15th Annual Software Development
Jolt Product Excellence Awards
Finalists
Books: General
- Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products by Jim Highsmith (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams by Alistair Cockburn (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw (Addison-Wesley Professional )
- Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra (O'Reilly)
- Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People by Johanna Rothman and Gerald M. Weinberg (Dorset House)
- Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky (Apress)
- Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks and Tools by Jack Greenfield, Keith Short, Steve Cook, Stuart Kent, John Crupi (Wiley)
Books: Technical
- Better, Faster, Lighter Java by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland (O'Reilly)
- C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices by Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu (Addison-Wesley Professional )
- Head First Servlets & JSP by Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra and Bryan Basham (O'Reilly)
- Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook by James Elliott (O'Reilly)
- Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, Second Edition by Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, Pat McCarthy (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Mono: A Developer's Notebook by Edd Dumbill and Niel M. Bornstein (O'Reilly)
- Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code by Peter J. Scott (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Physically Based Rendering: Theory to Implementation (The Interactive 3d Technology Series) by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys (Morgan Kaufmann)
Business Integration and Data Tools
- Compiere 5.1 (Compiere/open source)
- DT/Studio 2.3 (Embarcadero Technologies)
- EnterpriseTenFold (TenFold)
- ILOG Rules for .NET (ILOG)
- MapForce 2005 Enterprise Edition (Altova)
- sforce 5.0 (salesforce.com)
- Speech Server (Microsoft)
- Toad for Oracle8.0 (Quest Software)
Change and Configuration Management Tools
- AccuRev 3.5 (AccuRev)
- CodeBeamer 3.5 (Intland Software)
- Dimensions 9.0 (Serena Software)
- Perforce SCM (Perforce)
- SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.2 (VA Software)
- Subversion 2004 (CollabNet)
Design Tools
- MagicDraw UML 9.0 (No Magic)
- MetaEdit+ 4.0 (MetaCase)
- Rational Software Architect (IBM)
- Smart Development Environment 2.0 (Visual Paradigm International)
- SmartDraw 2.0 (SmartDraw.com)
- Together Designer 2005 (Borland)
- Visual UML 4.1 (Visual Object Modelers)
- WayPointer Highlighter 4.0 (Jaczone AB)
Languages and Development Environments
- Borland Delphi 2005 (Borland)
- CodeRush 1.1 for Visual Studio (Developer Express)
- Eclipse 3.0 (Eclipse Foundation)
- IntelliJ IDEA4.5 (JetBrains)
- JBoss AOP 1.0 (JBoss)
- Python2.4 (Python.org)
- REALbasic 5.5 for Windows Professional Edition (REAL Software)
- Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7 (Sun Microsystems)
Libraries, Frameworks and Components
- Big Faceless Java PDF Library 2.0 (Big Faceless Organization)
- ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 4.0 (ComponentOne)
- Hibernate 2.1 (JBoss)
- ImageGear Professional 14 (AccuSoft)
- LEIF 2.2 (Rogue Wave)
- Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (Sun Microsystems)
- Xtreme Toolkit 9.51 Professional Edition (Codejock)
Management Tools
- Active! Focus 2.0 (Xapware Technologies)
- Autotask 10.0 (Autotask)
- CaliberRM2005 (Borland)
- Cost Xpert 3.3 (Cost Xpert Group)
- Rational Portfolio Manager (IBM)
- Primavera IT Project Office 4.1 (Primavera Systems)
- SpeeDEV 4.0 - LME (Lifecycle Management Enterprise) (SpeeDEV)
- V1: Scrum1.5 (VersionOne)
Mobile Development Tools
- CodeWarrior for Symbian 3.0 Professional (Nokia)
- ComponentOne 4.0 Studio Enterprise (ComponentOne)
- Crossfire 5.5 (AppForge)
- Flash Lite 1.1 (Macromedia)
- J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2 (Sun Microsystems)
Security Tools
- Aladdin eSafe4 (Aladdin Knowledge Systems)
- Aladdin eToken (Aladdin Knowledge Systems)
- CounterPoint 1.0 (Mirage Networks)
- Source Code Analysis 3.0 (Fortify Software)
- Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server2004 (Microsoft Corporation)
- POPFile .22.2 (The POPFile Project; open source)
Test: Automated Test Tools
- Agitar Agitator and Dashboard 2.0 (Agitar)
- Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) and Testing Tool 3.0 (the Eclipse Foundation)
- Jmeter 2.0 (The Apache Foundation; open source)
- LISA 2.5 (iTKO Inc.)
- Parasoft Jtest 5.1 (Parasoft)
- QA Wizard 2.4(Seapine)
- TestComplete 3.0 (AutomatedQA)
Test – Defect Tracking Tools
- Census 6.0 (MetaQuest Software)
- FogBugz 3.1 (Fog Creek Software)
- JIRA 3.0 (Atlassian Software Systems)
- OnTime 2004 for Web and Windows (Axosoft)
- PowerTrack 2004 Add-In for Visual Studio (Axosoft)
- TestTrack Pro 7.0 (Seapine)
Utilities
- AppExpress 2.5 (Endeavors Technology)
- Captivate 2004 (Macromedia)
- devAdvantage 2.1 (Anticipating Minds)
- InstallShield 10.5 (Macrovision)
- Omea Pro 1.0 (JetBrains)
- Quest JProbe 5.2 (Quest Software)
- Windows Installer XML 2.0 (WiX) (Microsoft)
Web Development Tools
- CollabNet Enterprise Edition (CollabNet)
- Contribute 3.0 (Macromedia)
- FlexWiki 1.8 (Microsoft Shared Source Initiative)
- Macromedia Flex 1.5 (Macromedia)
- NitroX 2.0 (M7 Corporation)
- Sun Java Studio Creator (Sun Microsystems)
- Tomcat 5.0 (The Apache Jakarta Project and leading Tomcat contributor JBoss)
- Zend Studio 4.0 (Zend Technologies)
Websites and Developer Networks
- Agile Modeling Home Page (Ambysoft Inc.)
- developer.* (DeveloperDotStar.com) (Daniel Read)
- eBay Developers Program (eBay)
- gantthead.com (gantthead.com)
- IBM developerWorks (IBM)
- Java.net (Sun Microsystems)
- The O'Reilly Network (O'Reilly)
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