I’ve always meant to take a closer look at Plone. It has an excellent reputation for being a robust, scalable, secure CMS used by all sorts of organisations, large and small. The lack of cheap, shared hosting had put me off in the past, but that’s really no excuse for not checking out a great CMS (particularly with the rise of cheap virtual private servers.)My favourite publisher, Packt, have a couple of new books out for Plone (Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook and Plone 3 Multimedia.) Their books are always really well written and there’s the added incentive of 20-30% off at the moment! On top of that, they’re doing a running a prize draw, with Amazon and iTunes vouchers as prizes, to anyone buying these books in the first two weeks of release!

You can check out the promotion here.