Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect – To help sort out the chaos of Internet services – #bookreview

Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect
Ryan Carter
(O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle)

In a digital world increasingly cluttered with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, Open APIs, and social networks, complexity quickly can get out of hand.

“It all starts,” Ryan Carter writes in his new book, “with a simple API that publishes somebody’s status to Facebook, sends a Tweet, or updates a contact in Salesforce. As you start to integrate more and more of these external services with your applications, trying to identify the tasks that one might want to perform when you’re surrounded by SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, GETs, PUTs, POSTs, and DELETEs, can be a real challenge.”

Indeed. But never fear, Mule ESB can ride to your rescue and connect you quickly and easily to the cloud. At least, that’s the marketing claim.

Some truly big-name users, it should be noted, are adding credibility to Mule’s claimed capabilities and usefulness as an Open Source integration platform. They include Adobe, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, J.P. Morgan, T-Mobile, Ericsson, Southwest Airlines, and Nestle, to mention just a few.

Meanwhile, riding Mule to the cloud is the central focus of this compact (105 pages), well-written get-started guide. Its author, Ryan Carter, is both a specialist in integration and APIs and “an appointed Mule champion” who contributes regularly to the MuleSoft community.

“Mule,” Carter points out, “is an integration platform that allows developers to connect applications together quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data regardless of the different technologies that the applications use. It is also at the core of CloudHub, an Integration Platform as a Service(IPaas). CloudHub allows you to integrate cross-cloud services, create new APIs on top of existing data sources, and integrate on-premise applications with cloud services.”

The book is structured so you start off by building a simple Mule application that will serve “as the base of our examples and introduce some core concepts for those unfamiliar with Mule.” Then Carter shows and illustrates how to “start taking advantage of Mule Cloud Connectors.” He includes numerous code examples, plus some screenshots and diagrams.

The book’s six chapters are:

1. Getting Started
2. Cloud Connectors
3. OAuth Connectivity
4. Configuration Management
5. Real-Time Connectivity
6. Custom Connectivity

Carter emphasizes: “Mule Cloud Connect offers a more maintainable way to work with APIs. Built on top of the Mule and CloudHub integration platforms, Cloud Connectors are service-specific clients that abstract away the complexities of transports and protocols. Many complex but common processes such as authorization and session management work without you having to write a single line of code. Although service-specific, Cloud Connectors all share a common and consistent interface to configure typical API tasks such as OAuth, WebHooks, and connection management. They remove the pain from working with multiple, individual client libraries.”

If Mule does not have a connector for a resource that you need, the book shows you how to create your own.

Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect can get you started on a beneficial ride of  discovery, and it can take you onto the trail that leads to solutions.

– Si Dunn

Learning Node – A good how-to guide for server-side Web development with Node.js – #programming #bookreview

Learning Node
Shelley Powers
(O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle)

 “Node is designed to be used for [server-side] applications that are heavy on input/output (I/O), but light on computation,” veteran Web technology author Shelley Powers notes in Learning Node, her ninth and newest how-to book from O’Reilly.

“Node.js,” she explains, “is a server-side technology that’s based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine. It’s a highly scalable system that uses asynchronous, event-driven I/O (input/output), rather than threads or separate processes. “It’s ideal for web applications that are frequently accessed but computationally simple.”

I’ve criticized some previous Node books (1) for assuming that all of their readers know a lot about Node.js and assorted programming languages and (2) for not giving enough step-by-step installation and start-up information.

Happily, Learning Node is well written, nicely illustrated with code samples and screen shots, and assumes only that you have some working familiarity with JavaScript. It gives a detailed overview of how to set up development environments in Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows 7. “Installation on a Mac should be similar to installation on Linux,” the author adds.

One caveat regarding code examples: “Most were tested in a Linux environment, but should work, as is, in any Node environment.”

The 374-page book has 16 chapters. The first five “cover both getting Node and the package manager (npm) installed , how to use them, creating your first applications, and utilizing modules.”

Shelley Powers notes that she incorporates “the use of the Express framework, which also utilizes the Connect middleware, throughout the book.” So if you have little or no experience with Express, you will need to pay attention to chapters 6 through 8. But: “After these foundation chapters, you can skip around a bit,” she adds.

Some of the additional chapters cover key/value pairs, using MongoDb with Node, and working with Node’s relational database bindings.

Two chapters get into specialized application use. “Chapter 12 focuses purely on graphics and media access, including how to provide media for the new HTML5 video element, as well as working with PDF documents and Canvas,” the author points out. “Chapter 13 covers the very popular Sockets.io module, especially for working with the new web socket functionality.”

The final chapters are crucial, particularly if you want to move from learning Node to working in a production environment. Chapter 14 covers “Testing and Debugging Node Applications.” Chapter 15 “covers issues of security and authority…it is essential that you spend time in this chapter before you roll a Node application out for general use.”

Meanwhile, Chapter 16 describes “how to prepare your application for production use, including how to deploy your Node application not only on your own system , but also in one of the cloud servers that are popping up to host Node applications.”

Learning Node is both an excellent overall introduction to Node.js and a how-to reference guide that you will want to keep close at hand as you develop and deploy Node applications.

– Si Dunn

For more information: Node.js, paperback, Kindle

Enterprise Games – How to build a better 21st-century business with game mechanics – #business #bookreview

Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business
Michael Hugos
(O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle)

Can 21^st-century games and gamers attack and destroy the top-down, assembly-line thinking that still keeps many businesses firmly rooted in the previous century?

 Michael Hugos’ compelling new book makes a solid case that they can. Game mechanics, he argues, can reshape how workers work, how organizations are managed, and how business goals get accomplished in today’s volatile global economy.

“Games and the associated technology we currently refer to as video games offer us more than just a diversion and escape from difficult times,” contends Hugos. “They offer us field-tested models to use for organizing companies and performing complex and creative tasks. They offer clear and compelling examples for how people can work together, build their careers, and earn a living in rapidly changing and unpredictable environments.”

Hugos, principal at the Center for Systems Innovation, offers his well-written views in a 199-page book “loosely divided into three parts.”

Part One focuses on “ideas and case studies to illustrate how games can provide operating models to follow for redesigning work.”

Part Two presents “a discussion of games and game mechanics that are relevant to the way work is done.” He includes “specific examples, pictures, and case studies to show how game techniques and technologies can be applied to the design of new business systems and workflows.”

Part Three “describes business and social impacts of combining technology from video games with in-house corporate systems, consumer technology, and cloud computing. The book concludes with a discussion about where this is all going and what it might mean for the future of work.”

During the coming months, Enterprise Games may spur many discussions and arguments at all levels of enterprise. And these may lead to some business-model reorganizations not only in Corporate America but elsewhere in the interconnected global economy.

For these changes to happen, however, many company leaders will have to stop thinking “top down” and learn to adapt ”the four traits of a game…goal, rules, feedback system, and voluntary participation” to how they to structure and operate a business.

“We all have a sense of what a game is,” Hugos notes. But most of us also have been taught that “play” is not “work.” Enterprise Games shows how the two concepts can be brought together in ways that can make companies more competitive and more profitable in these uncertain times.

– Si Dunn

Understanding IPv6, 3rd Edition – Welcome to the new, improved & BIGGER Internet – #bookreview #microsoft #windows

Understanding IPv6, 3^rd Edition
Joseph Davies
(Microsoft Press, paperback, list price $49.99; Kindle edition, list price $39.99)

The Internet can now expand into a much bigger realm than was possible before the worldwide launch of IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) on June 6, 2012.

The web most of us use has long relied on IPv4, the circa-1981 Internet Protocol built around 32-bit addresses. This scheme can accommodate approximately 4.3 billion unique addresses worldwide. On a planet where (1) the population now has surpassed 7 billion and (2) many of us now have multiple devices connected to the Web, Internet Protocol version 4 recently has been in dire danger of running out of unique addresses.

IPv6 will fix that problem and offer several important new enhancements, as long as we don’t find ways to expand the Internet to parallel universes or to the people on a few trillion distant planets. IPv6 uses a 128-bit addressing scheme that can accommodate more than 340 trillion trillion trillion unique addresses. So go ahead. Get online with that second iPad, third smart phone or fourth laptop.

IPv4 and IPv6 are now running in a dual stack that supports both addressing schemes. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is not seamless, however. A lot of work remains to be done by major Internet service providers (ISPs), web companies, hardware manufacturers, network equipment providers and many others to enable IPv6 on their products and services.

Joseph Davies, author of Understanding IPv6, has been writing about IPv6 since 1999. His new 674-page third edition provides both a detailed overview of IPv6 and a detailed focus on how to implement it, within a limited range of Windows products.

“There are,” he notes, “different versions of the Microsoft IPv6 protocol for Windows….I have chosen to confine the discussion to the IPv6 implementation in Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista.”

This well-written and well-organized book is not for beginners. Its intended audience includes:

• Windows networking consultants and planners
• Microsoft Windows network administrators
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSEs) and Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs)
• General technical staff
• Information technology students

Davies and Microsoft offer downloadable companion content for this book: Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 (a network sniffer for capturing and viewing frames); and PowerPoint 2007 training slides that can be used along with the book to teach IPv6.

If you need a guide to best practices for using IPv6 in a Windows network, definitely consider getting Understanding IPv6, 3^rd Edition.

– Si Dunn

Introducing Windows Server 2012 – A guide to what’s coming in a much-anticipated release – #bookreview #microsoft

Introducing Windows Server® 2012
Mitch Tulloch with the Microsoft Server Team
(Microsoft Press, paperback, list price $14.99; Kindle edition, list price $0.00)

 The anticipated release date for the new version of Microsoft Server®  is sometime between the third quarter of 2012 and early 2013. And this book’s introduction hails it as “probably the most significant release of the Windows Server platform ever.”

Windows Server® 2012, it states, will offer “an innovative new user interface, powerful new management tools, enhanced Windows PowerShell support, and hundreds of new features in the areas of networking, storage and virtualization.”

There also will be major emphasis on cloud computing. The product has been “designed for the cloud from the ground up and provides a foundation for building both public and private cloud solutions,” the book declares.

Introducing Windows Server® 2012 is “based on beta,” according to the cover disclaimer. And, according to the author, the book  “represents a ‘first look’ based on the public beta release of Windows Server 2012 and is intended to help IT professionals familiarize themselves with the capabilities of the new platform.”

The 235-page book is divided into five chapters:

• Chapter 1 presents “The business need for Windows Server® 2012.” Not surprisingly, the main focus is on cloud computing and multi-server platforms.
• Chapter 2’s focus is “Foundation for building your private cloud” and how the new product can provide “a solid foundation for building dynamic, highly scalable, multi-tenant cloud environments.”
• Chapter 3 looks at the Windows Server® 2012 features and capabilities that can create a “[h]ighly available, easy-to-manage multi-server platform.”
• Chapter 4 discusses how you can use the product to “[d]eploy web applications on premises and in the cloud,” with its “scalable and elastic web platform” and “[s]upport for open standards.”
• Chapter 5 focuses on Windows Server® 2012 features and capabilities that are key to “[e]nabling the modern workstyle.” The author states: “Today’s business users want things simple. They want to be able to access their desktop applications, and data virtually anywhere, from any device, and have the full Windows experience. And from an IT perspective, this must be done securely and in ways that can ensure compliance at all times.”

Since this book is a “first look” written prior to the ready-to-manufacture (RTM) date, some of its screenshots, feature descriptions and stated capabilities may differ somewhat from the product that will be released.

But this overview can be a useful – and inexpensive — guide to have handy while considering whether to move to, or upgrade to, Windows Server® 2012.

– Si Dunn

Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition – The virtues of concurrency and functional style – #bookreview #in #programming

Programming Clojure, 2^nd Edition
Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra
(Pragmatic Bookshelf, paperback, list price $35.00)

Clojure is yet another computer programming language with an odd name and many followers.

For example, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, an award-winning author and founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has called Clojure “a beautiful, elegant, and very powerful language on the JVM [Java Virtual Machine].”

A lot has happened to Clojure (pronounced like “closure”) since the first edition of this book was published in 2009. Clojure has been updated several times and gained some enhancements, a lot of new followers, and many libraries.

Programming Clojure, 2^nd Edition has been rewritten and reorganized to cover these new features, concepts and developments.

“Clojure is a powerful, general-purpose programming language,” the authors note. But this is not a book for raw beginners, even though its first chapter does start at the traditional “Hello, world” level. It is intended for “experienced programmers looking for power and elegance.” You should have some experience with C#, Java, Python, or Ruby before tackling Clojure.

“Clojure is built on top of the Java Virtual Machine, and it is fast,” Halloway and Bedra emphasize. “This book will be of interest of Java programmers who want the expressiveness of a dynamic language without compromising on performance.”

They add: “If you program in Lisp, use a functional language such as Haskell, or write explicitly concurrent programs, you will enjoy Clojure.”

Indeed, Clojure’s creator, Rick Hickey, emphasizes the language’s value as an alternative to the “complexity” introduced in object-oriented programming. “Object-oriented programming seems easy,” he states, “but the programs it yields can often be complex webs of interconnected mutable objects.”

He continues: “Functional programming offers an alternative. By emphasizing pure functions that take and return immutable values, it makes side effects the exception rather than the norm. Clojure is designed to make functional programming approachable and practical for commercial software developers.”

Clojure also makes concurrent programming easier. “Many languages build a concurrency model around locking, which is difficult to use correctly,” the authors point out. “Clojure provides several alternatives to locking: software transactional memory, agents, atoms, and dynamic variables.”

The 268-page book is well-organized and well written, and it offers numerous practical code examples. The book also has been reviewed for technical accuracy by a panel of Clojure practitioners.

Clojure code, incidentally, tends to be short (but you do need an editor that can “at least indent code correctly and can match parentheses”).

In one of the book’s comparison examples, the function produced by a 14-line sample of Java code is duplicated in Clojure with just two lines. So development in Clojure potentially can be fast.

– Si Dunn

Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod – #programming #bookreview #in

Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod
Michael Snoyman
(O’Reilly, paperback, list price $34.99; Kindle edition, list price $27.99)

Haskell and Yesod? Aren’t they that comedy team playing at the new club downtown?

No, but they do work together. And they can work together very well, as this new book shows.

Haskell is “a powerful, fast, type-safe, functional programming language” used in Web development. It is said to be a great language for “pure computation,” but it’s rated “not so hot” for scripting.

Yesod, on the other hand, “is a Haskell web framework for productive development of type-safe, RESTful, high performance web applications.”

Some people say you don’t really need to know Haskell if you use Yesod. And others recommend that you do indeed need to understand “what your tools are doing.” And that includes having some experience with Haskell.

Michael Snoyman, who created Yesod, states that his new book “takes as an assumption that you are already familiar with most of the basics of Haskell.” If you are not, he recommends getting some Haskell basics first from two other books: Real World Haskell and Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! (That’s really the title.)

Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod is well written and appropriately illustrated with many code examples. The 280-page book is divided into four parts, including 21 chapters and seven appendices. The first 14 chapters focus on working with short code examples. And the pace ramps up to writing “a real site” starting in Chapter 15.

A few of the key topics covered in the book include:

• Building a simple application to learn Yesod’s foundation data type and Web Application Interface (WAI).
• Using Shakespearean template languages for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript output.
• Learning how Yesod monads interact, so you can produce cleaner, more modular code.
• Learning how to implement the yesod-form declarative API so you can build forms on top of widgets.
• How Yesod and Haskell store session data and handle persistence.

Along with showing you how to create “a production-quality web application with Yesod’s ready-to-use scaffolding,” Snoyman’s book also helps you examine several real-world examples, including “a blog, a wiki, a JSON web service, and a Sphinx search server.”

– Si Dunn

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Not your father’s database: Getting Started with CouchDB & with Fluidinfo – #bookreview #in #programming

These two books reflect some of the wide-ranging changes that the Internet and mobile devices are bringing to the ways databases are structured, accessed, updated, stored and maintained.

Getting Started with CouchDB
By MC Brown
(O’Reilly, paperback, list price $24.99; Kindle edition, list price $14.99)

“Databases are no longer isolated, single systems,” writes MC Brown. “Whether you want a database that can be shared among multiple devices (your desktop, laptop, and mobile phone), between multiple offices, or to be used as part of your database scaling operations, copying and sharing database information has become required functionality.”

He adds: “Different databases have traditionally approached this in a variety of different ways, including binary logs, data streams, row-based logging, and more complex hashing techniques. Within CouchDB, a simple but very effective method has been developed that uses the individual documents as the key to the method of sharing and distributing the document information between databases.”

Apache CouchDB™ is a free download for Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows. According to the website, “Apache CouchDB™ is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.”

Brown also describes how to install CouchDB from source code, with careful emphasis on “(if you must).”

For the number of pages (84), the list prices for Brown’s book seem a bit high. But if you want to learn how to work with CouchDB, information to get you started is conveniently at hand, in the book or e-book. For example, Brown shows how to create databases and delete databases and how to create, update and delete documents in the databases.

“All of your interactions with CouchDB will be through HTTP,” he notes. His book provides some “key details” for several HTTP operations “such as HEAD and DELETE that are useful when talking to CouchDB.”

MC Brown has written or contributed to more than 26 books dealing with programming, systems management, web technologies and other subjects. He is vice president of documentation for Couchbase.

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 Getting Started with Fluidinfo
By Nicholas J. Radcliffe and Nicholas H. Tollervey
(O’Reilly, paperback, list price $24.99; Kindle edition, list price $11.99)

“Fluidinfo is an online storage system in which there is a place for information about everything—everything that exists, everything that could exist, and everything that can be imagined,” this book’s two authors state. “It allows anyone to store any information, about anything, in any digital form. And Fluidinfo is social: users can exercise fine control over who can read their data and can even enable other chosen users and applications to write data on their behalf.”

Another way to describe Fluidinfo is as an “openly writeable shared datastore.”

Like CouchDB, Fluidinfo exposes “all its functionality through HTTP, the core protocol that underpins the World Wide Web. Programmers can take advantage of its RESTful API, which makes it easy to integrate with other applications.”

To try out Fluidinfo and get an account, go to fluidinfo.com. The site offers the option to sign in via Twitter.

This well-written, 119-page book is offered as a “practical guide to several ways to access and use Fluidinfo” and is organized into nine chapters:

• Chapter 1: What Is Fluidinfo?
• Chapter 2: Fluidinfo from the Command Line
• Chapter 3: Social Data
• Chapter 4: Programming with Fluidinfo
• Chapter 5: Programming with FOM (the Fluid Object Mapper)
• Chapter 6: Programming Fluidinfo with JavaScript
• Chapter 7: Fluidinfo’s RESTful API
• Chapter 8: Advanced Use of the Fluidinfo Shell
• Chapter 9: Conventions for the About Tag

There is also an appendix titled “Fluidinfo Query Language Reference.”

One of the book’s authors, Nicholas Radcliffe, has connections to Fluidinfo that date back to the 1980s and “has been a friend and advisor to the Fluidinfo company since its inception.” Meanwhile, Nicholas Tollervey is a software developer at Fluidinfo and has nearly 30 years’ experience in programming.

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– Si Dunn is a novelist, screenwriter, freelance book reviewer, and former software technical writer and software/hardware QA test specialist. He also is a former newspaper and magazine photojournalist. His latest book is Dark Signals, a Vietnam War memoir available now in paperback. He is the author of a detective novel, Erwin’s Law, a novella, Jump, and several other books and short stories.

Understanding PaaS – Get your head in the cloud – #bookreview #cloud #programming

Understanding PaaS
By Michael P. McGrath
(O’Reilly, paperback, list price $11.99; Kindle edition, list price $8.99)

Ready to get your head in the cloud? Understanding PaaS is a well-written and straightforward guide to understanding one of  the three primary areas of cloud computing: Platform as a Service (PaaS).

The other two primary areas, described briefly in this 37-page book, are Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

PaaS fits in the middle of the cloud-computing stack, between SaaS on top and IaaS at the bottom.

“SaaS simply refers to software that is provided on-demand for use,” notes the author, Michael P. McGrath, a founding member of Red Hat’s OpenShift and currently its ”Principal Cloud Architect.” He also is operations manager for all of Red Hat’s PaaS offerings. “There’s no magic to it [SaaS],” he adds. For example:  ”Anyone who has used web mail of any kind has been using SaaS.”

Meanwhile: “Proper IaaS provides a mechanism for people to replace all of their data center hardware needs.” The infrastructure services that can be obtained from the cloud include: host provisioning, load balancing, public and private network connectivity, firewalls, and storage.

“Additionally, all of the dependencies for these services also are provided” by IaaS providers, the author points out.

“PaaS providers offer a platform for others to use,” he adds. “What is being provided is part operating system and part middleware. A proper PaaS provider  takes care of everything needed to run some specific language or technology stack.” And: “PaaS today focuses almost entirely on web solutions. The components an end user interacts with are all web-based and because of this, most PaaS providers excel when it comes to large numbers of short lived process requests.”

McGrath’s book is divided into six short chapters:

1. What is Cloud Computing? – Describes the three levels and shows how to set up a virtual machine via Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). 

2. Why PaaS? - “PaaS provides a carefree environment for developers to work….By utilizing PaaS, developers simply pick the languages and features they want, match those requirements with a provider that has them, and start coding.” Discusses common features, costs and maintenance.

3. What to Expect - “PaaS makes it so easy to run code remotely that options are now available to do all development in the cloud.” Discusses why “a pre-built application may not automatically work when uploaded to PaaS.” Looks at tools, providers, development workflow and automated testing.

4. Examples - Provide code for creating a sample application using Red Hat’s OpenShift platform.

5. Architecture – Focuses on the “three primary concerns when dealing with networking in the cloud”: connectivity, bandwidth and latency.

6. Summary - McGrath says PaaS offers many solutions and now is “an exciting time for cloud providers. Go out, try some, and see how they can make IT easier and once again, enjoyable.”

If you are curious about cloud computing or ready now to try some development in the cloud, add this well-focused little book to your reading list and reference library.

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– Si Dunn is a novelist, screenwriter, freelance book reviewer, and former software technical writer and software/hardware QA test specialist. His latest book is a detective novel, Erwin’s Law. His other published works include Jump, a novella, and a book of poetry, plus several short stories, including The 7th Mars Cavalry, all available on Kindle.

SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition – #bookreview

SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition
By Dux Raymond Sy
(O’Reilly, paperback, list price $44.99; Kindle edition, list price $34.99)

Project management now provides the top use of Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and this updated edition quickly jumps straight into using SharePoint to create and run a Project Management Information System (PMIS). 

The book is written and structured for those “not interested in the nitty-gritty technical details of SharePoint,” the author says. His work “is focused on helping you leverage SharePoint for project management regardless of what industry you are in.”

And he emphasizes: “If you are interested in using SharePoint to deploy a corporate portal, create an ecommerce website, or develop a proprietary SharePoint application, this is not the book for you.”

In organizations large and small and even for individual users, “[t]he main purpose of SharePoint is to empower users with document management and team collaboration tools,” the author notes.  He points out that “SharePoint does not refer to a specific product or technology. Using the phrase ‘Microsoft SharePoint’ is like using the phrase ‘Microsoft Office.” It refers to several aspects of collaborative solutions.”

 This new edition is aimed at project managers, project team members, program managers, IT/IS directors and SharePoint consultants.

The 209-page book has nine chapters:

• 1. Project Kickoff
• 2. Setting Up the PMIS
• 3. Adding PMIS Components
• 4. Adding Stakeholders to the PMIS
• 5. Supporting Team Collaboration
• 6. Project Tracking
• 7. Project Reporting
• 8. Integrating PM Tools
• 9. Project Closing

SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition is well-written and tightly focused, with how-to instructions and illustrations on nearly every page.  It also provides a case study so readers can practice applying PMIS skills in SharePoint.

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– Si Dunn is a novelist, screenwriter, freelance book reviewer, and former software technical writer and software/hardware QA test specialist. His latest book is a detective novel, Erwin’s Law. His other published works include Jump, a novella, and a book of poetry, plus several short stories, including The 7th Mars Cavalry, all available on Kindle.