The Open Source U

A bit ago now, I introduced the tOSU-WebServer which is a web server for educational purposes. As explained in my other writings that web server is simple and is not suitable for production use, though it could be modified and improved for that purpose.

I was flipping though Linux magazines and came across the Linux Journal’s article on Mongoose. Mongoose is an open source, self contained web server written in C and implemented in two files.

It is significantly more difficult to understand than tOSU-WebServer, but it has a lot more features. Also, the fact that it’s written in C (as is Apache 2) might be appealing to some.  I hope to explore it’s API a bit but I’m not sure I’ll do any formal articles on it. If you can follow the implementation details of tOSU-WebServer, you should be able to orientate yourself on Mongoose (assuming you are familiar with C).

The source code repository and project information are located on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/

I’ve been looking a little bit at SourceForge to join a newer open source project being done on the .NET platform. I came upon WordUp which is suppose to be a Microsoft Word Replacement. It is still early in the development but I think it has huge potential.

If you are interested in joining a .NET open source project, you might want to consider joining the project.

Check out URL to join: http://wordup.sourceforge.net/?p=55

General Information: http://wordup.sourceforge.net/ & https://sourceforge.net/projects/wordup/

For myself, I’ve sent in a request to get information on joining the project. If I join the project, I hope to get permission to post about it’s inner workings from an insiders-perspective here.