Works on Open Power Template 2.1, the greatly extended successor of OPT 2.0 are almost finished. I know it was a long year, but finally we reach a point where we can plan our next steps and think, what to do next. The current package will be soon packed as OPT 2.1-BETA2, and the remaining functionality will appear as a part of the first Release Candidate.

So far, our projects have been hosted with Subversion control system installed on our own servers. While it is quite convenient and we are not limited by resources, it causes some problems with authentication and simplifying access for users that wish to help us developing our projects. In the last days, we have been discussing on that and decided to switch to Git. In the near future, all the projects will migrate to Github which will become our official hosting platform. I hope it will make the collaboration much easier.

I have published a new tutorial for Open Power Template today. It shows how to use sections and data formats for OPT. I chose this topic, because I noticed that some users have problems with understanding them and decided that an extra tutorial would help them. Before the end of the year, I'll try to write one more text about working with XML in OPT. The article is available on Invenzzia website both in English and Polish language versions.

I have just created an account on SlideShare.net, a place where you can post your presentations and slideshows. I will use it to post various presentations and learning materials about Invenzzia projects, so that you could follow them easily. Currently, you can watch there a tour on Open Power Template (watch on SlideShare). So stay tune and follow us on SlideShare!

Finally, after a 1.5 years of the development process, we managed to release the first stable version of Open Power Template. The road was very long but I hope that it was worth it. In this short entry, I'd like to make a small introduction to the project history for you, as it is quite interesting and could give some clue, how this all began.

Welcome to the fourth episode of Invenzzia Summaries. The issues discussed today:

1. Incoming TypeFriendly 0.1.2 release
2. Revised plans for 0.2 branch of TypeFriendly
3. Open Power Classes
4. Release plan for Open Power Template

Welcome to the third episode of the Invenzzia Summaries. Today we will make a small celebration of the 100th revision to the OPL repository, as well as take a closer look at the recently implemented features, such as PHAR support, caching interface and the improved autoloader.

This is the first episode of the Invenzzia Summaries, a way to inform about various events and activities of Invenzzia Group and the development of the open-source projects. We will try to publish them regularly, but the exact period depends on the amount of issues worth concerning. In the first episode, we will talk about the last beta version of Open Power Template and the new projects that are going to use it.

I've recently uploaded the first revision of Open Power Libs port for Zend Framework to our SVN repositories and it is available there for public audience. The port is not completed yet, but the basic functionality is present and seems to work. I encourage everyone to test it and submit suggestions or noticed bugs. The package includes a test ZF application, and the source code is well-commented. I'll put some extra information on wiki soon, as well as set up the "real" user manual.

One of the goals in the OPL project is not only to provide a set of great libraries, but also teach the popular PHP software, how to use them. Currently, lots of applications are designed with the help of frameworks which often provide their own solutions. It is obvious that the users do not want to deal with all the integration stuff, especially if the library is in fact a replacement for a whole part of the framework. This situation perfectly suits to Open Power Template that is rather a presentation layer framework than just a simple template engine. Currently, the programmers may already use OPT in Kohana Framework thanks to the efforts of Damian Nowak who prepared a nice port. And now, we would like the announcement of the Zend Framework port that will be released soon.