SEBASTOPOL, California - November 1, 2011
Safari® Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media and business professionals, announced that 13 out of the top 15 developer titles which were recognized at the 2011 Jolt Awards in September are exclusive to Safari Books Online's digital library.

The Jolt Awards are presented by Dr. Dobb’s Journal, the leading resource for the professional software development community, to showcase products that have "jolted" the IT industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient.

"We are very proud of the fact that our online content is not only beneficial to our subscribers, but that it wins awards among professionals who actually utilize the content day in and day out," said Paige Mazzoni, vice president of marketing, Safari Books Online.

If you were to purchase all of these books (either in print or as ebooks) it would set you back several hundred dollars; however, they are all included with a subscription to Safari Books Online, along with more than 17,000 other great books and videos.

Here's a list of the winners and honorable mentions currently available in Safari Books Online:

• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, by Jez Humble and David Farley
• The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way, by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
• Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites, by Matthew A. Russell
• Arduino Cookbook, by Michael Margolis
• CLR via C#, 3rd Edition, by Jeffrey Richter
• Domain-Specific Languages, by Martin Fowler with Rebecca Parsons
• Data Analysis with Open Source Tools, by Philipp K. Janert
• Eloquent Ruby, by Russ Olsen
• High Performance JavaScript, by Nicholas C. Zakas
• Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites, by Martin L. Abbott; Michael T. Fisher
• The Software IP Detective’s Handbook: Measurement, Comparison, and Infringement Detection, by Bob Zeidman
• The Rails 3 Way, by Obie Fernandez

And what about the other three books? The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1, by Donald E. Knuth is coming to Safari Books Online soon, but Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages, by Bruce A. Tate and The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with Rspec, Cucumber, and Friends are from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, who aren’t currently available on Safari Books Online (though we’d love to have them!).

About Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com) is an on-demand digital library that delivers expert content in both book and video form from the world’s leading authors in technology and business. Technology professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training.

Safari Books Online offers a range of product mixes and pricing programs for organizations, government agencies and individuals. Subscribers have access to thousands of books, training videos and prepublication manuscripts in one fully searchable database from publishers like Cisco Press, Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, IBM Press, Adobe Press, FT Press, Apress, Manning, New Riders, Apple Certified, Course Technology, Splash Media and dozens more. For more information about Safari Books Online, please visit us online.

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