Keep tracking the trend in the realm of software development, know what’s the leading product and technology. Let’s read the finalists list of the Jolt Award.
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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