Jolt Awards
Jolt Awards Feature Articles
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The best testing tools of the past year
Jolt Awards 2013: The Best Programmer Libraries
The best programmer libraries of the past year
Jolt Awards: Coding Tools
The best IDEs and coding tools of the past year
Jolt Calendar
Categories, schedule, and submission details for 2013 Jolt Awards
2012 Jolt Awards: Mobile Tools
The best mobile development tools
Jolt Awards: The Best Books
Six notable books that every serious programmer should read.
Jolt Awards: Utilities
The Jolt judges combed through more than 40 products to find the very best developer utilities. We now reveal the Jolt Award winner and the runners-up.
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The Annual Award for Best Testing Products
The Shrinking Expanding World of CI
Continuous integration is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance as continuous delivery (and its sidekick, DevOps) begin to find adoption in many enterprises. Simultaneously, the number of viable CI packages is shrinking quickly.
2012 Jolt Award Winners for Third-Party Libraries
2012 Jolt Award Winners for Third-Party Libraries
Jolt Awards News
Akka 2.0 Toolkit and Runtime Released For Scala Or Java
Potential programming boost for concurrency, fault-tolerance, and scalability?
Jolt Awards: Schedule Being Updated
The existing Jolt Awards schedule will be undergoing changes
CollabNet Intros CollabNet Subversion Edge
Distribution combines Subversion, Apache, and ViewVC with Web-based management interface
Pervasive Enhances DataRush with Scalable Analytics
Highly parallel platform leverages multicore systems
HTML5 App Framework Announced
Sensha Touch targets mobile platforms
NetBeans 6.9 Released
First NetBeans release under Oracle; focus on JavaFX
Cloud-Based Application Security Service Unveiled
Veracode enhances is automated static binary and dynamic web application testing service
CollabNet, HP Team Up on ALM
TeamForge integration with Quality Center provides requirements-to-release ALM
OpenCL 1.1 Spec Released
Release includes C++ wrapper API for use with OpenCL
Amazon Announces Availability of Storage Tools
Focus is on easy S3 import/export
Events of Interest
May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference
May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)
June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon
June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers
June 13. San Francisco, CA. HBaseCon
June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013
July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013
July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
Videos of Past Events
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
Best of the Web
First C Compiler Now on Github
The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU
All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
How to Select a PaaS Partner
Eventually, the vast majority of Web applications will run on a platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, vendor's infrastructure. To help sort out the options, we sent out a matrix with more than 70 decision points to a variety of PaaS providers.
