First impressions of Netbeans 6 are good, to be honest I haven't tried it with Java code but I like the Ruby support enough to make it worth using for that alone. There is a relatively small 19MB download if you only want ruby support.

download here

I like ruby and don't have much need to actually code in it but enjoy when I do have an excuse.

I think its rise might be assisted by the news that you can now run Ruby on .NET

It was a surprise to hear that Apple have released a beta version of their browser, Safari, for the Windows.

After thinking about it I'm not sure that they actually want to compete with the many other browsers on Windows at all. The other piece of the puzzle is that the soon to be released iPhone doesn't run third party applications and is instead restricted to running what can be displayed using safari - web apps and DHTML. Apple probably want the iPhone to be another iPod in that it is bought and used by people who don't necessarily have macs and some of those will be developers who might like to contribute a widget but can't test it - which is where the Windows version of safari comes in.

I still think the fact that you can't run any real apps on it is a bit of a gaping hole and means that they are lagging behind windows mobile.

I am getting a little bored of the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" parodies but this one made me laugh.

I think that other jar might have jRuby in it ;-)

I had to reset an MSN id today and faced with a CAPTCHA that I had difficulty reading. I thought I would hit the button to use the audio version instead and just type it in, nice.
Just as I was thinking this was too easy the sound kicked in..... I listened to it twice and still couldn't make out properly what was said and had no interest in listening to that nightmarish noise again.

I've been improving and extending some javascript recently and have been missing something like Junit or Test::Unit.
I started writing a quick set of assertxx functions to be able to test and then start test driving the new code.

After a short time I felt like I was re-inventing the wheel and a google later I found jsUnit. It has the nice comforting green bar and finds testxxx functions at runtime. Check it out.