PHP programmers will want to read this practical little book, which seems to have been self-published. 150 pages.

A book for bloggers and webmasters. The book will also interest plugin developers. 300 pages.

Programmers will like this book.

• installing, customizing and getting the most out of the web’s most versatile content management system
• the inner mechanics of WordPress
• plugins, themes and APIs to add extra functionality
• Multisite capabilities to host and manage your own centralized network of WordPress websites
• localization techniques and marketing tips

O’Reilly, 400 pages.

Web programmers will want to read this, particularly when working with PHP. 500 pages.

It’s remarkable how much you can develop without doing any traditional coding. Dialogs allow you to point and click it all together, as long as you like the available options. 800 pages, contents:

Introduction to SharePoint development
Creating your first SharePoint solution with Visual Studio 2010
Introduction to the SharePoint OM
Working with lists
Event receivers
Working with external data
Content types and customized documents
Workflows
Web parts
SharePoint pages
Packaging and deployment
Preparing for SharePoint development.

This book will help you lay out and configure a CMS web site using Drupal. You don’t need to know much about coding (PHP, Javascript, etc); you will mostly be working in web dialog forms. From the title you would expect to see mostly graphics (such as screendumps), but this well written book only uses graphics where appropriate. 200 pages.

Web developers will want to read this book about web app development. It introduces web apps based on the WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal ‘platforms’. It also introduces javascript frameworks jQuery Touch and Sencha Touch ( the author is at Sencha, which provides extJS). 500 pages.

This book on K2 products that build on Microsoft’s Sharepoint CMS, will be useful to analysts who plan to automate and manage business processes. 850 pages.