Terminology

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lingo for info

ABBR

Abbreviation

AJAX 

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML = A means to exchange data with a server without loading a whole new page.

API 

Application Programming Interface

APP 

short for Software Application.

APT 

Advanced Package Tool. Created by the Debian project.

ASP 

Application Service Provider

Application Server Pages - an old technology by Microsoft

ATM 

Automated Teller Machine (please don't call it an 'ATM Machine', that's redundant)

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

BMW 

Bavarian Motor Works = German car company

coax

coaxial cable

CNCF

Cloud Native Computing Foundation https://www.cncf.io/ - a sub-foundation of the Linux Foundation.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets = A technology that deals with the presentation of content on the web

DAST

Dynamic Application Security Testing can find security vulnerabilities and weaknesses in a running application, typically web apps. It does that by employing fault injection techniques on an app, such as feeding malicious data to the software, to identify common security vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection and cross-­site scripting (XSS). DAST can also cast a spotlight on runtime problems that can’t be identified by static analysis­­ for example, authentication and server configuration issues, as well as flaws visible only when a known user logs in.

DKIM

DomainKeys Identified Mail = An IETF specification that combats SPAM on the Internet

DNS

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

DPL

Dynamic Page Lists = Like a Cuisinart food processor, it allows you to slice and dice the contents of your wiki.

DRM

Digital Restrictions Management = Electronic methods to control what you can and can't do.

EFF

Electronic Frontier Foundation https://eff.org

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 = Another attempt to de-emphasize the price connotation of 'free' and instead recognize that free means liberty.

FSF

Free Software Foundation. fsf.org

FUBAR

F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition

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, because Unix is proprietary software while Gnu is software that respects your freedom.

GPL

General Public License = A sane copyright license

HHVM

HipHop Virtual Machine = a PHP interpreter created at Facebook as an alternative to the Zend Engine interpreter. http://hhvm.com/

HTML

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

HTTP

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

HTTPS

HTTP Secure = HTTP using SSL or the newer TLS

IANAL

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."

IAST

Interactive Application Security Testing. A technique employing an agent inside a running application capable of testing all libraries, frameworks, API endpoints and protocols for security vulnerabilities.

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force = organization to make the Internet work better

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

IRL

In Real Life = A TLA used when 'virtual' was a thing. Now the virtual has permeated 'meat space' and so the two are not so distinct.

ISBN

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.

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

LXC

is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.

LXD

is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.

MOTD

Message Of The Day = MOTD

node

nodes

A worker machine in a Kubernetes cluster.

NPM

Node Packaged Modules = a package manager for the Nodejs system

NSFW

Not Safe For Work

OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards = a global standards organization

OOP

Object Oriented Programming = hard to define. See OOP.

OOUI

Object Oriented User Interface mw:OOUI

ORM

Object Relational Mapping = a database approach

PDF

Portable Document Format = a widely used standard for representing documents electronically and print. PDF

PEAR

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

PHAR

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

Phishing

attempt to acquire sensitive information such as passwords or credit card details by masquerading as a trusted party.

PHP

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

Pod

Pods

A Pod (as in a pod of whales or pea pod) is a group of one or more containers , with shared storage/network resources, and a specification for how to run the containers. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/

POTD

Picture Of The Day

POTY

Picture Of The Year

PRURL

PRURLs

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

PSR-1

PHP Standard Recommendation 1

PSR-2

PHP Standard Recommendation 2

RASP

Run-time Application Security Protection is similar to IAST, but rather than testing for vulnerabilities it acts like a watchdog that responds to live threats (e.g. terminating an attacker's session and alerting).

Regex

Regular Expression = a search and replace syntax that allows for powerful pattern matching

RSS

Really Simple Syndication = a syntax for sharing data across the web.

SAST

Static Application Security Testing is to find security vulnerabilities in the application source code earlier in the software development life cycle. Because SAST can be automated in DevOps, it becomes part of SecDevOps

SCM

Software Configuration Management

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

SPAM

unsolicited bulk email

SPF

Sender Policy Framework

SME

Subject Matter Expert

SMW

Semantic MediaWiki = See Metadata

SRE

Site Reliability Engineer

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer = secure (encrypted) underpinning for HTTP

TLA

Three-Letter Acronym

TLS

Transport Layer Security

UOP

User Operation Prohibition = things you're not allowed to do with a DVD, like skip the FBI warning w:User operation prohibition

UPO

User Preference Option = things that you can set in your "preferences". Special:Preferences

URL

URLs

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

VCS 

Version Control System

VE

Visual Editor

WMF

WikiMedia Foundation = the organization which runs various projects including Wikipedia.org

WOFF

Web Open Font Format

WWW

World Wide Web = the part of the Internet where websites and documents can be found via HTTP or HTTPS.

XML

Extensible Markup Language = a system for markup such that you can create your own 'schema' of terms rather than a specific markup language.