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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
- Portable Document Format
- 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