Rails and the Agile book win top honors at Jolt awards

Posted by marcel March 16, 2006 @ 04:53 AM

Tonight at the Software Development Jolt Awards, Rails won the best web development tool award while the canonical Rails book, Agile Web Development with Rails, won for best technical book. They find themselves both in fine company.

Both DHH and Dave Thomas share their reactions.

The full list of winners can be found here.

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  1. Mzhang.cn on 16 Mar 11:03:

    Congratulations!

  2. Gregory Bluvshteyn on 16 Mar 14:55:

    Wary well earned indeed.

  3. Samuel Figueroa on 22 Mar 13:39:

    Hey, I’m only just getting started with Rails. But its already making my life easier. I had my thoughts about buying that book. But after reading the award news, I can’t wait for Amazon to get it to my door step.

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