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mail server (mail transfer/transport agent, MTA, mail router, Internet mailer)
A mail server (also known as a mail transfer agent or MTA, a mail transport agent, a mail router or an Internet mailer) is an application that receives incoming e-mail from local users (people within the same domain) and remote senders and forwards ... Continue Reading
Ruby on Rails (RoR or Rails)
Ruby on Rails is an open-source framework for database-backed web development in Ruby, an object-oriented programming language similar to Perl and Python...(Continued) Continue Reading
blogosphere
Blogosphere is a term some writers have used to describe the grassroots and interactive journalism made possible by participants in blogs (logs or journals maintained on the Internet) and the symbiotic relationship between bloggers and traditional ... Continue Reading
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Dublin Core
Dublin Core is an initiative to create a digital "library card catalog" for the Web. Continue Reading
XFDL (Extensible Forms Description Language)
Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) is a use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) that provides a standard way to define the data fields and layout for a complex business or government form for digital storage and display. Continue Reading
EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing)
(EPIC also stand for Electronic Privacy Information Center.Continue Reading
explicit parallelism
Explicit parallelism is a concept of processor-compiler efficiency in which a group of instructions is sent from the compiler to the processor for simultaneous rather than sequential execution.Continue Reading
Bean
In its JavaBeans application program interface for writing a component, Sun Microsystems calls a component a "Bean" (thus continuing their coffee analogy).Continue Reading
HP-GL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language)
HP-GL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) is a vector graphics language, a type of object-oriented language that represents images through the use of geometrical formulas.Continue Reading
native code
Native code is computer programming (code) that is compiled to run with a particular processor and its set of instructions.Continue Reading
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stove-piped development
In engineering and information technology, stove-piped development is an approach in which improvements are considered only within the existing and technologically familiar context.Continue Reading
refactoring
Refactoring is "the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure," according to Martin Fowler, the "father" of refactoring.Continue Reading
2005 in Review, 2006 in Preview
In order to put 2005 in perspective, we at SearchWebServices.com have put together a four-part Year in Review section, covering more than 90 of our top news stories from the past year. In addition, we've talked to four of the leading experts in the ...Continue Reading
Financial Services Markup Language (FSML)
FSML (Financial Services Markup Language) is a data description language based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) that was developed to create financial documents for delivery over the Internet, including eCheck and their associated ...Continue Reading
data source object (DSO)
A data source object (DSO) is a Microsoft ActiveX object embedded within a Web page. It employs a process called data binding, in which an ActiveX control communicates directly with another Web page, or with an external XML data source.Continue Reading