Winners of the 15th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards were announced last night, Wednesday, March 16, by the editors of Software Development magazine. The Jolt awards ceremony was held at the SD West Conference & Exposition at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California's Silicon Valley.
For the past 15 years, Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards have been presented annually to products, books and websites that have "jolted" the industry by helping to create faster, easier and more efficient software. Jolt cola, the fabled soft drink used by software developers for sustenance during development projects, sponsors the awards presentation.
The 2005 winners by category are:
Books: General
Jolt Winner:
-- Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert
Bates and Kathy Sierra (O'Reilly)
Productivity Winners:
-- 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
Jolt Winner:
-- Better, Faster, Lighter Java by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland
(O'Reilly)
Productivity Winners:
-- C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices by Herb
Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu (Addison-Wesley Professional )
-- 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)
Business Integration and Data Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- EnterpriseTenFold (TenFold)
Productivity Winners:
-- DT/Studio 2.3 (Embarcadero Technologies)
-- ILOG Rules for .NET (ILOG)
-- Toad for Oracle 8.0 (Quest Software)
Change and Configuration Management Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- Subversion 2004 (CollabNet)
Productivity Winners:
-- AccuRev 3.5 (AccuRev)
-- CodeBeamer 3.5 (Intland Software)
-- Perforce SCM (Perforce)
Design Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- Smart Development Environment 2.0 (Visual Paradigm International)
Productivity Winners:
-- MagicDraw UML 9.0 (No Magic)
-- Rational Software Architect (IBM)
-- Together Designer 2005 (Borland)
Languages and Development Environments
Jolt Winner:
-- Eclipse 3.0 (Eclipse Foundation)
Productivity Winners:
-- IntelliJ IDEA 4.5 (JetBrains)
-- Python 2.4 (python.org)
-- REALbasic 5.5 for Windows Professional Edition (REAL Software)
Libraries, Frameworks and Components
Jolt Winner:
-- Hibernate 2.1 (JBoss)
Productivity Winners:
-- ImageGear Professional 14 (AccuSoft)
-- Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (Sun Microsystems)
-- Xtreme Toolkit 9.51 Professional Edition (Codejock)
Management Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- CaliberRM 2005 (Borland)
Productivity Winners:
-- Autotask 10.0 (Autotask)
-- Rational Portfolio Manager (IBM)
-- V1: Scrum1.5 (VersionOne)
Mobile Development Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2 (Sun Microsystems)
Productivity Winners:
-- CodeWarrior for Symbian 3.0 Professional (Nokia)
-- Crossfire 5.5 (AppForge)
-- Flash Lite 1.1 (Macromedia)
Security
Jolt Winner:
-- Source Code Analysis 3.0 (Fortify Software)
Productivity Winners:
-- CounterPoint 1.0 (Mirage Networks)
-- Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 (Microsoft
Corporation)
-- POPFile .22.2 (The POPFile Project; open source)
Test -- Automated Test Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- Agitar Agitator and Dashboard 2.0 (Agitar)
Productivity Winners:
-- LISA 2.5 (iTKO Inc.)
-- Parasoft Jtest 5.1 (Parasoft)
-- TestComplete 3.0 (AutomatedQA)
Test -- Defect Tracking Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- FogBugz 3.1 (Fog Creek Software)
Productivity Winners:
-- Census 6.0 (MetaQuest Software)
-- JIRA 3.0 (Atlassian Software Systems)
-- OnTime 2004 for Web & Windows (Axosoft)
Utilities
Jolt Winner:
-- Captivate 2004 (Macromedia)
Productivity Winners:
-- devAdvantage 2.1 (Anticipating Minds)
-- Omea Pro 1.0 (JetBrains)
-- Quest JProbe 5.2 (Quest Software)
Web Development Tools
Jolt Winner:
-- Macromedia Flex 1.5 (Macromedia)
Productivity Winners:
-- Contribute 3.0 (Macromedia)
-- NitroX 2.0 (M7 Corporation)
-- Tomcat 5.0 (The Apache Jakarta Project and leading Tomcat contributor
JBoss)
Websites and Developer Networks
Jolt Winner:
-- The O'Reilly Network (O'Reilly)
Productivity Winners:
-- developer.* (DeveloperDotStar.com) (Daniel Read)
-- IBM developerWorks (IBM)
-- Java.net (Sun Microsystems)
Hall of Fame:
-- InstallShield (Macrovision)