>>> www.bitweaver.org
>> Thanks. Looks mature, but for my requirements I'm afraid too much. :-/
>
> The nice thing about bitweaver is that you only need the core packages,
> all the rest can be stripped, leaving the security, user management, and
> themeing ready to bolt on other simple packages.

Started playing with Django (http://www.djangoproject.com). Although I
have no Python experience, I was fairly quick up and running a small
application accessing a few tables in my database ...

Regards,
Thomas