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Glossary: Glossary of common terms

COMPUTING TERMS

	MLP by Dan Poltawski - Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 8:15 PM
	Mindless Link Propagation

	Oracle by Lionel Redelinghuys - Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:19 PM
	A commercial database management system like MS SQL with an Open Source leg.

	OS or Operating System by Jason Jolaoso - Thursday, 17 December 2015, 7:43 AM
	Operating System in computing is defined as a system software that: i.controls hardware and serves as interface between user and hardware. ii.controls input and output of data or infomation iii.serves as a platform for managing general applications/software or customized software

	PEAR by Helen Foster - Thursday, 30 June 2005, 1:44 PM
	An acronym for PHP Extension and Application Repository. PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. For more information see http://pear.php.net/.

	Plesk by Usman Asar - Wednesday, 8 June 2016, 8:43 PM
	Plesk is a commercial hosting management program that can be used to manage the account management interface. Plesk can be used for multiple distros of Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat, Cloud Linux, Debian) and Windows Server 2008 and 2012 servers.

	POC by Mark Johnson - Monday, 30 May 2011, 3:06 PM
	Proof Of Concept - a prototype created to show that an idea is technically fesible. While the prototype probably isn't suitable for real-world use, it provides a starting point for discussion and design of a real solution.

	PostgreSQL by Andrew McMillan - Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 4:56 PM
	PostgreSQL is a full-featured open-source database with many enterprise features, including: Support for database transactions Strong support for SQL-92 standard Native external interfaces for ODBC, JDBC, C, C++, PHP, Perl, TCL, Python and Ruby Referential integrity Internal functions can be written in C, C++, Java, Perl, TCL, Python, Ruby, PHP and PL/PgSQL Insert/Update/Delete Triggers Inheritance Unicode Extensible data types Indexes on functions PostgreSQL scales well into large multi-user environments, where the application has significantly intermixed reading and writing activity. See http://www.postgresql.org/ for more information.

	Postnuke by Sam Mudle - Friday, 13 January 2006, 4:26 PM
	Postnuke is a free, open source, database driven php website. Many Moodle people use postnuke as a front end page to forums, calendars, guestbook and other non-education specific activities. There are literaly thousands of free themes, and hundreds of open source modules that a postnuke site can use. However, the administration and permission system UI for postnuke can be daunting for newbies, and often requires some basic knowledge of php coding to implement many tasks. http://www.postnuke.com/ A great website for educators to start at is the postnuke education forum.

	Production Site by Colin Fraser - Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:18 PM
	A production site is site that is publicly operating, it has courses and is being used by anyone enrolled.

	RSS by Robert Leskovar - Friday, 25 June 2004, 3:15 AM
	RSS is a Web content syndication format. Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. Subordinate to the <rss> element is a single <channel> element, which contains information about the channel (metadata) and its contents. (extracted from http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss)