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Kentico (news, site) offers a manual for its Web CMS to help beginners get the most from their sites.

O’Reilly Media’s got another book for you.

As you probably know, performance plays a critical part in a website’s journey to success. This doesn’t bode well for sites that are bogged down in Web applications that push browsers to the brink with heavy doses of rich content and Ajax.

In Even Faster Web Sites, author Steve Souders, Web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides techniques and advice for improving your site’s performance under three different categories:

• JavaScript-Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more.
• Network-Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster.
• Browser-Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.

Even Faster Web Sites also contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas. Pick up your own copy here and get on your way to faster load and response times.

2009 is bringing big things to eZ Systems, the content management solution provider. Not only are they turning 10 this year, they are hosting the 7th annual eZ Conference and the annual eZ Awards which will be partially geared towards celebrating ten years in the WCM world.

Always wanted to write a cool, customized Alfresco app, but didn’t know where to start? Put your worries to rest. There is now a way to learn all things related to Alfresco Enterprise CMS customization. You can even teach yourself how to roll your very own REST API — it’s all in the book.

Alfresco development and customization secrets are revealed in Alfresco Developer Guide, a new book from Packt about customizing Document Management and Content Management capabilities on the Alfresco platform — with actions, Web scripts, Web forms, workflows and more.

Despite the implied vulnerabilities, whether they be security or implementation-related, Web 2.0 technologies can help to redefine the Web as a platform to harness collective intelligence as well as to establish enterprise 2.0 applications that can improve user experiences, knowledge sharing and collaboration, and increase employee productivity.

Open Text is certainly setting their goals higher, but I suppose that’s the point of a strategy.

Confronting the demands of the marketplace, Open Text will begin to provide a comprehensive set of new solutions. Looking beyond the traditional silo approach in which businesses address each application individually, Open Text has instead decided to take a “holistic approach for their Enterprise 2.0 aspirations”.