Jolt Awards
Jolt Awards Feature Articles
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 Calendar
Categories, schedule, and submission details for 2012 Jolt Awards
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The Annual Award for Best Testing Products
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
Jolt Awards Update: Change and Configuration Management Category
Nominations are being accepted
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
Events of Interest
November 27-29. San Francisco,CA. WebRTC Conference and Expo
December 4-7, Burlingame, CA. AnDevCon IV
December 10-14, Orlando, FL. Visual Studio Live
Febrary 21, 2013. San Diego, CA. Hadoop Innovation Summit
February 22-24, 2013. Los Angeles, CA. SCALE 11x
February 25-March 1, 2013. Montreal, Canada. ConFoo
March 3-6, 2013. San Francisco, CA. SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference
March 18-21, 2013. San Jose, CA. GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2013
March 25-28, 2013. Boston, MA. EclipseCon
April 8-10, 2013. Cambridge, MA. Big Data TechCon
April 8-12, 2013. Austin, TX. Xamarin Evolve 2013
April 16-17, 2013. Bellevue, WA. Cloud & Big Data Conference
May 28-30, 2013. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
April 22-25, 2013. San Jose, CA. DESIGN West and Embedded Systems Conference
June 18-20, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
October 1-3, 2013. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
Videos of Recent Events
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
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