During JavaOne, the Java Posse team paid us a visit at the Cenqua booth and had a brief chat. You can hear it all here
http://media.libsyn.com/media/dickwall/JavaPosse129.mp3
It was a lot of fun and a welcome interlude from doing the standard spiel. I must have done over a hundred demo Crucible reviews during JavaOne.
I decided to give the Safari on Windows beta a quick test drive, from curiosity rather than any pressing need.
Look and feel wise, I found it interesting that it totally disregards the Windows conventions. For example, there is a complete lack of resize handles on all window edges. There is also no aero support, the scroll bar sliders are very mac-like, etc. iTunes, in comparison, seems to be only halfway along in its “maciness”.
Browsing worked quite well. I had one glitch on the store part of Apple’s Australian website but that came good on the next visit. Since the apple store is totally unusable for me in Firefox, that is actually an improvement 
I don’t think text rendering was as clear as Firefox or IE. Maybe tinkering with the font settings would have improved that, but I did not invest the time in that. I had some minor issues in Crucible which will be worth looking at.
I’m not sure what is Apple’s motivation in making Safari available on Windows. I think it will be good for testing purposes, but I will stick to Firefox for my everyday browsing.
I’m at JavaOne again this year. I’ll be on the Cenqua booth (#724) if you want to come along and have a chat. I’ve been working pretty hard recently in helping get FishEye 1.3 and Crucible 1.0RC1 out. I’m really happy with these releases. If you are interested in having a look or just want to drop in for a chat, come along to the booth.
I’m tossing up with having a go at the race car challenge in this year’s show but don’t know if I’ll have enough time to do a good job. We’ll see.
If you ever read the dailyWTF, you’ll know they occasionally have a gallery of funny dialogs, messages, etc. Today I had a WTF moment when attempting to login to Google Apps for Your Domain:
I did wonder if this was some sort of advanced captcha approach
I’m very much in favour of cutting emissions but I found the headline of this article
to be somewhat inconsistent with its own facts
The Federal Government estimates replacing the old bulbs with compact fluorescents in homes could cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 800,000 tonnes a year in 2008-12. Australia’s emissions in 2004 totalled 564.7 million tonnes.
That 0.14% could hardly constitute a slashing.
