system. Rather than just storing booked dates, you can store all the details relevant for a booking, including renters details, payment status, booking and rentor notes, etc…
More details on our initial version of this system will be announced soon (within the next few days) along with our first two Wordpress plugins.
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