Jolt Award Winners 2006
Software Awards are funny things. At the Jolt awards these were the big soda can winners:
- General Book: Prefactoring
- General Technical Book: Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails
- Enterprise Project Management: WelcomRisk 2.6
- Database Engines and Data Tools: Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Defect Tracking, Change, and Configuration Management: Perforce SCM 2005
- Design Tools and Modeling: Lattix LDM 2.0
- Development Environments: Visual Studio Team System 2005
- Libraries, Frameworks and Components: .NET Framework 2.0
- Mobile Development Tools: Crossfire 5.6
- Quality Project Management: Rally 5.6
- Security Tools: Elemental Compliance System 1.4
- Testing Tools: VMTN Subscription 2005
- Utilities: Camtasia Studio 3.0
- Web Development Tools: Rails 1.0
- Hall of Fame: Visual Studio Professional Edition
Quick thoughts are that Microsoft and Ruby cleaned up. I actually read the two books that won and I enjoyed both of them.
[...] Jolt Award Winners 2006 [...]
[...] Ist Rails wirklich so gut oder sind alle anderen nur einfach schlecht? Ich habe keine Ahnung, aufjedenfall hat das Rails Framework einen Jolt Award als bestes ‘Web Development Tool’ erhalten. Und das Rails Buch ‘Agile Webdevelopment’ erhielt den Award als bestes ‘General Technical Book’. Mein Glückwunsch. Die Gewinnerliste sieht interessant aus. Viele Dinge die man sich mal anschauen sollte, hauptsächlich Rails natürlich (-; [...]
Ja gewiß, Rails ist einfach und überraschenderweise hochproduktiv, aber Ich glaube daß ‘Prefactoring’ ist einer Rückschritt als Wasserfallprozess.
[...] We won, we won! Not once, but twice. Agile Web Development with Rails snatched the Jolt in the technical books department and Ruby on Rails 1.0 took the Jolt in Web Development Tools. The framework was contending with JBoss 4.x, Backbase, Coldfusion, and the Zend Studio while the book took out Practical Common Lisp, Wicked Cool Java, and others. [...]
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