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Packt Publishing, whose Open Source CMS awards we covered in considerable depth recently (here, here and here), is a book publishing company who specialize in producing books by and for IT professionals.

Their latest title deals with the eZ Publish Web CMS product, and provides a comprehensive guide to deployment and management of eZ Publish based projects, as well as general information and tips on Web CMS project-management.

With its Book Search feature, Google smugly drives home the point David Bercovich tried to make when he called the company “the world’s largest content management system.” (We totally called that, by the way.)

What could demonstrate that ambition more soundly than trying to index the world’s libraries?

But for those getting skittish about Google’s ever-blossoming ECM-savvy, there are always other alternatives.

So you’ve designed an awesome website packed full of nifty features, but it doesn’t seem to be loading fast enough on people’s browsers. What’s the deal?

The features used by most popular sites to make their pages appealing, such as extensive graphics, rich layout and various interactive web 2.0 functionalities have pushed browsers to their limits. The end result can lead to painfully slow loading times unless you’re optimizing your web sites.

O’Reilly Media’s High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders (US$ 29.99) should give you much-needed assistance on this topic.

What is better than a new e-book about Microsoft SharePoint 2007? A free new e-book about Microsoft SharePoint 2007.

Ireland-based Research and Markets just added a handy print guide to their digital cache.

Written by Principal Scientist Juha Lehikoinen of Nokia, Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age covers the strategic and business impact of mobile content.

Our dear friends at Packt Press have teamed with CIGNEX founder and CTO, Munwar Shariff, to deliver a no doubt highly practical manual for the full implementation of the Alfresco Open Source Enterprise CMS.

And Munwar is the man. He’s one we’d take CMS counsel from any day. With over 5 years of running CMS projects at CIGNEX and plenty more than that digging deep into software dev projects, Munwar brings a wealth of hands-on experience. This combined with the no-nonsense tradition at Packt Press, is sure to have produced one 356 page tome that is unlikely to waste your time.

With over 20 years of experience in writing about personal computers and electronics, when it came to writing a one-stop read on XHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript, Danny Goodman was a natural. He actually came up with the idea when he couldn’t find a good source to use for his own consulting and development work. If it doesn’t exist, create it, right? And with that came O’Reilly’s newest release, Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, Third Edition; A Comprehensive Resource for XHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript.

Don’t know where to start with Drupal 5? Confused about whether or not you are using Drupal to it fullest? Don’t want to hands-on train the deodorant deficient newbie in the next cubicle? No worries, put your order in for the April 2007 release of Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk and Matt Westgate.