Picoline is a web-based chat platform, designed to be hosted in a .NET environment. The design goals of the platform is simplicity, convention-over-configuration and performance.

The platform comprises a server and a client component, which communicates via a simple REST-based interface. All communication goes across HTTP, allowing clients to connect even through paranoid firewall setups.

The server component is implemented in managed C# as a Windows service. This service handles a...