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Title: Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide by Bill English, Olga Londer, Todd Bleeker, Shawn Shell, Stephen Cawood ISBN: 0-321-19444-6 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Book needs more focus. Maybe OK for a beginner.
Comment: First, a note on my background, since it may have increased my frustration with this book. I have been developing (ASP/COM, ASP.NET) for a long time, and have built numerous custom DB-driven content mgmt systems from scratch. So, I was hoping for a quick introduction of the CMS paradigm this product uses, followed by specific guidance on how to implement realistic sites with the product. Not what I got. This material might be more helpful to a traditional "webmaster" role (who knows just a little C#), but if you already understand concepts like templates and publishing workflows the book wastes a lot of your time.
The book does not need to be 1000 pages long:
- Code examples are often repeated throughout a section with only one line changed.
- Entire blocks of text are clearly copied and pasted from one section to another.
- The book spends inordinate time on topics that are not relevant to using the product, for example the material in Chapter 4 on project mgmt.
My other major complaint is that it is written more in the style of a manual (e.g. Now we are going to list all the properties and methods of a channel. Next, we do the same for a template.) rather than following a flow of how a site actually gets built and the types of pages one really needs to develop. Why is it not until page 853 that the topic of "what about content that is already in SQL Server somewhere" comes up? That is something one deals with all the time on real development projects!
Admittedly, some of my disappointment is more with the product itself rather than just the book. MS-CMS is apparently intended as a replacement for sites that just add new HTML pages whenever they add content. I thought the age of sites like that, where the data was not part of the overall enterprise systems, had ended several years ago.
Rating: 5
Summary: Keep a copy handy to every employee who uses MCMS
Comment: Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide is a good enough title for this book, but given the thorough coverage, accessible writing style and excellent organization, it could just as easily been have been called the Content Management Server 2002 Encyclopedia.
The value in this book is it's breadth of coverage and succinctness of the explanation of the topic. The general approach of the book is to give a general explanation of a topic and then to provide specific instructions with examples. It is possible to reference a particular topic and use the information in it without having to read a large part of the book.
The level of technical expertise required of the reader varies depending on the topic being covered. Hence it's possible for users at varying technical levels to make use of the same book, depending on what information they need. It's a remarkable accomplishment and I'd recommend having copies available to all employees who work on your MCMS 2002 site in any capacity.
Rating: 4
Summary: A must have resource but...
Comment: There is a lot of excellent information in this book. I was just disappointed that there wasn't more depth in the areas of interest to me. I wanted more details, like when it comes to an upgrade path from CMS2001 - what are the limitations(for example: is there a maximum database size or channel count that the upgrade tool can handle?) or gotchas? What things have changed? However, there were only three pages on upgrading from CMS2001 in this 1000 page book.
As another example, there was some interesting sample code in the Tips & techniques section, but they didn't give a complete usage scenario of the bit that interested me, so I wasn't sure how to implement the sample that interested me.
I must say that I was impressed that this book was so thick yet not padded with the usual repetitive and excess verbiage. It is all good content.
This book is the most comprehensive resource I've found. I've been going back and forth between MSDN articles and the documentation that comes with CMS and this book covers everything, especially planning, much better. However, it still could have had more!
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Title: Building Solutions with Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 by Clayton C. Peddy, Derek Armentrout ISBN: 0735618542 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 by Don Jones, Mark D. Scott ISBN: 0789727633 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 25 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server by Robert Ferguson ISBN: 0789725703 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Content Management Bible by Bob Boiko ISBN: 076454862X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: BizTalk Server 2002 Design and Implementation by Xin Chen ISBN: 1590590341 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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