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Entity development has been picking up as we have been starting to rely more hevily on it at work. As a result of us needing the ablity to change colors i added a style="" attribute to all the widget tags.

This has a format similar to the gtk styles so it was easy to produce the effects i wanted. (Not really, gtk style stuff is poorly done IMHO.)

I have started adding a new widget to Entity, called <sheet>. It currently uses the Gtk+Extra's GtkSheet widget to do a the work. I came up with a way to let the users domain their cellular data using a <sh-set> instead of just droppinging all the x,y-cell tags directly into the sheet. This will let people program thier sheet as speedily as possible for each task.

We need a new tree renderer because gtk+'s trees are really unconfortable to work with. I think i am going to add the gtk ctree as both the ctree tag and the tree tag.

We'll i have been slacking off lately, mostly working to much at work and not enough on Entity.

We are becoming more and more commited to Entity at work, and i have some features i need in entity for work so i think i am going to add them RSN.

• color attributes for all tags
• better trees
• cleaner url handling

I guess i did get something done sence last time...
Using owen's memprof tool i found and fixed most of the major leaks in Entity. I must admit its a darn nice tool and because of it , i probably won't need to get Purify for at work.

Recently added the clist to Entity, but tonight i picked back up on my little pet e-mail client written in Entity. I plan on using the url code for doing all the networking in the client which should be pretty easy to add in.

While working, i was thinking that maybe i should see about adding a mime tag that could do multipart mime for the programmer. I'm thinking i'll email the mutt authors and see if they have a problem with thier mime code being linked into entity as an lgpl library.

I really wish more code was BSD licensed but i can't complain too much. :)

Well we (The Entity Core Team) made a release of entity today to freshmeat. It wasn't on the main page long, but we probably got quite a few hits.

Now that the 0.5.0 release is out of the way i have been working on the clist code so that we can provide a good way to display large amounts of data to the user. I'm modeling the xml tag naming after html tables. I know that most people don't like html tables but i think the dislike it mostly a product of the crappy browsers and not the spec.

I now work for cylant technology, over at www.cylant.com. A guy i work with there and i wrote a neat little document annotation program in entity in about 30 minutes. (Its included in entity core dist in the apps/ dir as docuwhr.e

Anyway, i'm really proud of the way this entity release has turned out and wanted to share my enthusiasm. So, give it a try and tell Ian(Slow) and me what you think. :)

be sure to look for my diary entries for continuing Entity propoganda...