Explanation of jolt Awards

According to the official website of the jolt awards, the 19th Award List has been announced recently. Among the 13 awards, each prize has one jolt award and two Production Efficiency Awards. A total of over 300 nominations were selected, and 65 were shortlisted. The final winners are listed as follows:

• Jolt honor Hall: compuware devpartner
• General Library
  • Jolt Awards: adrenaline junkies and template zombies: understanding patterns of project behavior)
  • Productivity Award: emergent design: the evolutionary nature of Professional Software Development (the Chinese version of this book was introduced by the People's post and telecommunications press Turing); intellectual property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to protecting code
• Technical Library
  • Jolt Award: Real World Haskell (introduced by Tsinghua University Press)
  • Production Efficiency Award: High Performance MYSQL: optimization, backups, replication, and more; programming in Scala
• Change management and configuration management tools
  • Jolt Awards: openmake Meister
  • Productivity Award: accurev; Change Manager
• Database engines and data tools
  • Jolt Awards: Postgres plus
  • Production Efficiency Award: Aqua data studio; vertica analytic Database
• Design and modeling tools
  • Jolt Awards: blueprint requirements center
  • Productivity Award: Raven; screen effecect
• Development Environment
  • Jolt Award: altova missionkit
  • Productivity Award: JBuilder 2008; resharper 4.1
• Enterprise Tools
  • Jolt Awards: mindtouch deki
  • Production Efficiency Award: agile platform; zenoss Core
• Class Libraries, frameworks, and components
  • Jolt Awards: componentone studio for Silverlight
  • Productivity Award: Essential Studio Enterprise Edition; threading building blocks library 2.1
• Mobile devices and web development tools
  • Jolt Awards: Mite
  • Productivity Award: Adobe Device Central; netbeans ide
• Project management tools
  • Jolt Awards: Pivotal Tracker
  • Productivity Award: rally enterprise; scrumworks pro
• Security Tools
  • Jolt Award: parasoft Application Security Solution
  • Production Efficiency Award: guardit; intrust for Databases
• Test Tool
  • Jolt grand prize: easyb
  • Production Efficiency Award: compuware devpartner studio; sonar
• Utility
  • Jolt Awards: httpwatch
  • Productivity Awards: dottrace; javarebel

Liu Jiang, editor-in-chief of Turing, commented on the jolt award on his blog:

Jolt claims that the award has been called by many other media as an Oscar for the software industry. It makes sense that the software industry does not seem to have any other similar general awards with a wide impact, it has a long history and has been stuck to the present.

However, you must note that this award was awarded by a selection committee and you have to pay for it. Commercial factors and "Board Design" issues (an anti-pattern, see the book anti-pattern published by Turing) exist.

In fact, as of today, the Book Award is truly valuable in general. (The second is the few website and Hall of Fame Awards .) If there is a slight deviation between the winners in the last few years, there are basically not many classic books missing over the past decade (the selection in the early years is particularly accurate), and the reference value is still very large, it can be used as a benchmark in the technical library field.

The official jolt awards website provides a brief introduction of the process from nominate, shortlisted, and final selection:

What information should I submit during the nomination??

Contact information, category, subclass, supplemental product information (optional), competitive product advantages, costs.

How was the shortlisted list determined?

The judges will evaluate the application form, submitted supplementary materials, product influence, their familiarity with the product, online review, peer review, and information provided on the website. We strongly recommend that you submit a 5-minute Flash video, PowerPoint, or webinar at the same time during the nomination to give a Key introduction to the core features of the product.

How is the final award list determined?

The judges will not only consider some typical standards (productivity, innovation, return on investment, quality, etc.), but also strive to find industry-leading products. The award-winning products are widely used, simple and feature-rich, which has an impact on the industry or solves a problem that has existed for a long time and has been avoided by other products or books.

Here we can see the list of previous jolt awards.