h1. Tech Acronyms and Terms 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 #technology - #programming - #design 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 br. +Terms+ "Curl":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL