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Development Tools and Data

Here are the open source tools and freely-available data used in this project.

Apache HTTP Server: Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 Documentation; Expressions in Apache HTTP Server; RewriteRule Flags; Apache Reverse Proxy Guide; What is it and How to Configure Reverse Proxy; Redirect vs Rewrite
Apache Tomcat: Apache Tomcat 10 Documentation
blink(1): About the blink(1); Smart LED controller with built-in USB firmware; Tips and Tricks for blink1-tool
Debian Linux: Debian Releases; Release Notes for Debian 12 (bookworm), 64-bit PC; Debian Reference; Linux 'man' Pages; The Linux Kernel documentation; Device Mapper (dm-crypt); Internet Automated Dynamic DNS Client (inadyn); Understanding SSHFS
Debian Live Build: An abrupt End to Debian Live - actually just the end of an era!; The Debian Live Project; Debian Live Manual
Diceware: Diceware Password Generator
GDAL: GDAL Home Page; GDAL/OGR 3.6.2 Release Notes; GPKG – GeoPackage vector; PostgreSQL / PostGIS; Cheat sheet for GDAL/OGR command-line geodata tools
GeoServer: GeoServer Home Page; GeoServer 2.25.1 Release; GeoServer (latest stable) User Manual; Java Considerations; Container Considerations; Will GeoServer run over Tomcat 10.x?; Creating [Objects] in GeoServer using REST; Extension: Control Flow; Extension: Key Authentication; Extension: Cross-layer Filtering
HTML: Living Standard; HTTP Response Status Codes
Java: OpenJDK 17; Breaking Old Jars; Java Version History; JVM Tutorial - Java Virtual Machine Architecture Explained for Beginners; Guide to the Most Important JVM Parameters
JavaScript: Javascript Reference; You might not need jQuery; AJAX: Getting Started
Leo IDE: Leo's Home Page; Leo's Documentation Page; Packaged for Debian by Sparkers; Sparky Stable Repositories
Let's Encrypt: Transport Layer Security; Free, Automated, and Open Certificate Authority; How It Works; Is the Free SSL Certificate from Let’s Encrypt Safe?; Let’s Encrypt works with DynDNS.org? That doesn’t seem right; Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME); ACME Client Implementations; getssl - CLIENT of choice; DNS-01 - CHALLENGE of choice
MDN Web Docs: The Mozilla Developer Network; Web Technologies; HTTP Authentication; Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS); Proxy Servers and Tunneling; Firefox Developer Tools
No-IP: Domain Registration; Dynamic DNS; DNS Records Cheat Sheet
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): OGC® Standards and Supporting Documents; Web Feature Service; Web Map Service; Communicating with a WFS service in a web browser; GeoPackage Encoding Standard; Getting Started With GeoPackage
OmniDB: The OmniDB Handbook; Writing SQL Queries; OmniDB on GitHub; Version 3.0.3b released Dec 17, 2020; How to use OmniDB behind a Proxy Web Server with Apache 2.4
OpenLayers: OpenLayers Home Page; OpenLayers Releases; Changelog and Upgrade Notes; v6.15.0 API Doc; v6.15.0 Examples; The OL Package; OpenLayers + Webpack
OpenStreetMap: Welcome to OpenStreetMap!; The OpenStreetMap Community; The OpenStreetMap Foundation; Standard tile layer/Key; EPSG 3857 or 4326 for Web Mapping
OS Mapping: Open Government Licence; Boundary-Line; A Guide to Coordinate Systems in Great Britain; OS Transform (JavaScript helper functions)
PgDBF: On GitHub; Man Page
PostGIS: What is the Purpose of PostGIS on PostgreSQL?; PostGIS 3.3.0 Released; PostGIS 3.3.2, 3.2.4, 3.1.8, 3.0.8 Patch Releases; PostGIS 3.3 Manual; PostGIS 3.3 Cheatsheet; ST_Transform (for coordinate transformations); On Wikipedia
PostgreSQL: About PostgreSQL; PostgreSQL 15 Documentation; SELECT, TABLE, WITH -- retrieve rows from a table or view; PostgreSQL Tutorial - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED; Tuning Your PostgreSQL Server; Using Postgres with Latin1 (ISO8859-1) and Unicode (utf-8) character sets
psqlODBC: psqlODBC - PostgreSQL ODBC driver; psqlODBC Releases
Python: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!; Sunsetting Python 2; What’s New In Python 3.0; Python 3.11.2 Documentation; Unicode HOWTO
QGIS: QGIS Home Page; Features of QGIS; A Gentle Introduction to GIS; QGIS Installers
REST (a sort of Holy Grail of web services): On Wikipedia; Roy Fielding's Dissertation; REST API Tutorial; Learn REST: A Tutorial; REST and SOAP; Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres Database; Clean URLs
rsync: On Wikipedia; rsync Home Page; rsync Documentation; What does f+++++++++ mean in rsync logs?; rsync.net
xorriso: ISO 9660 Rock Ridge Filesystem Manipulator; Detailed Manual; Emulation of ISO 9660 program mkisofs; Emulation of CD/DVD/BD program cdrecord