Terminology

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ABBR

Abbreviation

API

Application Programming Interface

APT

Advanced Package Tool. Created by the Debian project.

ASP

Application Service Provider

Application Server Pages - an old technology by Microsoft

coax

coaxial cable

DNS

Domain Name System. An Named Host to IP Address lookup system

FOSS

Free Open Source Software. An attempt to communicate the 'freedom' aspect of free software de-emphasizing the price connotation of 'free'.

FLOSS

Free / Libre Open Source Software

FSF

Free Software Foundation. fsf.org

FUSE

Filesystem in User Space

GAFYD

Google Apps For Your Domain

GNU

Gnu's Not Unix

GPL

General Public License. A sane copyright license

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

IANAL

I Am Not A Lawyer

IP

Internet Protocol. An IP Address is a host or device name in numeric form.

IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4

IPv6

Internet Protocal version 6

IPR

Intellectual Property Rights

ISBN

International Standard Book Number. ISBNs are 10-digit or 13-digit codes used by the publishing industry to uniquely identify individual book titles and editions. Some 10-digit ISBNs may end with an "X" instead of a digit.

JS

JavaScript. A computer language.

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation. A data representation format in JavaScript

KIO

KDE Input/Output slaves

NPM

Node Packaged Modules. npm is a package manager for the Nodejs system

OOP

Object Oriented Programming hard to define. See OOP.

ORM

Object Relational Mapping

PEAR

PHP Extension and Application Repository

PHAR

PHP Archive

PHP

PHP is the HyperText Preprocessor

PRURL

PRURLs

Protocol Relative URL. Starts with '//' instead of 'HTTP(S)://'

PSR-1

PHP Standard Recommendation 1

PSR-2

PHP Standard Recommendation 2

SCM

Software Configuration Management

SPF

Sender Policy Framework

SMW

Semantic MediaWiki

URL

URLs

Uniform Resource Locator. An address of a web page or other component, including the protocol.

VCS

Version Control System

VE

Visual Editor

Abbreviation

Application Programming Interface

Advanced Package Tool. Created by the Debian project.

Application Service Provider

Application Server Pages = an old technology by Microsoft

coaxial cable

Domain Name System. An Named Host to IP Address lookup system

Internet Protocol. An IP Address is a host or device name in numeric form.

Free Open Source Software. An attempt to communicate the 'freedom' aspect of free software de-emphasizing the price connotation of 'free'.

Free / Libre Open Source Software = Another attempt to de-emphasize the price connotation of 'free' and instead recognize that free means liberty.

Free Software Foundation. fsf.org

Filesystem in User Space

Google Apps For Your Domain (now called Google Workspace)

Gnu's Not Unix, because Unix is proprietary software while Gnu is software that respects your freedom.

General Public License = A sane copyright license

HyperText Markup Language = structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing text.

I Am Not A Lawyer (but I'll play one on the Internet ;-)) Because this acronym can be interpreted as crude, Heather Meeker suggests an alternative 'disclaimer' in online discussions: "If this were legal advice, it would have come with an invoice."

Internet Protocol version 4

Internet Protocal version 6

Intellectual Property Rights = A crazy idea that nonetheless is pervasive in the global legal system. See Also: GPL

International Standard Book Number = 10-digit or 13-digit codes used by the publishing industry to uniquely identify individual book titles and editions. Some 10-digit ISBNs may end with an "X" instead of a digit.

JavaScript = A computer language.

JavaScript Object Notation = A data representation format in JavaScript

KDE Input/Output slaves

Node Packaged Modules = a package manager for the Nodejs system

Object Oriented Programming = hard to define. See OOP.

Object Relational Mapping = a database approach

PHP Extension and Application Repository = a collection of code started in 1999 to enhance the utility of PHP.

PHP is the HyperText Preprocessor = the most popular programming language for the web

PHP Archive = a distribution format. See https://secure.php.net/manual/en/intro.phar.php

Protocol Relative URL. Starts with '//' instead of 'HTTP(S)://'

Protocol Relative URL. Starts with '//' instead of 'HTTP(S)://'

Uniform Resource Locator = an address of a web page or other component, including the protocol.

HyperText Transfer Protocol = the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. See HTML

PHP Standard Recommendation 1

PHP Standard Recommendation 2

Software Configuration Management

Sender Policy Framework

Semantic MediaWiki = See Metadata

Uniform Resource Locator = an address of a web page or other component, including the protocol.

Version Control System

Visual Editor