Glossary

Find out the meaning of web development terms here:

Web Development Glossary

foo bar

The terms foo bar are used to take the place of unknown values in computer programming documentation where the purpose of them are understood but their precise values are arbitrary. The words themselves have no meaning

Lorem ipsum

The text used in publishing and graphic design to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation. Although "lorem ipsum" look like Latin, it is not intended to have meaning. People see the presentation will focus on design and lorem ipsum also approximates a typical distribution of spaces in English

mod_rewrite

the rewrite engine that modifies URL's appearance to provide short and more relevant-looking to web pages. Example: http://www.goonple.com/post.php?title=mod_rewrite is rewritten in http://www.goonple.com/post/mod_rewrite

Permalink

or Permanent Link is a URL that has been rewritten to a form for human-readable. Permalink alway used in modern blog and forum.

Sandbox

an online environment in which code or content changes can be tested without affecting the original system

Time to live

abbr: TTL a limit on the period of time or number of iterations or transmissions in computer and computer network technology that a unit of data can experience before it should be discarded. TTL of DNS records is the time that nameserver caching resource record

TTL

see: Time to live

Gloss Plugin made by: Joe Casabona