The Jolt Awards are awards in the software industry.

Since 1990, the Dr. Dobb

Dr. Dobb's Journal

Dr. Dobb's Journal was a monthly journal published in the United States by CMP Technology. It covered topics aimed at computer programmers. DDJ was the first regular periodical focused on microcomputer software, rather than hardware. It later became a monthly section within the periodical...

's Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient.

Jolt Cola

Jolt Cola

Jolt Cola was a carbonated soft drink produced by Wet Planet Beverages. It was created in 1985 by C. J. Rapp as a highly caffeinated cola. It is targeted towards students and young professionals, stressing its use as a stimulant in a similar manner as energy drinks...

 sponsors the awards presentation.

Books

Jolt Excellence Award: Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, by Jez Humble and David Farley

Jolt Productivity Award: Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites, by Matthew A. Russell

Jolt Productivity Award: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages, by Bruce Tate

Bruce Tate

Bruce Tate, an independent consultant, is a pundit and writer of books about software. He is a father of two who is a kayaker and mountain biker in his spare time....

Jolt Finalist: The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way, by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser

Jolt Finalist: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1, by Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms...

Jolt Finalist: Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler

-Online presentations:* at RailsConf 2006* at JAOO 2006* at QCon London 2007 * at QCon London 2008 * at ThoughtWorks Quarterly Technology Briefing, October 2008...

 with Rebecca Parsons

Books

Jolt Excellence Award: Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden

Jolt Productivity Award: Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners, by Warren D. Sande and Carter Sande

Jolt Productivity Award: SDLC 3.0: Beyond a Tacit Understanding of Agile, by Mark Kennaley

General

Jolt Winner: Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Andrew Oram

Productivity Winner: Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management by Johanna Rothman

Productivity Winner: The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun is an American author and speaker.Scott Berkun studied computer science, philosophy, and design at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003 on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0, Windows, MSN, and in roles including usability engineer, lead program manager, and UI...

Productivity Winner: Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard

Technical

Jolt Winner: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul M. Duvall

Productivity Winner: xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros

Productivity Winner: Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL by Lynn Beighley

Productivity Winner: The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez

General

Jolt Winner: Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game by Alistair Cockburn

Alistair Cockburn

Alistair Cockburn is one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development, helping write theManifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001 and the agile PM Declaration of Interdependence in 2005...

Productivity Winner: Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Software Projects Back on Track by E. M. Bennatan

Productivity Winner: Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World by Venkat Subramaniam

Productivity Winner: Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art: The Black Art Demystified by Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell

Steven C. McConnell is an author of many software engineering textbooks including Code Complete, Rapid Development, and Software Estimation...

Technical

Jolt Winner: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D by Brett McLaughlin

Productivity Winner: Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis

Diomidis Spinellis

Diomidis D. Spinellis is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books Code Reading and Code Quality.Spinellis holds an MEng degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both from Imperial College London...

Productivity Winner: Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott W. Ambler

Productivity Winner: CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland