I’ve practically always been a fan of Django’s iStat Pro and iStat Menu (at least, every since I discovered their existance.). When they announced iStat for iPhone, I was pretty excited about it. However, seeing a it’s a paid app, I lost some interest. (Not wanting to pay for a, what, two dollar app? I know, I’ve got issues. Maybe I’ll write a blog post about that.).

Once I saw that someone had written a version of iStat Server for Linux, and released it as open source, I released that I could use that to build my own version if iStat for iPhone (dubbed openStat) as a fun little challenge to see if I could build a client for a piece of software based only on the serve source code and other client screenshots.

The series of blog posts resulting from this is going to be documenting my journey throught this little challenge, posting about problems I’m facing, interesting code snippets, etc., and will be showing you, the reader, how to… ummm….. well, do something. I guess it’s just an attempt to get you to come back and keep reading.

Anyway, this blog post isn’t really going to have much, mostly because I’m posting this from my iPod Touch, which doesn’t have access to the source code for openStat. Tomorrow, I should hope to have a more fuller (more fuller? What kind of kooky grammar is that?) post with more info then.