New Version of Google Wave MindMap Gadget available

I've just updated my Google Wave Mind Map gadget to a new version.  New features include:

• It renders graphically now, so things are a little prettier
• It won't work on Firefox versions earlier than 3.0.  If you are running an earlier version I strongly suggest that you upgrade
• There is now the ability to edit properties, accessable via the properties menu button.
• There is a context menu that can be used to access the menu, accessible via the Right Mouse button.
• You can change the colour of nodes. There's also the ability to edit the background colour, but this is currently unused.
• You can change the outline of nodes:
• Underline
• Circle
• Cloud
• You can change the direction of layout of the root node. Where is places nodes is a bit random, and I do plan on fixing this
• You can specify whether nodes are collapsed upon intial view or not.
• Upload/Download now supports non-ASCII characters, such as Cyrillic

Its not perfect, and there are a few things that need to be fixed, but it is an improvement on the old version so I thought I'd release it. If thre are any problems, please do not hesitate to let me know. I can easily revert it back to the old version if its really broken, or issue quick patches.


I'd be delighted to hear your feedback.

Online mind maps

I was going to write a blog post yesterday about where integration platforms were going, which seems to me to be online webapps without the need for an IDE at all. some products like Oracle's Aqualogic ESB are pretty much already there. I couldn't quite gather my thoughts properly though, so I thought I would do a mind map. I was going to use FreeMind, but considering I was talking about web-apps, I thought I'd do a search for whats out there. Turns out, there's heaps of online mind map editors, but most of them charge for anything but basic capabilities.

I did find mind42 though, which appears to be quite good. I think I'll be reccomending its use in the future. Below is the mind map that I'm working on. As you can see, I still haven't gathered my thoughts very well :-/ One of the nice things about this is that using an online service means that we can post links (just like the one below) in our Wiki documentation and have live updating when the mind map changes. Brilliant!