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It's starting to take shape now. Basic mind maps can be created (although only simple tree structures - no cross-links between ideas yet) and they can be opened and saved to OPML files.

Over the weekend I started to create platform-specific builds for the Mac and Windows (Linux coming next). The binaries for these and the pure Java version are available via the project page.

I've also started to create the look of the application. For the moment this means pictures of Frank Zappa plastered everywhere. Looks a little rough. I really need to spend an evening with Photoshop and the The Gimp (did you know that Gimp can export Windows .ico files? Very useful).

The code needs tidying up next. There are hardly any unit tests and the separation between model, view and controller is a little arbitrary. I'd like to formalise things a lot more and probably bring in a library called INX ("Interfaces iN XML") that I started a while back. It will let me lay out frames using HTML-style syntax in XML and then bind Java beans to the views.

Good Heavens. My longest post yet...