h1. Web Technology Acronyms and Terms bq. #todo - organize and add +Common Acronyms+ HTML - "HyperText Markup Language":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html CSS - "Cascading Style Sheets":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Css RSS - "Rich Site Summary":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS - sometimes _Really Simple Syndication_ CDN - "Change detection and notification":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_detection_and_notification REST - "Representational state transfer":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer CRUD - "Create, read, update and delete":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete JSON - "JavaScript Object Notation":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Json API - "Application programming interface":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api XML - "Extensible Markup Language":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml AJAX - "asynchronous JavaScript and XML":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) - (JSON is often used now instead XML) - example: "jQuery":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery CMS - "Content management system":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system KMS - "Knowledge management system":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Management_System AWS - "Amazon Web Services":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services EC2 - "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_EC2 S3 - "Amazon Simple Storage Service":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3 SQL - "Structured Query Language":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql OAuth - "open standard for authorization":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oauth - (OAuth2) OPML - "Outline Processor Markup Language":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opml regex - "regular expression":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regex RWD - "Responsive web design":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design RFC - "Request for Comments":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments SPA - "Single-page application":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_page_application YAML - "YAML Ain't Markup Language":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaml br. +Terms+ "Curl":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL "Git":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) "GitHub":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Github "Hashtag":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag "Javascript":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript "Haskell":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language) "Clojure":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure "Scala":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) "Blog":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog "Microblog":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblog "Internet Forum":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_board "MySQL":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql "NoSQL":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosql "Node.js":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejs "Object-oriented programming":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming "Functional programming":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming "Outliner":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner "Perl":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl "PHP":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php "Python":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language) "Ruby":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language) "Podcast":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast "Redis":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis "Memcached":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcache "Textile":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language) "Markdown":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown "Unicode":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode "Wiki":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki #technology - #programming - #design