Each year, the Jolt Product Excellence Awards are presented to companies whose products have “jolted” the industry by making the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. Dr. Dobb’s Journal presented this year’s awards last week at the 18th Annual Jolt Awards at SD West in Santa Clara.

One Jolt Award—the top prize—and three Productivity Awards are given in each of sixteen, categories, including books, project management tools, development environments, and collaboration tools, among others. Competition was steep this year, so we’re especially proud of the recognition we received. The winners were…

O’Reilly Radar won the Jolt Award for best Web Site/Developer Network and Beautiful Code won the Jolt for the best book in the General Books category. Productivity awards went to Myths of Innovation (General Books), Head First SQL (Technical Books), and Safari Books Online (Web Sites/Developer Networks).

Accepting the beautiful, lucite-encased, Blue Raspberry Jolt Energy Drinks (a first-ever variance from the classic Jolt Cola for the awards), was Andy Oram, senior editor and O’Reilly Radar blogger (photo below). All-in-all, it was a good evening for O’Reilly.