Jolt Awards
The Jolt Awards are awards given out annually since 1991 for software development tools, including books.
Since 1991, the Dr. Dobb's Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient.
For the first twenty years of their existence, the awards were sponsored by Jolt Cola.
2015 Tools
Coding Tools Jolt Award: Cloud9 IDE [1]
2014 Books and Software[2]
Jolt Award: Python in Practice by Mark Summerfield
Jolt Productivity Award: Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup
Jolt Productivity Award: Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript End-to-End by Michael Mikowski and Josh Powell
Jolt Finalist: Threat Modeling by Adam Shostack
Jolt Finalist: Rethinking the Internet of Things by Francis daCosta
Jolt Finalist: Automate With Grunt by Brian Hogan
Software:
Coding Tools Jolt Award: Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
Jolt Productivity Awards: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA v. 13, IPython Notebook[3]
2013 Books [4]
Jolt Award: Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf with Josh Seiden
Jolt Productivity Award: Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seeman
Jolt Productivity Award: Taming Text by Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, and Andrew L. Farris
Jolt Finalist: Team Geek by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman
Jolt Finalist: NoSQL Distilled by Pramod Saldage and Martin Fowler
2012 Books [5]
Jolt Award: Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software by Gojko Adzic
Jolt Productivity Award: HTML5 Developer's Cookbook by Chuck Hudson and Tom Leadbetter
Jolt Productivity Award: iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third Edition by Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass
Jolt Finalist: Elemental Design Patterns Jason M. Smith
Jolt Finalist: Running Lean, Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works, Second Edition by Ash Maurya
Jolt Finalist: How Google Tests Software by James Whittaker, Jason Arbon, and Jeff Carollo
2012 Tools
Coding Tools: CodeRush by DevExpress[6]
Mobile Tools: Adobe Phone Gap [7]
Third-Party Libraries: Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET [9]
Utilities: Parasoft Virtualize[10]
2011 Books [11]
Jolt Excellence Award: Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, by Jez Humble and David Farley
Jolt Productivity Award: Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites, by Matthew A. Russell
Jolt Productivity Award: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages, by Bruce Tate
Jolt Finalist: The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way, by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
Jolt Finalist: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1, by Donald Knuth
Jolt Finalist: Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler with Rebecca Parsons
2010 Books
Jolt Excellence Award: Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden [12]
Jolt Productivity Award: Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners, by Warren D. Sande and Carter Sande [13]
Jolt Productivity Award: SDLC 3.0: Beyond a Tacit Understanding of Agile, by Mark Kennaley [14]
2009 Books[15]
General
Jolt Award: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior, by Tom Demarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson, and Steve McMenamin
Productivity Award: Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development, by Scott L. Bain
Productivity Award: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code, by Van Lindberg
Technical
Jolt Award: Real World Haskell, by Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, and Don Stewart
Productivity Award: High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More, by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, and Derek J. Balling
Productivity Award: Programming in Scala, by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners
2008 Books [16]
General
Jolt Winner: Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Andrew Oram
Productivity Winner: Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management by Johanna Rothman
Productivity Winner: The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
Productivity Winner: Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard
Technical
Jolt Winner: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul M. Duvall
Productivity Winner: xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros
Productivity Winner: Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL by Lynn Beighley
Productivity Winner: The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez
2007 Books [17]
General
Jolt Winner: Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game by Alistair Cockburn
Productivity Winner: Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Software Projects Back on Track by E. M. Bennatan
Productivity Winner: Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World by Venkat Subramaniam
Productivity Winner: Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art: The Black Art Demystified by Steve McConnell
Technical
Jolt Winner: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D by Brett McLaughlin
Productivity Winner: Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis
Productivity Winner: Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott W. Ambler
Productivity Winner: CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
2006 Books
General
Jolt Award: Prefactoring, by Ken Pugh
Productivity Award: Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy, by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel
Productivity Award: Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, by Karl Fogel
Productivity Award: The Art of Project Management, by Scott Berkun
Technical
Jolt Award: Agile Web Development with Rails, by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, and Mike Clark
Productivity Award: Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams
Productivity Award: Practical Common Lisp, by Peter Seibel
Productivity Award: Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging, by Andreas Zeller
2005 Books
General
Jolt Award: Head First Design Patterns, by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, and Kathy Sierra
Productivity Award: Joel on Software, by Joel Spolsky
Productivity Award: Refactoring to Patterns, by Joshua Kerievsky
Productivity Award: Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools, by Jack Greenfield, Keith Short, Steve Cook, Stuart Kent, and John Crupi
Technical
Jolt Award: Better, Faster, Lighter Java, by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland
Productivity Award: C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices, by Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu
Productivity Award: Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook, by James Elliott
Productivity Award: Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, Second Ed., by Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, and Pat McCarthy
2004 Books
General
Jolt Award: Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Productivity Award: The Art of UNIX Programming, Eric S. Raymond
Productivity Award: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
Productivity Award: Pragmatic Starter Kit, by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
Technical
Jolt Award: Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide, by David Astels
Productivity Award: About Face 2.0, by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
Productivity Award: Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer, by Scott W. Ambler
Productivity Award: Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective, by Diomidis Spinellis
2003 Books
General
Jolt Award: Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices, by Robert C. Martin
Productivity Award: Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Robert Nord, and Judith Stafford
Productivity Award: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, by Martin Fowler
Productivity Award: Test-Driven Development: By Example, by Kent Beck
Technical
Jolt Award: Thinking in Java, 3rd Ed., by Bruce Eckel
Productivity Award: Understanding Web Services, by Eric Newcomer
Productivity Award: Core Java 2, Vol. 1: Fundamentals, 6th Ed., by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell
Productivity Award: PHP and MySQL Web Development, by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson
2002 Books
Jolt Award: Effective Java, by Joshua Bloch
Productivity Award: Agile Software Development, by Alistair Cockburn
Productivity Award: Software Craftsmanship, by Pete McBreen
Productivity Award: Under Pressure and On Time,by Ed Sullivan
2001 Books
Jolt Award: Adaptive Software Development, by James A. Highsmith III
Productivity Award: Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug
Productivity Award: Secrets and Lies, by Bruce Schneier
Productivity Award: Writing Effective Use Cases, by Alistair Cockburn
2000 Books
Jolt Award: Software For Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage Centered Design, by Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood
Productivity Award: Extreme Programming Explained, by Kent Beck
Productivity Award: Software Requirements, by Karl E. Wiegers
Productivity Award: After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering, by Steve McConnell
1999 Books
Jolt Award: Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, by Clemens Szyperski
Productivity Award: AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis, by William Brown, Raphael Malveau, Hays McCormick, and Thomas Mowbray
Productivity Award: Software Architecture in Practice, by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, and Ken Bass
Productivity Award: Thinking in Java, by Bruce Eckel
1998 Books
Jolt Award: Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Ed., by Bertrand Meyer
Productivity Award: The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management, by Tom DeMarco
Productivity Award: UML Distilled, by Martin Fowler with Kendall Scott
Productivity Award: Building Object Applications that Work, by Scott Ambler
1997 Books
Jolt Award: Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, by Steve McConnell
Productivity Award: The Distributed Objects Survival Guide, by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards
Productivity Award: Creating a Software Engineering Culture, by Karl E. Wiegers
Productivity Award: Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns, by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, and Michael Stal
1996 Books
Jolt Award: Thinking in C++, by Bruce Eckel
Productivity Award: About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, by Alan Cooper
Productivity Award: A Discipline for Software Engineering, by Watts Humphrey
Productivity Award: What Every Programmer Should Know About Object-Oriented Design, by Meilir Page-Jones
1995 Books
Jolt Award: Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards
Productivity Award: Debugging the Development Process, by Steve Maguire
Productivity Award: Design Patterns, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
Productivity Award: The Design and Evolution of C++, by Bjarne Stroustrup
1994 Books
Jolt Award: Code Complete, by Steve McConnell
Jolt Award: Object-Oriented Design and Analysis with Applications, Second Ed., by Grady Booch
Productivity Award: Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier
Productivity Award: The Design and Evolution of C++, by Bjarne Stroustrup
Productivity Award: Programming on Purpose, by P. J. Plauger
Productivity Award: Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire
1993 Books
Jolt Award: Undocumented Windows, by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, and Matt Pietrek
Jolt Award: Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, by Ed Yourdon
Productivity Award: Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use-Case Driven Approach, by Ivar Jacobson, Magnus Christerson, Patrik Jonsson, and Gunnar Overgaard
Productivity Award: Literate Programming, by Donald Knuth
Productivity Award: Effective C++, by Scott Meyers
1992 Books
Jolt Award: Object-Oriented Design with Applications, by Grady Booch
Productivity Award: Advanced C++: Programming Styles and Idioms, by James Coplien
Productivity Award: Object-Oriented Modeling and Design, by James R. Rumbaugh, Michael R. Blaha, William Lorensen, Frederick Eddy, and William Premerlani
Productivity Award: Object Lifecycles: Modeling the World in States, by Sally Shlaer and Steve Mellor
1991 Books
Jolt Award: Annotated C++ Reference Manual, by Margaret Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup
Productivity Award: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel
Productivity Award: Programming Windows, 2nd Ed., by Charles Petzold
Productivity Award: Turbo C++ DiskTutor, by Greg Voss and Paul Chui
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