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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