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== Software Life Cycle ==
 
== Software Life Cycle ==
 
* [[Updating The Development Server]] - ''Staging a new release of the database on the development server''
 
* [[Updating The Development Server]] - ''Staging a new release of the database on the development server''
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* [[Software Life Cycle: 3. QA/QC and Performance Benchmarking|QA/QC and Performance Benchmarking]] - ''Staging the code for deployment, QA/QC, and performance testing''
 
* [[Software Life Cycle: 4. Updating The Production Servers|Release to Production]] - ''Deploying the web app; updating to a new release of the database''
 
* [[Software Life Cycle: 4. Updating The Production Servers|Release to Production]] - ''Deploying the web app; updating to a new release of the database''
  

Revision as of 18:12, 13 July 2011

This page contains information pertinent to employees of WormBase.

Project Management

Data Model and Data Development

Web Site Development Guidelines

Documents pertaining to WormBase 2.0


The Web Application

  • Application overview - An overview of the web application, including MVC structure, request flow, caching, etc
  • Configuration -- Application and view configuration: formatting and standards
  • WormBase::API -- The WormBase data model, maintained external to the web application
  • View -- Templating system, commom template elements, javascript, and CSS
  • Model -- The web application model; thin, glued to the external Model
  • Controller -- Overview of controller files and actions

Information for third party developers

Administration

Architecture

Software Platform

Hardware Platform

Software Life Cycle

Routine Administration Tasks

Monitoring and Crises Management

Frozen Releases

Source Code Repositories

We use the distributed source code management system Mercurial. Projects are hosted on BitBucket.

How-To create, check out, and manage our repositories

Deprecated Documentation

The good word gone bad. Cruft. Lint. Maybe useful. Probably not.

Load balancing and Failover

Rearchitecture

  • HOWTO migrate a CGI - quick overview of how to migrate an existing CGI into a Model, Controller, and View. Sparse


Frozen Releases as Virtual Machines