Developer documentation

This page contains information pertinent to developers of WormBase.

Migration documentation

• Migration matrix (GoogleDoc)
• HOWTO migrate a CGI - quick overview of how to migrate an existing CGI into a Model, Controller, and View. Sparse
• Common Model elements - reference list of common model elements handled generically

Hardware platform

• Logical structure
• Physical structure
• Performance optimization - Memory, Disk, and Network I/O troubleshooting
• Hardware catalog - A complete accounting of WormBase compute resources
• Base node configuration - CentOS5 - Configuring a WormBase node from scratch (CentOS 5)

Software platform

• Application overview - A quick tour through the software platform
• Installing the Web Application - Here's how to install the WormBase web application -- including Catalyst -- on your system
• Coding standards

Administration

• Monitoring services and servers
• Crises Recovery Plan - Everything breaks. Here's how to fix it.

Load balancing and Failover

• Building Squid - How to build and install Squid
• Configuring Squid - basic squid configuration at WormBase

Developer Meetings

14-18 January, 2008 - Toronto

Presentations

CSHL conference call slides

2008.01.23: Pt 1-Introduction (key, pdf) - about Catalyst, the reimplementation strategy and roadmap