Sabbatical Day 32
I've spent the last "day" working on a few tiny scripts to learn about programming in Ruby and writing extensions for Google Chrome.
My first ruby script, port-install-from.rb, grabs all the MacPorts packages installed on a target remote machine, and installs them locally. This is to help me keep my laptop and desktop in sync with each other. It's available on GitHub, and I'd appreciate some more experienced Ruby programmers taking a look and pointing out anything I'm doing in a stupid way.
The chrome extension I wrote, Wikipedia Usage, looks at your wikipedia usage for the month, and based on that suggests an amount of money to donate to the WikiMedia Foundation. It also displays some graphs, and information about most common and most recently read articles. I'd be interested in any feedback, particularly suggestions or designs for how to make it look better. Any graphics designers want to make an awesome design for me to code up? It's for a good cause, after all.
Install Wikipedia Usage (Chrome users only)