Slashcode 2.0 "Bender" Starts Beta

Slashcode 2.0 ("Bender") is officially in beta. We now have themes, plugins, an abstacted database layer (MySQL support is beta, PostreSQL is alpha, so finally the rivalry can be settled ;) a journal system for users, a spiffy template language, better mod_perl usage, ways now for other languages to talk to our authentication layer, and oh so much more. Best of all, the code has been massively scrubbed and de-Taco-spaghettified(TM). You can find a copy on the ftp server. Hopefully the beta phase will be fairly short, as once its over, we'll get to move Slashdot, and have a clean codebase to which we can add all those features we've been wanting for so long. Thanks to Tofu, Krow, CowboyNeal, and Pudge for the toil. And good luck to everyone out there interested in poking at it: this version will give you much more joy then the last one *grin*