Terra Cotta beta announcement

I want to announce a new version of the Terra Cotta site/content admin package I've been working on. http://www.terracottasoftware.com/ The Terra Cotta system is a collection of website design and management tools, data architectures, and programming libraries for database-backed websites. It is useful for the modular implementation and maintenance of web applications, and for resource sharing between them. The new beta release has enhanced the data model to deal with users being in multiple user groups, facilitating some permissioning issues. It also has better alert/logging data models. It includes a wide suite of tools for managing users/files/scripts/alerts/layout views/permissions/login properties/etc. and these have been improved a substantial amount, in removing bugs, adding functionality, and integrating them better with each other. There are also some nice new packages. There's a link catalog, a guestbook, a random quote machine, hit counter, mailform, a mailing list administrator, image manager, etc. There are also some nice libraries, like text-to-HTML parsing, and (soon!) ACH transaction processing. (BTW, if anyone has done this, please let me know. I've been having trouble with errors in the official docs.) If you have downloaded the older version of Terra Cotta, I encourage you to update. If you haven't, try it out! There is a demo version on the site, and although it is crippled some (don't hurt my server, pleeeease! :-)) it should give a good idea of the capabilities of the core toolkit and the plug-ins and libraries. There's now a mailing list for those interested in future announcements, and if anyone is interested in getting involved with development, that would be welcome! Again, the URL is http://www.terracottasoftware.com/ -Greg Billock