I'm the moderator of the "Development Environments" category of the Jolt Awards and this year the finalists are:
Development Environments
This makes for …
more ...Change and Configuration Management
AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
Automated Build Studio (AutomatedQA)
FLEXnet Connect (Macrovision)
Perforce: the Fast Software Configuration (Perforce Software)
Team Foundation Server (Microsoft Corporation)
CA Wily Introscope ChangeDetector (CA / Wily Technology)
Collaboration Tools
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
Code Collaborator (Smart Bear Software)
Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
NetBeans …
more ...Books (Practical/General Developer Interest)
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (Addison-Wesley) by Alistair Cockburn
Catastrophe Disentanglement (Addison-Wesley) by E. M. Bennatan
Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Apress) by Eric Sink
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
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Microsoft has posted version 1.1.13.8 (whatever the heck that means) of their F# compiler, which gives me an excuse to discuss the book Practical OCaml by Joshua Smith.
Practical OCaml is a new release from APress. My favorite technical book of last year was Practical Common Lisp …
more ...\<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321486811/thinkinginnet-20"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools 2nd Ed. by Aho, Lam, Sethi, & Ullman is the perfect book for two niches: people writing C compilers for embedded processors and CS students running the gantlet of compiler courses …
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Aug 13, 2006 by [Larry O'Brien]{.reviewer .fn} "Beautiful Evidence," by Edward Tufte
more ...????? There's a sad irony in this book: Tufte is the guru of information density but his latest book contributes little to his previous …
How did I miss this? The tool TOAD by Quest Software is utterly essential to developers using Oracle (and, I would guess, DB2). It's not quite utterly necessary for SQL Server developers who have access to one of the higher-end Visual Studio SKUs. But... ah hah! ... it is available for …
more ...The Jolt Awards are the major industry award for software development tools (compilers, libraries, etc.). One problem we face every year is proper classification of tools. Traditionally, we try to refine / fine tune the previous year's categories (Development Environments; Libraries, Frameworks, and Components; etc.). Problems arise frequently balancing the number …
more ...My favorite technical book of the past year was Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. Believe me, if it could convince me to return to Lisp, it's a well-written book.
However, all the cool kids are learning Ruby. Ruby has some Lisp-like flexibility in comparison to more popular languages like …
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I just bought David Goldberg's "The Design of Innovation," (his book "Genetic Algorithms in Search Optimization and Machine Learning," is an exemplary piece of technical writing). On checkout from Amazon …
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