Collection of development-led text documents related to technical decision making, other writeups, and anything else that shouldn't go to sharepoint to die.
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This repository is public. Developer documentation containing sensitive information that should not be public-facing should be versioned in the development-texts-private repository.
- Rethinking zoom - follow up proposal required for design authority.
- Implementing Basic Web Analytics for the SMP - objectives and a summary of options
- Backing up the Postgres Databases in Heroku
- Stakeholder annotations
- Annotation bulk deletion API documention
- Tile upload and data ingest notes - Notes on various dos/don't dos of the data upload process.
- Domain hosting - an overview of domain hosting options as we want to migrate away from our current provider
- Panels - panel components and layout.
- Reduce map loading times - notes on potential actions we can take to improve the load times of maps with large amounts of model data.
- Manually generating SSL certs for Azure web apps using Certbot - how to generate and deploy free Let's Encrypt certs to an App Service running in Azure
- Notes from manual db backup/restore in Azure - Use
pg_dump/pg_restoreto manually take and restore backups from a Postgres DB running in Azure - Using pyenv to manage Python versions - Step-by-step instructions for installing and using pyenv for Python version management.
- Mapping libraries - decided to use Openlayers.
- RDF in Postgres - decided to leave status quo for now.
- Working with upstreams - proposed process for working with and funding upstream projects.
- Process of adding a new string using the Translation component in sm_platform
- Accessibilities in sm_platform
- Improving search - deciding to try out one or two client-side search libraries
- Showing edges - thoughts on how to draw edges between markers and labels in our maps
- Working with upstreams - working practice/process for when and how to work with non-VM upstream repositories