Make commuting (or treadmill time) fun with a groovy podcast downloader

I've received quite a bit of feedback on my earlier release of my groovy podcast downloader script. I've folded in this feedback.

Take a spin at http://github.com/bherrmann7/podcast-get/tree/master/src/pget.groovy Enjoy!! Please send along feedback! bob@jadn.com

I use a small Groovy script to download podcasts into a single directory. It numbers the files uniquely and they can be simply copied to any mp3 player (for my long commute.) It uses an array of podcast urls as it's source. It keeps track of what is downloaded (so you dont get the same podcasts over and over.) You can stop the script and edit and re-run it (tweaker friendly). Rerunning is safe because it doesn't update the history until the end and it skips already downloaded files.

I wanted to try out git hub, so I posted it there. I'm interested in all feedback.

Download it at http://github.com/bherrmann7/podcast-get/tree/master/src/pget.groovy

Groovy's Grape looks wicked cool, but I didn't have much luck getting it going (posted on stackoverflow). Anyone else have success?

Open Source Therapy by Nat Torkington. The talk covers, "Open Source finds itself at a midway point in its existence, with unresolved trauma and an uncertain future. Join noted open source psychologist Dr Nat as he works through these issues and, hopefully, helps open source achieve stability." I found it very funny. I'm sure it applies to the Rails and Grails community as well.

Grails scaffolding generates list.gsp pages with tables. The default style when mousing over items in the list highlights the row. This provides nice feedback to the user about which row they are "selecting", but if a user clicks, nothing happens. This little tweak makes the click do the reasonable thing (which is drill down on the item clicked on.) In list.gsp, change

<tr class="${(i % 2) == 0 ? 'odd' : 'even'}">

<tr class="${(i % 2) == 0 ? 'odd' : 'even'}" onclick='window.location = "show?id=${YourBean.id}"'/>

Get Job Done is a slick site for matching people and projects. Similar to grailscrowd.com, but "Get Job Done" is for all kinds of technology stacks. "Get Job Done" was written using Grails! Sweet...

Pandora rocks. Not sure I will ever play one of my CDs ever again. It is like a radio station that only plays music that you like. My profile at Bob's Pandora Profile

I was looking at te grails crowd website, grailscrowd.com and I discovered grailsjobs.com/. I wonder if either will get enough interest to make finding consulting grails work easy? I know about, workingwithrails.com and I think it must do wonders for the Ruby guys.