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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Productivity Winners:
- Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
- Dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
- SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)
6. Design and Modeling Tools
Jolt Winner:
- stpBA Storyboarding (stpsoft)
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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)
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Productivity Winners:
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
IronPython (Microsoft)
Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research)
8. Enterprise Tools
Jolt Winner:
- Cape Clear ESB Platform (Cape Clear Software)
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Productivity Winners:
- Liferay Portal (Liferay
- Appistry EAF (Appistry)
- Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pentaho)
9. Libraries, Frameworks and Components
Jolt Winner:
- NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)
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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)
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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)
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Productivity Winners:
- 6th Sense Analytics (6th Sense Analytics)
- Teamwork (Open Lab)
- V1: Agile Enterprise (VersionOne)
12. Security
Jolt Winner:
- AppScan (Watchfire)
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Productivity Winners:
- DevInspect (SPI Dynamics)
- Fortify Source Code Analysis (Fortify)
- Metasploit Framework (Metasploit)
13. Testing
Jolt Winner:
- AgitarOne (Agitar Software)
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Productivity Winners:
- Mindreef SOAPscope (Mindreef)
- Parasoft SOAtest (Parasoft)
- TestComplete (AutomatedQA)
14. Bug and Defect Tracking
Jolt Winner:
- TestTrack Studio (Seapine Software)
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Productivity Winners:
- JIRA (Atlassian Software Systems)
- OnTime 2007 (Axosoft)
- Software Planner Professional (Pragmatic Software)
15. Utilities
Jolt Winner:
- VMware Lab Manager (VMware)
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Productivity Winners:
- Adobe Captivate 2 (Adobe)
- ElectricCommander (Electric Cloud)
- Textmate (MacroMates)
16. Web Development
Jolt Winner:
- Adobe Flex 2 (Adobe Systems)
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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)
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Productivity Winners:
- CM Crossroads (CMC Media)
- Koders.com (Koders)
- Krugle (Krugle)
HALL OF FAME
- IBM developerWorks (IBM)
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