Dr. Dobb's Jolt Awards Articles

Jolt Awards 2013: The Best Programmer Libraries

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:49:00 -0400

The best programmer libraries of the past year

Jolt Awards: Coding Tools

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:36:00 -0500

The best IDEs and coding tools of the past year

Jolt Calendar

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 06:52:00 -0500

Categories, schedule, and submission details for 2013 Jolt Awards

2012 Jolt Awards: Mobile Tools

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 03:33:00 -0400

The best mobile development tools

Jolt Awards: The Best Books

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:19:00 -0400

Six notable books that every serious programmer should read.

Jolt Awards: Utilities

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:45:00 -0400

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

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400

The Annual Award for Best Testing Products

The Shrinking Expanding World of CI

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:43:00 -0500

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

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:28:00 -0500

2012 Jolt Award Winners for Third-Party Libraries

The Complete Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:24:00 -0500

A compendium of Jolt Award winners through the years with links to Dr. Dobb's editorial coverage where applicable

Jolt Awards: Coding Tools

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:30:00 -0500

Going to the very heart of the developer's toolbox, we select four outstanding tools.

IDEs Are Dead. Long Live the IDE!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:45:00 -0500

How will developers' favorite working environments evolve in a cloud-based, post-PC world?

The Best of 2011

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:17:00 -0500

The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful consideration by our staff

Jolt Awards for Design, Architecture, and Planning Tools

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:29:00 -0400

Modeling tools, design products, and requirements management software receive their due, with this year's winners showing products of wide range and imagination

Jolt Awards for Books: The Rest of the Best

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:25:00 -0400

Jolt Awards: The Best Books

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:23:00 -0400

The six best books every developer should read

[Dude|Sir], That's Not Programming

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:53:00 -0400

The art of programming: easy to enter, but hard to master.

Moving Quickly To Java 7

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:41:00 -0400

Unlike Java 6, where wait-and-see was good enough, Java 7 looks like a quick upgrade

Jolt Awards: Security Tools

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:13:00 -0500

This year's Jolt awards in the security category show that this segment is very much alive, with new tools that show in how many different ways threats can arise and be parried.

Jolt Awards: Utilities Category

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:59:00 -0500

Balsamiq Mockups version 2.0.10, Camtasia, and VMware Workstation shine

Jolt Product Excellence Award: Change and Configuration Management

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:49:02 -0500

FinalBuilder 7 Professional (VSoft Technologies Pty Ltd)

Jolt Productivity Award #1: Change and Configuration Management Tools

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:49:01 -0500

Embarcadero DB Change Manager XE

Jolt Productivity Award #2: Change and Configuration Management Tools

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:49:00 -0500

AccuRev AgileCycle Suite

Jolt Product Excellence Award: Testing and Debugging

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:46:02 -0500

AutomatedQA TestComplete 8 (SmartBear Software)

Jolt Productivity Award #2: Testing and Debugging

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:46:01 -0500

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