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ADC—Creating RESTful Web Service Clients in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
by karlcow
So that you can play along at home and test out the code samples in this article, we’ve created a simple web application, based on Ruby on Rails, that implements a RESTful web service. The first step is to download the web application named countries (.DMG, 600 KB). It is based on a simple, database of public domain data containing four fields: A country index, country name, gross domestic product, and two-character country abbreviation.
2008
ActiveState - Free the dragon! - Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages
by oqdbpo
& 1 other
Latest Release: Komodo Edit 4.3
Komodo Edit is now free and open source!
New Find in Project feature adds strength to your search so you can quickly locate the code you're looking for.
New Replace in Files makes global code changes simple (and the preview makes it safe).
New Abbreviation feature inserts snippets from your toolbox at the touch of a key.
2007
Acronym and abbreviation dictionary: Find out what over 4,181,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms stand for
by dimitrich
& 24 others
(via)
With more than 575,000 human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations.
Formula One Losses Trademark Fight :: PaddockTalk :: F1, NASCAR, GP2, Champ Car, IndyCar, ALMS and More! If It Goes Fast...We're Talking About It!!
by pmdm
Formula One Licensing has failed in a bid to gain exclusive control of the descriptor 'F1'.
FOL, which is the brand exploitation division of the Formula One group run by Bernie Ecclestone, made a trademark application for the abbreviation for a range of goods to the UK Trademark Registry.
The application was opposed by the French racing website Racing-Live SA.
Xvid.org: General Info
by cyberien
Xvid is a video codec for PC, whereas codec is an abbreviation for [co]der/[dec]oder, hence describes a program to encode and decode digital video. The purpose of encoding video data is to reduce redundancies – that means to make it smaller for faster transmission over computer networks or for more efficient storage on computer disks.
Hence, Xvid can somewhat be seen as a ZIP for video. But unlike ZIP, Xvid is not lossless. That means that a video after compression and decompression with Xvid won't be identical to the original source. Typically however, a difference to the source is visually imperceptible.
So Xvid removes information that is not important for human perception, which is somewhat similar to MP3 for audio. This enables very high compression rates that allow to effectively work with digital video on home computers at all. To give an example: uncompressed digital video is huge and requires about 100 GB per hour at PAL resolution. The same video would require just 500 MB per hour at very high quality when compressed with Xvid. That is a compression ratio of 200:1.
Xvid is Free Software and released under the GNU GPL license. This means that the source code of the software is publically available and programmers are allowed to make modifications to the code. Also, redistribution of Xvid is permitted but only under the terms of the GPL license.
MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
by rmaltete
The abbreviation MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X! MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.
WebAPP
by web-app
WebAPP is a popular, open source Content Management System (cms) written in the Perl programming language. The name WebAPP is an abbreviation of Web Automated Perl Portal. Available under the GNU General Public License, WebAPP is free software. Features Enhanced crypt, Articles, Forums and nested message boards, Private Instant Messaging system (IM), Who is Online, Profile info, Memberlist, sortable with links to IM, Profile and Email Download and Link sections, Stats with advanced sorting options, Webabsed Site Administration control panel, About, Contact and Help pages, Custom Welcome messages for guests and registered members. Languages The WebAPP script is available in these languages Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Ladino, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Thai, Swedish, Vietnamese and Yiddish.
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2006
Why did we come up with a name like Geesee?
by geesee
Geesee is the phonetic spelling of GC. GC is an abbreviation of the words Global Chat.
So it should be pronounced – the way you would say the letters “GC”: Jisi. At least that’s the way we like to pronounce it.
Acronym and abbreviation dictionary: Find out what over 2,981,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms stand for
by sebadupre
& 24 others
Dictionnaire intégrant un moteur de recherche qui pemet d'obtenir les définitions de plus de 480000 acronymes et abréviations.
2005
XML and Web Service Glossary
by nhoizey
& 3 others
Welcome to dret's XML and Web Service glossary. The abbreviation index (shown below) provides a concise list of all abbreviations, while the individual letter indices (always accessible via the letter bar) list the full names as well.
miniBB - The Bulletin Bird (free mysql php bulletin board and forum software)
by remouk
& 6 others
(via)
miniBB (an abbreviation of "minimalist bulletin board") is a flat-type (not threaded) bulletin board, discussion forums software, written in PHP and using mySQL or another PHP-compatible database as data backend.
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