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IWDN Acronym Glossary

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A

  • AFAICS - As Far As I Can See
  • AFAIK - As Far As I Know
  • ASP - Active Server Pages

B

  • BB - Bulletin Board
  • BTW - By The Way

C

  • CGI - Common Gateway Interface
  • CFM - ColdFusion Machine
  • CMS - Content Management System
  • CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
  • CVS - Concurrent Version System

D

  • DLL - Dynamic Link Library

E

F

  • FF - FireFox
  • FYI - For Your Information

G

H

  • HTH - Hope That Helps
  • HTML - HyperText Markup language
  • HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol

I

  • IE - Internet Explorer
  • IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
  • IMO - In My Opinion
  • IMHO - In My Honest/Humble Opinion
  • IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
  • IWDN - International Web Developers Network (site)

J

  • J2EE - Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
  • JK or J/K - Just Kidding, or Joke/Joking
  • JS - JavaScript

K

L

  • LGPL - Lesser General Public License
  • LMAO - Laugh[ed/ing] My Ass Off
  • LMFAO - Laughing My F****** Ass Off
  • LOL - Laugh[ed/ing] Out Loud

M

  • MOZ - Abbreviation for Mozilla
  • MVC - Model View Controller

N

  • NRN - No Reply Necessary
  • NT or N/T - No Text (used to fill the empty space of a message when the subject is used to convey the entire message do not use this)

O

  • OMFG - Oh My F****** God
  • OMG - Oh My God
  • OOP - Object Oriented Programming
  • OTP - One Time Password

P

  • PDFTT - Please Don't Feed The Troll
  • PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository
  • PECL - PEAR Extended Code Language
  • PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (the acronym is reused within the written version)

Q

  • QWERTY - Not actually an acronym, but the letters used to refer to the keyboard row associated with them (generally the top row of letters).

R

  • RCS - Revision Control System
  • RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
  • ROFL - Rolling On the Floor Laughing
  • ROFLMAO - Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
  • RSS - Really Simple Syndication
  • RTFM - Read The F****** Manual

S

  • SERF - Service Entry Resource Format
  • SMS - Short Message Service
  • STFU - Shut The F*** Up

T

  • TBA - To Be Announced
  • TBD - To Be Decided/Determined
  • TLS - Transaction Layer Security

U

V

  • VPN - Virtual Private Network
  • VPS - Virtual Private Server

W

  • WAMP - Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • WDG - Web Design Group (site)
  • WHT - Web Hosting Talk (site)
  • WTF - What The F***
  • WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
  • WYSINWOPG - What You See Is Not What Other People Get

X

  • XHTML - eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
  • XLST - eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
  • XML - eXtensible Markup Language

Y

Z