Continuous Integration,
from Pearson, Wins Jolt Product Excellence Award
Jolt Productivity Awards for The
Rails Way and xUnit Test Patterns
NEW YORK (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) March 11, 2008 --
Pearson Technology Group’s Addison-Wesley
Professional today announced that three of its books were winners of the
18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards, including
top prize in the Technical Books category for Continuous
Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by
Paul Duvall with Steve Matyas and Andrew Glover.
The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez, and xUnit Test Patterns:
Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros, were also recognized in
the Technical Books category with Jolt Productivity Awards.
Safari Books Online received the Jolt Productivity Award for Web
Sites/Developer Networks. Pearson, along with O’Reilly
Media, Inc., co-founded Safari Books Online in July 2001. Click here for
more information on Safari:
www.Informit.com/safaripass
Known as the “Oscars”
of the software development industry, the Jolt Awards were announced
during the annual Software Development
West 2008 Conference and Expo (http://www.sdexpo.com/).
Video interviews recorded with award winners Duvall, Glover, Meszaros
and other leading authors will soon be available as part of the Pearson OnSoftware
podcast series. To subscribe, please use these XML links or search
in iTunes: (Informit) http://www.informit.com/podcasts/index_rss.aspx?c=7;
(iTunes video): http://www.podcastingforacause.com/onsoft.xml;
(iTunes audio): http://www.podcastingforacause.com/onsoft_audio.xml
“Pearson is honored by this recognition at the
18th annual Jolt Awards and we extend hearty
congratulations to those authors whose talent and hard work have clearly
resulted in important contributions to the software development
community,” said Pearson Technology Group’s
Vice President and Publisher Paul Boger. “We
also thank the Jolt judges and Dr. Dobb’s
Journal for their tireless efforts to illuminate the best tools and
resources for developers.”
“Receiving the Jolt Product Excellence Award
in the technical book category is a great honor. Every day I see the
practice of Continuous Integration improving how developers deliver
working software more rapidly, and it is most gratifying that the Jolt
judges have helped to raise this awareness throughout the community,”
Duvall said. “I also would like to thank my
editor and the production and marketing teams at Pearson who were truly
committed to creating an excellent book.”
In total, Pearson Technology Group had seven titles named as finalists
in the technical and general books categories (http://joltawards.com/finalists.html).
Finalists included:
For a complete list of all Jolt
Award categories and winners, please visit: http://www.joltawards.com/press/030608.htm
Stroustrup
Receives Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award
C++ creator and best-selling author Bjarne
Stroustrup was presented with the Dr.
Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award at the SD West
conference. In 2007, he participated in a series of Pearson video
interviews that are available on-demand via the below links:
(Due to their length, the preceding URLs may need to be copied/pasted
into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra
space if one exists.)
Please click here for more information on Bjarne
Stroustrup: http://www.informit.com/press/press_releases_detail.aspx?promo=136264
About the Authors
Paul M. Duvall is chief technology officer of Stelligent Incorporated,
an Agile consultancy and thought leader in helping development teams
create production-ready software. He is the author and coauthor of many
books, and actively blogs on http://testearly.com.
Stephen M. Matyas III is CIO of 5AM Solutions. Andrew Glover, president
of Stelligent Incorporated, is a frequent speaker at conferences
throughout North America, as well as author and coauthor of many books
and online articles. http://www.stelligent.com/
Gerard Meszaros is an Agile software development consultant, trainer,
author and conference speaker. He has been involved in numerous
award-winning large enterprise projects providing agile coaching,
project inception and test automation experience using technologies such
as Java, .Net and SAP. For more detailed information on his book, please
visit: http://xunitpatterns.com/index.html
Obie Fernandez is CTO/Founder of HashRocket, a boutique web consultancy
and product shop based in Jacksonville, Fla., and has more than 12 years
of experience as a software developer. As a former senior consultant at
ThoughtWorks, Fernandez specialized in complex custom enterprise
software projects. He hosts a well-read blog, www.obiefernandez.com,
and is the series editor for the Addison Wesley Professional Ruby
Series. (www.informit.com/ruby)
About Pearson Technology Group
With the most trusted and recognized brands in the computing arena,
Pearson Technology Group (PTG) is the world's leading publisher of books
and training materials focused on advancing the skills of technical,
business and professional computing consumers. It’s
home to such renowned publishing brands as Addison-Wesley Professional,
Adobe Press, Apple Certified, Cisco Press, New Riders Publishing,
Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall Professional, and Sams Publishing. PTG is
part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's
primary operations include Pearson Education, the Financial Times Group
and the Penguin Group. Learn more at www.pearson.com.
About Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com),
founded in 2001 as a joint venture of pre-eminent technology publishers
O'Reilly Media Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, is the leading
on-demand reference and learning platform delivering expert content from
the world's thought-leaders in business and technology innovation.
Safari offers the combined collections of O'Reilly Media, John Wiley &
Sons, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun
Microsystems Press, Wharton School Publishing, Microsoft Press,
lynda.com and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database.
IT professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and
creative professionals use Safari as their primary resource for
research, problem solving, learning and certification training.
Thousands of books, manuscripts, short topics, articles and
instructional video are available from expert authors, innovators and
thought leaders. Safari as an essential, always-on business tool is fast
changing the way corporate, academic and training organizations access
information and enables increasingly mobile workforces to get technical
and business reference resources anytime and from anywhere. Safari
offers a range of B2B product mixes and pricing programs for every sized
organization and a B2C product option for individual users.
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