Specify Developer Documentation

Guidelines:

  • GitHub Guidelines and Process
  • Support Staff Expectations & Best Practices

Launching a Release:

  • Release Process for Hosted Users
  • Create Release Notes

Amazon Web Services:

  • AWS Automation
  • AWS Infrastructure Notes
  • AWS Specify Asset Server Setup
  • Specify Cloud Setup
  • Digital Ocean to AWS migration
  • Deploy Specify7 to an EC2 instance
  • Add new Specify instance to Specify Cloud
  • Specify Cloud Graviton Setup
  • Setup remote database connection to local mysql workbench
  • Web Portal using Docker

Asset Server:

  • Specify 7 Docker Config Example
  • Asset Server Configuration
  • EC2 Non-Dockerized Build
  • Hybrid Asset Server Setup

Server Management:

  • Updown Monitoring
  • Managed Servers
  • Accessing Specify 7 Deployments
  • Accessing Backups on AWS RDS
  • Specify Test Panel User Guide
  • Server Access Management Policy
  • Check Asset Usage
  • Exoscale Hosted Instances
  • Backups on Exoscale
  • New certificate on biprdsp7wbdb.cc.ku.edu server
  • web-portal certificate
  • specify.ku.edu ssl cert update
  • Hosting Reports

Internal Processes:

  • Specify Development Process
  • Project (Github pages) documentation
  • Databases with Specific Features
  • Individual Database Information
  • Developer Expectations
  • Developer Onboarding – Specify Software
  • Dev Support Process
  • Release Process and Timeline

Security:

  • AWS Security
  • Fix Exposed Secrets
  • Security Monitoring

Testing:

  • Pull Request Testing

Specify Software:

  • Glossary
  • Overview
  • Membership
  • Discipline support
  • Specify Cloud Hosting
  • Data Migration
  • Specify Training
  • Specify Workbench
  • Common Workflows

Developer Utils:

  • Writing Migrations
  • Setting Up Backend Debugger in VS Code for Specify 7

Technical Decisions:

  • Component Extension to Collection Objects
  • Batch Edit
  • Collection Object Groups (COG) Design & Implementation
  • Extended Age Query (EAQ) Design & Implementation

Misc:

  • Removing a Specify Cloud Instance
  • Informatics Documentation
  • Working with central KU IT
  • Create a Most-In-One Specify Docker image
  • Useful bash commands
  • VS Code Django Unit Test Debugging
  • Create a branch from a tagged release
Specify Developer Documentation
  • Index

Index

A | C | D | H | M | O | T

A

  • Algorithm

C

  • Collection Object
  • Container
  • CSV

D

  • Data Catalog
  • Data Validation
  • Docker
  • Docker image
  • DwCA

H

  • Host machine

M

  • Mapped Spreadsheet
  • Mapping Template

O

  • Occurrence
  • Occurrence Data

T

  • Tree

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