Welcome.

BetaAPP is an open source project to continue development of the WebAPP (Web Automated Perl Portal) content management / portal system. This is being done to carry on efforts as have been put forth towards WebAPP versions since mid-2004.¹ This site is a live demo and working example of the system.

With discussion forums and a group-accessible CVS file revision system, BetaAPP's fluent nature and live demonstration of the newest code serves as a versatile development platform. BetaAPP has rather an interesting system in that the versioning is by date. At the CVS area, a downloadable zip of updated files may be made by members at any time, either of all files, of files since a certain date, or of selected files. Each package's version is time stamped with the current date at time of download. A static "snapshot" package is occasionally updated and is available in the downloads area for non-member public visitors.

Our main focus here is currently on the basic core code: being bug fixing, Perl code optimization, HTML markup reduction, and security.

The goal is to never have a final version, thus be "forever in beta".

¹ Please see our About page for more history of the project.
 

Announcements: Mar 25 2007 at 22:24 PST by Jos

Because I have been very busy lately with the WebAPP project at web-app.org , activity here at BetaAPP must remain secondary. Therefore at the current time this site is serving only as an archive of ... More

Announcements: Feb 13 2007 at 16:01 PST by Jos

It's not a good idea to download the files in the CVS at the moment. They're really old. I'm fixing to renew them and start fresh with the WebAPP 0.9.9.5 version. Everything we have done here has gone into that version, so there is no loss there.

News: Nov 6 2006 at 3:04 PST by Jos

If you were wondering what happened to us here, we were busy with getting the web-app.org site back up again. We put out the minor update version 0.9.9.3.5 there at the WebAPP site to celebrate the re-opening, and then we followed up by putting together ... More

File Updates: Sep 23 2006 at 17:05 PST by Jos

The image /images/avatars/Anonymous.gif as used in the Who's Online page (action=who or whosonline.pl) was missing. It has been uploaded now to the CVS.

File Updates: Sep 21 2006 at 2:26 PST by Jos

Due to the recent entities filtering being done on the Recent Search page, the quotation marks were showing up encoded (") on the recent searches page. There is an updated search.pl file to fix this problem now available in the CVS.

File Updates: Sep 18 2006 at 7:08 PST by Jos

All files in the CVS have been gone through and compared with the most recent WebAPP version 0.9.9.3.5. All updates that have been made to that version are now in the BetaAPP CVS files. Also added were some updates that have been made since Sept. 7, date ... More

News: Sep 12 2006 at 1:27 PST by Jos

There were some important things updated and added to the latest WebAPP release that are not yet integrated with the BetaAPP files here. I'd advise at this time to use the upgrade pack available at the WebAPP site at web-app.org, direct download info ... More