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Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks.

Jason Rudolph is an Application Architect at Railinc, where he develops software that helps keep trains moving efficiently throughout North America.

The book can be downloaded for free (registration required), but also you could always purchase the printed copy.

Microsoft Switzerland’s Platform Advisor and TechNet blogger Frank Koch has recently published an English version of the Windows PowerShell Course Book:

The book is available for free and you can share it with all your colleagues or friends if you leave it as it is. The books can be used with or without the demo files available at this blog as well.

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks explains how to use VS.NET efficiently. Organized into short and easy-to-grasp sections, and containing tips and tricks on everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE, this book is a must-read for all .NET developers, regardless of expertise and whether they program in C#, VB.NET, or any other .NET language. This book covers the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005 Beta 1 releases.

The book is available as a free download (requires registration) but you can order a printed copy as well.

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Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software.

Written by Karl Fogel, it has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License an it’s available to download in a variety of formats such as PDF and HTML.