Information Technology Glossary

Glossary

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.htaccess

The default name of Apache’s directory-level configuration file.

ACL

Access Contol List

Blowfish

A keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier.

Browser

A software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web.

Bzip2

A free software/open source data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.

CGI

Common Gateway Interface is an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on the Web server.

Changelog

A log or record of changes made to a project.

Client

A computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network.

Column

A set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of the table.

Cookie

A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server.

CSV

Comma- separated values

DB

Look at database

Database

An organized collection of data.

Engine

Look at storage engines

Extension

A PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions is a list of commonly asked question and there answers.

Field

One part of divided data/columns.

Foreign key

A column or group of columns in a database row that point to a key column or group of columns forming a key of another database row in some (usually different) table.

FPDF

The free PDF library

GD

Graphics Library by Thomas Boutell and others for dynamically manipulating images.

GD2

Look at gd

Gzip

Gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression program.

Host

Any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.

Hostname

The unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the primary method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web.

Https

A HTTP-connection with additional security measures.

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

IIS

Internet Information Services is a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.

Index

A feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.

IP

Internet Protocol is a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.

IP Address

A unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard.

Ipv6

Ipv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the latest revision of the Internet Protocol (IP), designed to deal with the long-anticipated problem of its precedessor ipv4 running out of addresses.

ISAPI

Internet Server Application Programming Interface is the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).

ISP

Internet service provider is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.

ISO

International Standards Organisation

JPEG

A most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images.

JPG

Look at jpeg

Key

Look at index

LATEX

A document preparation system for the TEX typesetting program.

Mac

Apple Macintosh is line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer.

. Seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac>

Mac OS X

The operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.

Mcrypt

A cryptographic library.

Mcrypt

The mcrypt PHP extension.

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.

Module

Some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.

Mysql

A multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS).

Mysqli

The improved mysql client PHP extension.

Mysql

The mysql client PHP extension.

Opendocument

Open standard for office documents.

OS X

Look at Mac OS X.

PDF

Portable Document Format is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing two dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent format.

PEAR

The PHP Extension and Application Repository.

PCRE

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP

PHP

Short for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessorâ€, is an open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, a broader range of software applications.

Port

A connection through which data is sent and received.

RFC

Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies.

RFC 1952

GZIP file format specification version 4.3

Row (record, tuple)

Represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.

Server

A computer system that provides services to other computing systems over a network.

Storage Engines

Handlers for different table types

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks.

Socket

A form of inter-process communication.

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication on the Internet.

Stored procedure

A subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system

SQL

Structured Query Language

Table

A set of data elements (cells) that is organized, defined and stored as horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely identified by a label or key or by it?S position in relation to other items.

Tar

A type of archive file format: the Tape archive format.

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite.

TCPDF

Rewrite of UFPDF with various improvements.

Trigger

A procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database

UFPDF

Unicode/UTF-8 extension for FPDF

URL

Uniform Resource Locator is a sequence of characters, conforming to a standardized format that is used for referring to resources, such as documents and images on the Internet, by their location.

Webserver

A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients and serving those Web pages.

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a W3C-recommended general- purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data.

ZIP

A popular data compression and archival format.

Zlib

An open-source, cross- platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.