The CMS and ECM World has a number of well recognized authors, from the publishing house Packt (pronounced Packed, as in packed with information.) The Author of the Year Award announced by Packt goes to Jeff Potts for his Alfresco Developer Guide.

The award was determined first by readers nominating their preferred candidates, with the final decision being made by a panel of judges. The final nominees were 6 books on such diverse topics as Drupal, Javascript and SOA.
Aaron Winborn for Drupal Multimedia;
Matt Butcher for Learning Drupal 6 Module Development;
Shea Fredrick, Colin Ramsay and Steve “Cutter” Blades jointly for Learning Ext JS;
Stoyan Stefanov for Object-Oriented JavaScript;
Vincenzo Caselli,
Binildas A. Christudas,
Malhar Barai jointly for Service Oriented Architecture with Java.

Packt is a print on demand publishing company based in Birmingham, UK. Founded in 2004 as an independent company, they focus on supporting and promoting Open Source. In 2008, Packt’s donations to Open Source Projects broke the $100,000 barrier. Next contest at packtpub – 2009 Open Source CMS Award. More details at http://www.packtpub.com/award.

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