todo.txt to google spreadsheet converter - step 1 - get grovy

[rant mode on]
because while I grew up with Java I never got over the wonders of onestep run from my perl days.  The whole Java compile then run just slows down the whole development process down.
[rant mode off]

Below are the direct links you could get from a quick google search to get groovy up and running on your mac.

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download
which points to below and is really cool
http://gvmtool.net/

Back on Blogger

well I posted on LiveJournal back in 2011 that I would be moving back to Blogger.  (http://glblack.livejournal.com/8416.html).  Two years later is my first post back.  Well at least for this blog stream.  I have been working with the BTEC blog over the last couple of years.  We really need to figure out how we should cross post to Facebook and Twitter so the content has more reach.  The traffic to the blog is really not that high.

Anyway back on blogger to talk about some groovy, todo.txt, google spreadsheet conversions scripting.  Just got groovy installed on the laptop and will get the google java api libs to start on the conversion scripts.  more on that later.