04.Hackystat

I was able to complete the entire assignment and didn't have much difficulty. The only problems I encountered were trying to get through all of those guides. At first, it really seems overwhelming and tedious to install all the sensors. To start, eclipse was simple enough and I had no problems with that. But installing Ant and all the other QA tools left me a little confused. I'll admit that it did take me awhile to get back into the habit of using Ant and that might have contributed to some of that confusion. But what really kept me from moving on was just the sheer volume of data to go through. I didn't know where to start or really where to go next without carefully reading the pages. In the end there wasn't much to do at all other than setting all the environmental variables. All in all it only took me an hour to install all the sensors, sign up for an account, and get everything up and running so it wasn't much of a road block at all.

After having experience using HackyStat I can definitely see this as a rich source of information that can be used with the Nabaztag or the other ambient devices to clearly signal to users and developers of almost any problem that might be plaguing their projects. As for my own development through coding, its great tool to see the progress of your work and to make sure it's done right.

As for the three prime directives, it clearly fulfills all three. It clearly accomplishes a useful task because this system will instantly update the user will all kinds of information. It's also way easier to read then the command line prompt that you get in MS DOS. For the second prime directive, I was able to install all the sensors, sign up for an account and start using all within an hour so it easily fulfills that directive. Lastly, the last prime directive is fulfilled as well because there are more than enough wiki pages that go into detail on how a developer can install the system and get to producing something more for it as well.

It's easy to see that HackyStat fully covers all three prime directives and it also shows me how a "real life" program should. The installation process, although a little confusing, greatly document the entire process. There are pages on how to use every aspect of the program as well as many pages to show how to develop on to it as well.