I often realize how much I love reading. It doesn’t matter if I’m reading a PDF on my laptop, an e-book with Kindle on my iPad or a paper book before falling asleep in the evening – they are all good in my books.
Every now and then I scan through Amazon for upcoming books with hopes there’s something worth buying. There’s probably a lot of good books I haven’t read around SharePoint or Microsoft technologies in general, so I’m always in the mood for new purchases.
Here are my latest findings:
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Fresh content for the newly released SQL Server 2012. Best of all, this one is free of charge!
Available for Kindle also, get it here.
Working with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint: Having just bought this I haven’t had a chance to read it any further than the introduction. It feels like a good overview for FAST in a condensed form.
Available for Kindle also, get it here.
Delivering Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2012: Very nice to see such detailed topics already available for SQL Server 2012. Only one review (5 stars) so I’m definitely putting this on my to-read list for the summer.
Available April 23, see details here.
SharePoint 2010 Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects: An interesting take to a somewhat familiar topic on SharePoint. The writers seem to have good background on technical and non-technical issues for SharePoint. The index is a bit lackluster with topics like “Design a team blog platform to review content”. I’ll give this a try, the Kindle version is only $20. Get it here.
Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture: There’s a huge resource available for IA from Microsoft, so it’s always refreshing to see someone outside MS try to tackle this non-technical yet highly important aspect of any SharePoint deployment.
Available April 18, see details here. No mention of a Kindle version yet.
Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and Javascript: Living on the edge with a topic like this! Definitely going to get this – there’s also a separate book if you prefer using C#.
Available April 29, see details here. No mention of a Kindle version yet.
Programming Microsoft’s Clouds: Azure and Office 365: This book promises to be a very detailed look at both Azure and Office 365 custom solutions. It’s “only” +500 pages, so hopefully it’s not going to be 300 pages explaining what Azure or Office 365, but rather +500 pages of solid content.
Available June 5, see details here. No mention of a Kindle version yet.
SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services: I’m uncertain what’s new in this book compared to the de facto manual on BCS from Scot Hillier. It seems to be more for business analysts and super users rather than developers or IT Pro’s, since the sample table of contents includes a lot of references to SharePoint Designer, Office and “enhancing”. Probably not buying this, but it’s interesting to see BCS gain more ground – it’s actually pretty damn good.
Available June 22, see details here. No mention of a Kindle version yet.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll have to go back to my books!