From: http://www.joltawards.com/2006

Winners will be announced at SD West in Santa Clara.

17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards
Finalists

 

Books (Practical/General Developer Interest)

Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (Addison-Wesley) by Alistair Cockburn
Catastrophe Disentanglement (Addison-Wesley) by E. M. Bennatan
Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Apress) by Eric Sink
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
Software Creativity 2.0 (DeveloperDotStar) by Robert L. Glass
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Microsoft Press) by Steve McConnell
Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (Dorset House) by Gerald M. Weinberg

 

Books (Technical)

Code Quality (Addison-Wesley) by Diomidis Spinellis
How to Break Web Software (Addison-Wesley) by M. Andrews, J. Whittaker
Java Concurrency in Practice (Addison-Wesley) by Brian Goetz et al
Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Chad Fowler
Refactoring Databases (Addison-Wesley) by Scott W. Ambler and P. J. Sadalage
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (O'Reilly) by B. McLaughlin, G. Pollice and D. West
Ruby Cookbook (O'Reilly) by Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson
CSS: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly) by David Sawyer McFarland

 

Change and Configuration Management

AccuRev 4.5 with AccuWorkflow (Accurev)
AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
Automated Build Studio (AutomatedQA)
FLEXnet Connect (Macrovision)
Perforce SCM (Perforce)
Team Foundation Server (Microsoft Corporation)
CA Wily Introscope ChangeDetector (CA / Wily Technology)

 

Collaboration Tools

Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
Code Collaborator (Smart Bear Software)
Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
Sugar Professional (SugarCRM)
TeamCity (JetBrains)

 

Database Engines and Data Tools

Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
MarkLogic Server (Mark Logic)
SQL Anywhere (Sybase iAnywhere)
SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)

 

Design and Modeling

Compuware OptimalJ (Compuware)
Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio (Corticon Technologies)
MagicDraw UML (No Magic)
RAVEN (Ravenflow)
stpBA Storyboarding for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (stpsoft ltd.)
Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite (DataDirect Technologies)

 

Development Environments

EiffelStudio Open Source Edition (Eiffel Software)
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
IronPython (Microsoft)
Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework (Microsoft)
NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research)

 

Enterprise Tools

Cape Clear ESB Platform (Cape Clear Software)
Liferay Portal (Liferay)
Mule (MuleSource)
Appistry EAF (Appistry)
Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pentaho)
TeamCity (JetBrains)

 

Libraries, Frameworks and Components

JViews (ILOG)
NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)
telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms (Telerik)
.NET Framework 3.0 (Microsoft)
Intel Threading Building Blocks for Linux (Intel)
Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework (Microsoft)
The Mono Project (Novell)

 

Mobile Development

AccuSPEECH (Vangard Voice Systems)
Carbide .c++ Professional Edition (Nokia)
Crossfire (AppForge)
Qtopia Greenphone (Trolltech)
NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.5 and Sun Java Wireless Tookit 2.2 (Sun Microsystems)
Qtopia (Trolltech)

 

Project Mangement Tools

6th Sense Analytics (6th Sense Analytics)
DevPlan (TechExcel)
Rally Enterprise (Rally Software)
TargetProcess (TargetProcess)
Teamwork (Open Lab)
V1: Agile Enterprise (VersionOne)

 

Security

AppScan (Watchfire)
beSTORM (Beyond Security)
DevInspect (S.P.I. Dynamics)
Fortify Defender (Fortify Software)
Fortify Source Code Analysis (SCA) (Fortify Software)
Metasploit Framework (Metasploit)

 

Automated Testing Tools

AgitarOne (Agitar Software)
CodePro AnalytiX (Instantiations)
Mindreef SOAPscope (Mindreef)
Parasoft Jtest (Parasoft)
Parasoft SOAtest (Parasoft)
TestComplete (AutomatedQA)

 

Bug and Defect Tracking Tools

JIRA (Atlassian Software Systems)
OnTime 2007 Hosted (Axosoft)
Software Planner Professional (Pragmatic Software Co.)
TestTrack Studio (Seapine Software)

 

Utilities

Adobe Captivate 2 (Adobe Systems)
AutoPatch (SourceForge)
ElectricCommander (Electric Cloud)
TEKchecker and StyleWriter (ClearSpecs Enterprises)
TextMate (Macromates)
VMware Lab Manager (VMware)

 

Web Development

Adobe Flex 2 (Adobe Systems)
IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
Kapow Mashup Server (Kapow Technologies)
LignUp Communications Application Server (LignUp)
Mindreef SOAPscope Server (Mindreef)
NetBeans Visual Web Pack (Sun Microsystems)

 

Web Sites/Developer Networks

CM Crossroads (CMC Media)
IBM developerWorks (IBM)
Sun Developer Network (Sun Microsystems)
Koders.com (Koders)
Krugle (Krugle)
Makezine.com (O'Reilly)
The Code Project (The Code Project)