今年的 Jolt 大奖
一年一度的Jolt大奖将在下个月15日颁布，下面给出最后角逐的：
Books General
• Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville (O'Reilly)
• Best Software Writing by Joel Spolsky (Apress)
• Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel (Morgan Kaufmann)
• Prefactoring by Ken Pugh (O'Reilly)
• Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Karl Fogel (O'Reilly)
• The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun (O'Reilly)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Books: Technical
• Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas et al. (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-Wesley)
• Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (Apress)
• Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts Technology and Design by Thomas Erl (Prentice Hall)
• Why Programs Fail, First Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging by Andreas Zeller (Morgan Kaufmann)
• Wicked Cool Java: Code Bits, Open-Source Libraries, and Project Ideas by Brian D. Eubanks (No Starch Press)
Enterprise Project Management
• Corticon Business Rules Management 4.0 (Corticon)
• JBoss 2 Portal (JBoss)
• ProVision Enterprise 5.0 (Proforma)
• Rally 5.6 (Rally Software Development)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft)
• WelcomRisk 2.6 (Welcom)
Database Engines and Data Tools
• Attensity Discover 2.7 (Attensity)
• Berkeley DB 4.4 (Sleepycat Software)
• EnterpriseDB 2005 (EnterpriseDB)
• Google Maps API 2005 (Google)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft)
• MySQL 5.0 (MySQL)
Defect Tracking, Change, and Configuration Management
• Automated Build Studio 1.7 (AutomatedQA)
• CollabNet Enterprise Edition 2005 (CollabNet)
• ElectricAccelerator 3.0 (Electric Cloud)
• FogBugz 4.0 (Fog Creek)
• Guiffy SureMerge 7.0 (Guiffy Software)
• JIRA 3.4 (Atlassian Software)
• Perforce SCM 2005 (Perforce)
Design Tools and Modeling
• Altova UModel 2005 (Altova)
• Borland Together 2006 for Eclipse (Borland)
• Compuware OptimalJ 4.0 (Compuware)
• Enterprise Architect 6.0 (Sparx Systems)
• Lattix LDM 2.0 (Lattix)
• MagicDraw UML 10.0 (No Magic)
• MindManager Pro 6.0 (Mindjet)
Development Environments
• Borland Developer Studio 2006 (Borland)
• CodeRush w/ Refactor! Pro 1.1 (Developer Express)
• Eclipse SDK 3.1 (Eclipse.org)
• IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 (JetBrains)
• Komodo 3.5 (ActiveState)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft)
Libraries, Frameworks, and Components
• .NET Framework 2.0 (Microsoft)
• Dundas Chart for .NET 5.0 (Dundas Software)
• Qt 4.0 (Trolltech)
• Spring Framework 1.2.6 (SpringFramework.org)
• TopCoder Software Component Libraries 5.0 (TopCoder)
• U3 SDK 2005 (U3)
Mobile Development Tools
• Carbide.c++ Express (Nokia)
• Crossfire 5.6 (AppForge)
• Flash Lite 2.0 (Adobe)
• mWorks platform (mFoundry)
• NetBeans IDE 4.1 (Sun Microsystems)
• Qtopia (Trolltech)
Quality Project Management
• CollabNet Enterprise Edition with Project Dashboard/Task Management 2005 (CollabNet)
• protexIP/development 3.0 (Black Duck)
• QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.1 (Compuware)
• Rally 5.6 (Rally Software Development)
• SilkCentral Test Manager 8.1 (Segue)
• TargetProcess Suite 1.4 (TargetProcess)
Security Tools
• CodeAssure 2.0 (Secure Software)
• DevInspect & SecureObjects 1.5 (SPI Dynamics)
• DevPartner SecurityChecker 1.0 (Compuware)
• Elemental Compliance System 1.4 (Elemental)
• Fortify Security Tester 1.0 (Fortify)
• SQL Backup Pro Edition 2005 (Red Gate Software)
Testing Tools
• Agitator 3.0 (Agitar Software)
• AQtime 4.7 (AutomatedQA)
• Clover 1.3 (Cenqua)
• Parasoft Jtest 7.0 (Parasoft)
• TestComplete 4.0 (AutomatedQA)
• VMTN Subscription 2005 (VMware)
Utilities
• Camtasia Studio 3.0 (TechSmith)
• DevPartner Studio 8 (Compuware)
• dotTrace 1.1 (JetBrains)
• Fog Creek Copilot 1.2 (Fog Creek Software)
• Openmake 6.4 (Catalyst Systems)
• ReSharper 1.5 (JetBrains)
• SnagIt 7.2 (TechSmith)
Web Development Tools
• Backbase Standard Edition 3.1 (Backbase)
• ColdFusion MX7 (Adobe)
• DevPartner Studio 8 (Compuware)
• JBoss Application Server 4x (JBoss)
• Macromedia Studio 8 2005 (Adobe)
• Rails 1.0 (rubyonrails.org)
• Zend Studio - Enterprise Edition 5.0 (Zend)
最终谁的奖谁得不到，我想我不会很在乎。我是通过这个奖项的颁布，我能掌握业界的动态，得知比较先进的思想，这个奖对我的意义也就在此了~
再叹一次，什么名单里能有China的痕迹... ...