The Netbeans guys have put together a downloadable magazine to celebrate the release of 5.5, and covers articles on all the new features in the IDE. It can be downloaded in whole or in part here.
Definitive Guide to Grails – out in e-book format
Graeme Rocher has announced on his blog that the initial version of The Definitive Guide to Grails is available as an e-book for download, prior to final publishing by Apress.
French Parliament to replace Windows with Linux
The French government are already leading the way for Linux usage in government offices (the Gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture already are using Linux), but now the Parliament offices will now also replace Windows for Linux.
InfoQ interview with Gavin King re. Seam 1.1
InfoQ.com have a great interview with Gavin King on their site discussing the new features and changes in Seam 1.1.
Most interesting I think is the option to no longer be reliant on EJB3 Entity Beans as the backing beans for the JSF pages, but instead use plain POJOs – a feature that allows you to deploy a Seam based app without a dependency on an EE App Server. More details in this blog entry here.