A review of O'Reilly's Mastering Grails 101 video series by Berglund and McCullough. Covers Grails fundamentals, Groovy language basics, convention over configuration philosophy, building applications from scratch, and scaffolding. Recommends for anyone wanting to learn Grails web framework quickly.

A review of Tom Hughes-Croucher's O'Reilly video series on Node.js, which provided excellent introduction and inspiration leading to installing NodeJS and experimenting with projects immediately. Strongly recommended for anyone getting started or wanting to understand the concepts behind Node.js.