With Serenity Enterprise, we decided to cut out the middle man and create a native PHP wrapper for creating rich user interfaces with ExtJS. The result, ExtUI, will be shipping standard with Serenity AP and all products. Our new inline Admin toolbar ( shown in the graphic to the right ), is built on ExtUI and is our first stable widget for the new platform.

Another plus to the ExtUI library is that it compresses the Javascript on the fly, resulting in faster downloads and intelligent caching.

We’re moving our first public beta release date up for Serenity AP to tomorrow. You read that right: tomorrow. We’ve been purposefully pushing out details in all directions in order to ensure that certain other companies don’t magically pop out of beta with a number of our features. Tomorrow we will post up the first encoded beta of Serenity AP, along with a “HelloWorld” tutorial series so that developers can get settled in with the APIs that have stabilized so far.

Even though tomorrow’s release will be considered a Beta, all code written for the package will continue to work through the final release, as the APIs are considered Stable and ready for public use.

Tune in tomorrow, it’s time we shook up the web world a bit and show what a real small company can do.

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The next step in our product & service roll out is to integrate all aspects of our company websites with OpenID. Customers and members that already have OpenID’s through other providers such as Livejournal, Typepad, Movabletype, or myOpenID will be able to quickly sign in to Labs, forge, our discussion board, and the support center.

Along with the change to single sign-on for the websites, we are also going to ensure that OpenID is available in our community products.

We expect to have this service online no later than Monday afternoon.

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After a few weeks of designing and tweaking, I’m happy to announce the NOT Beta launch of E29 Labs.

Labs will be our sounding board for development ideas, release announcements, and calls for beta testers. We’ve also installed an integrated discussion board on the site as well.

Registration is currently open and free to everyone, and is required to post / reply on the discussion forums. I’ll be following up this post tomorrow with information regarding our product launches and free offerings.

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