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AJAX
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It's a development technique that mixes (X)HTML, JavaScript, CSS, DOM, XML and XSLT to create interactive Web applications.
Apache
Apache is one of the the world's most widely used Web servers. Originally developed in 1995 by a group that was to go on to become the The Apache Group, the Apache HTTP Server is Open Source Software, and considered by proponents to be fast, scalable and secure. The name was derived from the project's less robust beginnings ('A patchy Web server').
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CSS
Cascading Style Sheets for a set of formatting rules interpreted by the Web browser (or other client) that may contain the styling and formatting information intended for the presentation of a Web page. The W3C recommends the use of CSS to help keep Web content (HTML/XHTML) separate from its formatting information.
chmod
chmod is a Unix/Linux shell command used to change permissions on files. Its name is a contraction of "change mode."
Related articles: Changing File Permissions
cPanel
cPanel (control panel) is a graphical web-based management tool, designed to make administration of web sites as easy as possible. cPanel handles all aspects of website administration in an easy-to-use interface.
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DOM
A DOM, or Document Object Model, is a tree representation of the structure of a Web document that may be used via scripts to access and manipulate any element within that page.
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File Comparison
File comparison tools are programs that enable you to compare two files to see the differences. Some of the ones we recommned are: Winmerge
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HTML
HTML, orHyperText Markup Language, is the language that Web developers and designers use to create Web pages and format content for display in Web browsers.
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JavaScript
Originally developed by Netscape Communications and since adopted as a Web standard, JavaScript is a cross-platform, world wide web scripting language most commonly (but not exclusively) used for client side applications.
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LAMP
LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) is a popular Open Source Website platform combination of Operating System (Linux), Web server (Apache), database (MySQL) and scripting language (PHP).
Linux
An Open Source computing platform based on the robust core of commercial Unix systems. Developed by a Finnish programmer named Linus Torvalds in the early 90's, the Linux core is typically distributed with hundreds of other 'packages', commonly known as GNU/Linux. There are dozens of popular distributions (or 'flavours') of GNU/Linux such as the popular RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware and Debian. GNU/Linux is become popular because it is free, flexible and secure.
Localhost
"Localhost" is an alias for the address 127.0.0.1, an address that always indicates the local computer. This is the address that a computer can use to refer to itself. For example, when testing a Web application on the same computer as the server, you can use the address http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost.
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MySQL
MySQL (pronounced "My-Ess-Kew-El") is a free, open source database, commonly employed with most of the popular server-side scripting languages including PHP, JSP, and ASP.
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PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially well-suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, and manage keys on fields.
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Query string
In the World Wide Web, a query string is the part of a URL that contains data to be passed to PHP programs.
When a web page is requested via the HyperText Transfer Protocol, the server locates a file in its file system based on the requested URL. This file may be a regular file or a program. In the second case, the server may (depending on its configuration) run the program, sending its output as the required page. The query string is a part of the URL which is passed to the program. This way, the URL can encode some data that is accessible to the program generating the web page.
Related Sites: Wiki Description
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Unix
UNIX is a commonly used multi-user, multitasking Operating System. The UNIX trademark and specification is owned by The Open Group and the specification is freely available on the web. The SCO Group, Inc. nows owns the original implementation of Unix. However, a number of other operating systems also adhere to the Simple Unix Specification in part including Project GNU, and GNU/Linux.
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XHTML
XHTML combines XML and HTML 4 to provide developers with a language that conforms to the XML format, as opposed to HTML which is based on SGML. XML is much simpler to parse than SGML, and standards exist such as XSLT, XPath, and XQuery for manipulating XML documents. Unfortunately, support for XHTML in browsers is poor, with the leading browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, not supporting the XHTML mime type 'application/xhtml+xml'.
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an extremely simple dialect of SGML. The goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML [XML] has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.
XSL
Extensible Stylesheet Language, or XSL, is a language that describes how XML content is to be formatted.
XUL
XUL( eXtensible User Interface Language; also 'XML-based User-Interface Language'), pronounced "Zool", is a standards-based language developed as a framework for executing applications within the Mozilla browser, just as you might run programs in the Java and .NET runtime environments.