Anthony L. Bierman

Buy this book today, June 19, 2008

I received a copy of Andrew Connell's new Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 book this week. As expected, Andrew's new book is excellent - well written with a ton of substantial content.

What I like about this book:

Chapter 5 dissects SharePoint's out-of-the-box MOSS 2007 Publishing Portal site definition. This chapter then covers how to create a Minimal Publishing Portal site definition which does not include the extraneous artifacts included in the somewhat bloated out-of-the-box version.

I particularly like… Read more

Great new SharePoint book by Ted and Dan, June 1, 2007

The SharePoint book that I have been waiting for the most has finally arrived. Back when I first heard that Ted Pattision and Daniel Larson were teaming up to write a SharePoint book, I got pretty excited. I knew these guys would have a knock-out book for SharePoint developers, and I'm happy to say I was right.

With this book, you will learn how to:

* Build application pages and site pages

* Develop and deploy reusable Web parts to enable customization and personalization

* Exploit Windows SharePoint APIs to deploy Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX components

* Use XML and Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) to create provisioning… Read more