第17届Jolt Award终于出炉了，再这之前，我们再来回顾一下候选选手们。
每一届Jolt Award都是重要的参考，其中的每个奖项都可以是过去一年中的顶级作品，而对于我这种嗜书如命的“书痴”自然不会放过Jolt大奖中评选出来的好书，每年的Jolt Winner和部分Productivity Winner的书我都会从国外购买原版，手不释卷，心情也会相当愉快。不过我在想，放眼望去Jolt Award中尽是美国货，不论书籍或是别的产品。什么时候能够出现中国人的身影呢？
与去年相比，微软公司推出的产品收获少了很多——不过，其实应该这么说，Jolt 2006中微软实在太过风光了。
BOOKS GENERAL
Jolt Winner
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game by Alistair Cockburn (Addison-Wesley Professional)
Agile Software Development
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)
| Catastrophe Disentanglement | Practices of an Agile Developer | Software Estimation Demystifying |
BOOKS TECHNICAL
Jolt Winner
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design by B. McLaughlin, G. Pollice, and D. West (O'Reilly Media)
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design
Productivity Winners
- Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott W. Ambler and P. J. Sadalage (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland (O'Reilly Media)
| Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective | Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design | CSS: The Missing Manual |
HALL OF FAME
IBM DeveloperWorks (IBM)
Change and Configuration Management
Jolt Winner:
AccuRev 4.5 with AccuWorkflow (AccuRev)
Productivity Winners:
- AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
- Perforce SCM (Perforce)
- Team Foundation Server (Microsoft)
Collaboration Tools
Jolt Winner:
Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
Productivity Winners:
- Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
- NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
- TeamCity (JetBrains)
Database Engines and Data Tools
Jolt Winner:
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)
Productivity Winners:
- Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
- Dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
- SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)
Design and Modeling Tools
Jolt Winner:
stpBA Storyboarding (stpsoft)
Productivity Winners:
- Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio (Corticon)
- MagicDraw UML (No Magic)
- Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite (DataDirect Technologies)
Development Environments
Jolt Winner:
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
Productivity Winners:
- IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
- IronPython (Microsoft)
- Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research)
Enterprise Tools
Jolt Winner:
Cape Clear ESB Platform (Cape Clear Software)
Productivity Winners:
- Liferay Portal (Liferay)
- Appistry EAF (Appistry)
- Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pentaho)
Libraries, Frameworks and Components
Jolt Winner:
NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)
Productivity Winners:
- JViews (ILOG)
- .NET Framework 3.0 (Microsoft)
- Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel)
Mobile Development Tools
Jolt Winner:
Carbide .c++ Professional Edition (Nokia)
Productivity Winners:
- Crossfire (AppForge)
- NetBeans Mobility Pack and Sun Java Wireless Tookit (Sun Microsystems)
- Qtopia (Trolltech)
Project Management
Jolt Winner:
Rally Enterprise (Rally Software)
Productivity Winners:
- 6th Sense Analytics (6th Sense Analytics)
- Teamwork (Open Lab)
- V1: Agile Enterprise (VersionOne)
Security
Jolt Winner:
AppScan (Watchfire)
Productivity Winners:
- DevInspect (SPI Dynamics)
- Fortify Source Code Analysis (Fortify)
- Metasploit Framework (Metasploit)
Testing
Jolt Winner:
AgitarOne (Agitar Software)
Productivity Winners:
- Mindreef SOAPscope (Mindreef)
- Parasoft SOAtest (Parasoft)
- TestComplete (AutomatedQA)
Bug and Defect Tracking
Jolt Winner:
TestTrack Studio (Seapine Software)
Productivity Winners:
- JIRA (Atlassian Software Systems)
- OnTime 2007 (Axosoft)
- Software Planner Professional (Pragmatic Software)
Utilities
Jolt Winner:
VMware Lab Manager (VMware)
Productivity Winners:
- Adobe Captivate 2 (Adobe)
- ElectricCommander (Electric Cloud)
- Textmate (MacroMates)
Web Development
Jolt Winner:
Adobe Flex 2 (Adobe Systems)
Productivity Winners:
- IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
- Mindreef SOAPscope Server (Mindreef)
- NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 (Sun Microsystems)
Websites and Developer Networks
Jolt Winner:
Sun Developer Network (Sun Microsystems)
Productivity Winners:
- CM Crossroads (CMC Media)
- Koders.com (Koders)
- Krugle (Krugle)