Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
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The Jolt Awards were announced last night. The list of winners is below. We had some particularly competitive categories this year (in Technical Books, I advise you to simply fill your shopping cart with the finalists). Most delightful, this was a year where there was some real innovation, which I'll highlight in some individual discussions. 1. Books General Jolt Winner: - Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn (Addison-Wesley Professional)
Productivity Winners: - Catastrophe Disentanglement by E. M. Bennatan (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Practices of an Agile Developer by V. Subramaniam and A. Hunt (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
- Software Estimation Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press)
2. Books Technical Jolt Winner: - Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design by B. McLaughlin, G. Pollice, and D. West (O'Reilly Media)
Productivity Winners: - Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Refactoring Databases by Scott W. Ambler and P. J. Sadalage (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland (O'Reilly Media)
3. Change and Configuration Management Jolt Winner: - AccuRev 4.5 with AccuWorkflow (AccuRev)
Productivity Winners: - AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
- Perforce SCM (Perforce)
- Team Foundation Server (Microsoft)
4. Collaboration Tools Jolt Winner: - Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
Productivity Winners: - Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
- NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
- TeamCity (JetBrains)
5. Database Engines and Data Tools Jolt Winner: - Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)
Productivity Winners: - Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
- Dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
- SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)
6. Design and Modeling Tools Jolt Winner: - stpBA Storyboarding (stpsoft)
Productivity Winners: - Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio (Corticon)
- MagicDraw UML (No Magic)
- Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite (DataDirect Technologies)
7. Development Environments Jolt Winner: - NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
Productivity Winners:
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
IronPython (Microsoft)
Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research) 8. Enterprise Tools Jolt Winner: - Cape Clear ESB Platform (Cape Clear Software)
Productivity Winners: - Liferay Portal (Liferay
- Appistry EAF (Appistry)
- Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pentaho)
9. Libraries, Frameworks and Components Jolt Winner: - NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)
Productivity Winners: - JViews (ILOG)
- .NET Framework 3.0 (Microsoft)
- Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel)
10. Mobile Development Tools Jolt Winner: - Carbide .c++ Professional Edition (Nokia)
Productivity Winners: - Crossfire (AppForge)
- NetBeans Mobility Pack and Sun Java Wireless Tookit (Sun Microsystems)
- Qtopia (Trolltech)
11. Project Management Jolt Winner: - Rally Enterprise (Rally Software)
Productivity Winners: - 6th Sense Analytics (6th Sense Analytics)
- Teamwork (Open Lab)
- V1: Agile Enterprise (VersionOne)
12. Security Jolt Winner: Productivity Winners: - DevInspect (SPI Dynamics)
- Fortify Source Code Analysis (Fortify)
- Metasploit Framework (Metasploit)
13. Testing Jolt Winner: - AgitarOne (Agitar Software)
Productivity Winners: - Mindreef SOAPscope (Mindreef)
- Parasoft SOAtest (Parasoft)
- TestComplete (AutomatedQA)
14. Bug and Defect Tracking Jolt Winner: - TestTrack Studio (Seapine Software)
Productivity Winners: - JIRA (Atlassian Software Systems)
- OnTime 2007 (Axosoft)
- Software Planner Professional (Pragmatic Software)
15. Utilities Jolt Winner: - VMware Lab Manager (VMware)
Productivity Winners: - Adobe Captivate 2 (Adobe)
- ElectricCommander (Electric Cloud)
- Textmate (MacroMates)
16. Web Development Jolt Winner: - Adobe Flex 2 (Adobe Systems)
Productivity Winners: - IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
- Mindreef SOAPscope Server (Mindreef)
- NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 (Sun Microsystems)
17. Websites and Developer Networks Jolt Winner: - Sun Developer Network (Sun Microsystems)
Productivity Winners: - CM Crossroads (CMC Media)
- Koders.com (Koders)
- Krugle (Krugle)
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