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What Readers Are Saying About Grails: A Quic k-Start Guide
This book, like Grails, is common sense distilled. You’ll be productive
in Grails in no time.
Scott Davis
Founder, ThirstyHead.com
This book stands heads and shoulders above other Groovy and Grails
books available today. Dave’s practical, h ands-on approach will teach
you the nuts and bolts of the language and framework and then lead
you through a project, step-by-step. This mix of instruction and prac-
tice is the perfect introduction to both Groovy and Grails.
Jared Richardson
Consultant, Agile Artisans.com
The Gr ails web framework is all about productivity, and so is Grails: A
Quick-Start Guide. Dave Klein builds a serious application through-
out the chapters, as if you were w orking wit h a colleague teaching
you new technology. This guide wil l get you pr oductive i n hours, not
weeks, and thanks to Dave’s humor, you’re really going to enjoy learn-
ing Grails. If you n eed t o dive into Grails for your next project, this
book is for you!
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy project manager, SpringSource
Dave Klein’s book is an enjoyable read th at presents an ef ficient path
to get from Grails novice to productive programmer. Anyone develop-
ing a web application to run on a JVM should read this book.
Steven Harris
Director of engineering, Terr acotta
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This book was an excellent guide for me as a first-time user of Grails
as well as Groovy. Building an entire project while learning is a big
asset: it is one thing to read and learn; it is another to learn by exam-
ple. The book presents the subject matter creatively and simplifies it.
It is definitely a recommended guide to t hose beginners who are ready
to take on a challenge with Grails and Groovy.
Amer Ghumrawi
Programmer/analyst, WinWholesale, Inc.
I’ve always believed that a good programmer finds the information
they need when th ey need it. Nothing could be more true to that state-
ment than wi th this book. I am new to Grails development and was
looking for a good book/reference guide. I found it in Grails: A Quick-
Start Guide. Even after reading it, I f ound myself referri ng to it often
to help me along. It was not written at a level that assumes the reader
is an expert Java developer or familiar with t he popular frameworks.
I found it easy to understand, and the code examples were excellent
in displaying t he ease with which a relative newcomer can become a
Groovy developer using Grails. I highly recommend this book for any-
one who is just starting to develop Grails applications.
Doug Bur ns
Programmer/analyst
I’ve read several books on the Grails framework, and this is the first
that explained thin gs enough that I felt confident building something
from scr atch. If you know R uby on R ails, you should definitely look at
this framework, and this book really helps you get your feet wet.
Brian Hogan
Rails consultant and trainer
Great book! Dave does a fantastic job of presenting the framework in
an easy-to-follow and very accessible way. Excellent!
Jef f Brown
Core Grails developer
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Grail s
A Quick-Start Guide
Dave Klein
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