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- blog
- Blog is short for weblog, a frequent and chronological publication of comments and thoughts on the web.
- CMS
- A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available. In todays web the type of content is in a wide range of formats. Things have changed since the early days of the internet text was considered to be only content type of note. Now content is in the form of documents, images, music, video as well as text. This change can be seen in the rise of the usage of content management system like Gallery2 and sites like flickr.com. Continue reading here. See a list of links here.
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets is a term referring to layout and formatting rules that can be applied to web pages. For more information, click here.
- DHCP
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Every computer on a TCP/IP network needs a unique IP Address. It can get wearisome to go around to every computer and type in the address. Instead, a server can keep a pool of addresses and assign them dynamcially. It works great for laptops that move from place to place and connect to different networks and need an address that fits in that network. It's also great for organizations so they don't have to keep track of every address for every computer.
- FTP
- The File Transfer Protocol is used for transfering files between systems across the internet. It is one of the older communication methods. But more and more often, files are being sent via HTTP because firewall configurations limit internet access to just simple web browsing. For more information, click here.
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language is the formatting code embedded in the text of a web page. These formatting codes specify things like headers, superscript, font size, tables, lists, and metadata. For more information, click here.
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol is the most popular protocol used on the internet because it is what web sites are delivered in. Secure ones use HTTPS, but for public information or marketing, this is the one that gets used. It defines how your web browser is to get and parse a bunch of text from a remote web server. Once a web file is downloaded, further processing takes place to see if there are more files or if the file needs to be interpreted with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or other protocols or scripting languages. For more information, click here.
- HTTPS
- HTTPS is simply HTTP + Security, or HTTP over SSL. For more information, click here.
- IDE
- Integrated Development Environment. Borland Developer Studio (including Delphi) and Microsoft Visual Studio are two examples of an IDE.
- PHP
- This used to stand for Personal Home Page, but now it's just the name of one of the most popular server-side scripting languages in use for building web pages. Indeed, this web site is built with PHP. For more information, click here.
- RFC
- The Requests for Comments (RFC) document series is a set of technical and organizational notes about the Internet (originally the ARPANET), beginning in 1969. Memos in the RFC series discuss many aspects of computer networking, including protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, as well as meeting notes, opinions, and sometimes humor. For more information on the history of the RFC series, see "30 years of RFCs".
- RSS
- Really Simple Syndication is a format based on XML designed for distributing news items. For more information, click here.
- SCSI
- Small Computer System Interface - a protocol for sending electrical data between computers and peripherals. Used most commonly in hard disks. For more information, click here.
- SSL
- Secure Socket Layer is best described as simply adding security to several other transport protocols on the internet. Getting into sockets and layers can get pretty deep pretty fast. But you can start here.
- USB
- Universal Serial Bus--computer connectors to a plethora of external devices. For more information, click here.
- Virtual Server
- A Virtual Server utilizes the hardware of one physical computer to provide the appearance, services, and capabilities of multiple servers, each of which are running their own operating system and providing a unique operating environment. For instance, both Linux and Windows can run simultaneously on the same computer and provide different services, security levels, and functions. For more information, click here.
- Wallenberg's Syndrome
- Wallenberg’s syndrome is a neurological condition caused by a stroke in the vertebral or posterior inferior cerebellar artery of the brain stem. For more information, click here.
- Wiki
- A wiki is a type of website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki, which Hawaiian, where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something "quick" or "fast" (Hawaiian dictionary). To continue reading, click here.