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Survey: Speed (to Market) Kills
ore than 90 percent of companies feel pressure to deliver software releases in unrealistic timeframes, while 62 percent believe that this pressure negatively affects the performance and quality of the software they create, according to a new survey of almost 500 software developers and IT professionals. Many economists predict the so-called jobless recovery will continue in the new year. In this environment, IT and software development groups are under intense pressure to do more with less. Applications of all kinds, particularly Web-based e-commerce applications, are seen as engines of growth that can deliver the illusive combination of increased revenue at a low cost.
"Why is your desktop app not a web app?" | Javalobby
While it may seem that everyone and everything is running on the web and mobile phone, what's the place for desktop applications? Is there one? How big is it? My hypothesis has been that the place of the desktop is simply becoming more clearly defined, rather than becoming less important. I then asked a number of technical leads of large desktop projects why they weren't creating web applications instead of desktop applications. Their answers can be read below.
Aquamacs: Emacs for Mac OS X
Version 2.3 is fast, easy to use and comes with updated support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats. It now supports OS X Services and can be used as external editor (ODB), and is even more reliable than before. The download package is smaller (Intel only, Universal Binary also available). Aquamacs 2.3 is based on the up-to-date GNU Emacs 23.3. The download is available at http://aquamacs.org/download.shtml .