Questions tagged [terminology]

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What does the NS prefix mean?

asked 2009-01-23T17:22:44.037

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Polymorphism - Define In Just Two Sentences

oop polymorphism terminology

asked 2009-01-03T22:06:40.310

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To what does "zero day" refer?

security terminology exploit

asked 2009-01-03T20:48:15.633

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What's the difference between faking, mocking, and stubbing?

unit-testing mocking language-agnostic terminology definition

asked 2008-12-06T15:17:46.203

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What is "business intelligence" software?

terminology

asked 2008-11-17T15:51:47.000

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What is LTS (Long Term Support)?

ubuntu terminology lts

asked 2008-11-14T09:08:53.820

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In source-control terminology what is a spike?

version-control terminology cvs

asked 2008-11-11T23:01:18.000

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Making a system call that returns the stdout output as a string

language-agnostic terminology

asked 2008-10-25T17:44:53.717

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What's the difference between a proxy server and a reverse proxy server?

proxy webserver terminology reverse-proxy

asked 2008-10-22T06:27:32.923

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What is spaghetti code?

terminology anti-patterns

asked 2008-10-12T14:04:49.447

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7

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What is a Lambda?

language-agnostic lambda computer-science terminology

asked 2008-09-29T18:56:51.110

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What are futures?

computer-science terminology future

asked 2008-09-17T06:07:58.163

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What is a monad?

haskell functional-programming monads terminology

asked 2008-09-04T23:26:44.767

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What is 'Currying'?

javascript functional-programming terminology definition currying

asked 2008-08-30T20:12:55.867

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What is a race condition?

multithreading concurrency terminology race-condition

asked 2008-08-29T15:55:10.457

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What is Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) and who supports it?

database deadlock terminology

asked 2008-08-26T07:04:21.657

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What is Inversion of Control?

oop design-patterns language-agnostic inversion-of-control terminology

asked 2008-08-06T03:35:27.380

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What are MVP and MVC and what is the difference?

user-interface model-view-controller design-patterns terminology mvp

asked 2008-08-05T10:06:33.020

Questions tagged terminology