• I’m using Planning Poker online at work for estimation
• After a couple of sessions it asks for a subscription
• I would like to self host a free solution
• I already had a project called estimate which is written in Ruby
• I deployed this project on Heroku when they had a free-tier
• I would like to host it on my VPS for personal use
• This is a good opportunity to rewrite it in C and learn how to write a simple web application in C

Findings ¶

• There is a GNU project that offers an HTTP library: Libmicrohttpd
• an echo version is working with static linking to libmicrohttpd and gnu make. here
• During implementation I needed a hashmap which is not part of C standard library.
  • If GNU had a library I prefer to use it over another source. but I can’t find a GNU C library for hashmap
  • Glib has a hashtable. I have a perception that Glib is a core library for Gnome project and implements basic functionality like stdlib for gnome. hence I’ll use it

Questions ¶

• Any error will crash the program, what kind of countermeasures the program should take to localize errors?