O'Reilly Jolts the Industry--Head First Style

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O'Reilly Jolts the Industry--Head First Style
O'Reilly Books Receive Jolt Product Excellence Awards

Sebastopol, CA--"Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design" by Brett
McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, and David West received top honors--the highly
coveted Jolt--for best product in the "Technical Books" category at this
year's Jolt Awards ceremony.  Further honors were bestowed on O'Reilly
Media with the presentation of a Productivity Award for "CSS: The Missing
Manual" by David Sawyer McFarland in the same category. 

This marks the second time a "Head First" book has jolted the industry. In
2005, "Head First Design Patterns" by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman,
Bert Bates, and Kathy Sierra won the award for top book in the "General
Books" category. "CSS: The Missing Manual" is the first of O'Reilly's
bestselling Missing Manual series to make an appearance at the awards
ceremony.  

Each year, the Jolt Product Excellence Awards are presented to products
that have "jolted" the industry by making the task of creating software
faster, easier, and more efficient. CMP Technology's Dr. Dobb's Journal
presented this year's awards on March 21, 2007 at the 20th Software
Development Conference & Expo West.  One Jolt Award--the top prize--and
three Productivity Awards are given in each of seventeen categories,
including books, project management tools, development environments, 
and collaboration tools, among others.

The complete list of the 2007 Jolt winners can be found at:
http://www.joltawards.com/2007/

More information about O'Reilly's Jolt Award-winning books can be 
found at:

"Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design" (O'Reilly, November 2006,
US $44.99)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfobjects/index.html

"CSS: The Missing Manual" (O'Reilly, August 2006, US $34.99)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csstmm/


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