Infomartive Workspaces Review

Introduction:
This project is basically using 9 screens as a information radiator. The screens should be set up so that information about project should be easily accessed and "indulged" without any obstacles. Right now there are a three screens devoted to the discussion boards for each of the three other projects. The other 6 boards are divided into Hudson, graphs, a blank page, twitter and the core of the project, a project overviewer. Although the rest of the pages are somewhat useful the project overviewer is supposed to be the meat and potatoes of the 9 screens. This screen should show you at a glance what the current state of the project is.

Installation:
The installation was a simple addition to the tomcat program. This is very simple for me since I'm used to tomcat. But to any other regular user that just wanted to try and install this program would have a hard time trying to install tomcat in the first place. Especially since, they offer to link to where they can learn to install tomcat. Other than that, without modifying two lines of code you will have to use their data. I don't think shipping out your own information with your product was such a great idea. If anything they should have a space in their developer or even the installation guide that shows how to change this information to suit the user. This also brings up the fact that they don't have any information about hackystat and how to obtain an account from them as well. I would have to saw the installation is pretty weak for anyone that is not familiar with all the tools involved.

Code Review:
The amount of comments seem to be kind of low. There is only comments for each method but nothing to explain what is going on within the actual meat of the code. You kind of have to just believe what th comments say about what the methods do. There is also a lot of commented code that is still lurking around here and there. I also don't know too much about wicket so I don't know what to really do with this code but I can sort of follow it through.

Overview:
I didn't really like the diagram tree that was used to show how the project was coming along because it felt like it was too big and obstructive. It didn't really radiate data and actually made me shift my focus away from those two screens. I'm not too sure of what is out there right now but coming from a ambient devices point of view, I think something with more color would shift focus back to that page and maybe even something that moves or is interactive.

As a information radiator it should not only be easy to see what you need to see, but it the data should be enticing. I feel like if I walked into the office every morning, instead of trying to avoid the informative workspace, I should want to go up to it, play with it a little, explore what I can learn from it today about the project, and also see the progression of the project as well as where people are working on the various parts of the project.