Jolt Awards

2014
Coding Tools Jolt Award: Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Jolt Productivity Awards: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA v. 13, iPython Notebook[1]


2013 Books [2]
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 [3]
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[4]


Mobile Tools: Adobe Phone Gap [5]


Testing tools: Selenium [6]


Third-Party Libraries: Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET [7]


Utilities: Parasoft Virtualize[8]


2011 Books [9]
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 [10]


Jolt Productivity Award: Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners, by Warren D. Sande and Carter Sande [11]


Jolt Productivity Award: SDLC 3.0: Beyond a Tacit Understanding of Agile, by Mark Kennaley [12]


2009 Books[13]
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