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
BLU
Boston Linux & Unix = a Linux User Group in Boston, MA, USA with roots that go back into the days of Unix before Linux was a thing
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
GNHLUG
Greater New Hampshire Linux User Groups = an association of User Groups in and around the state of New Hampshire, USA of people interested in Linux technology and/or those who created it in the first place; and continue to this day.
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
LUG
Linux User Group = a general term whereas a specific LUG will often have a geographic focus
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
Regex
Regular Expression, a search and replace syntax that allows for powerful pattern matching
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