Julean's Dictionary. I love my American Heritage Dictionary, I like them all, just have a American Heritage I use a lot. My Glossary of terms is more about web technology, but some of my favorite words directly quoted from the dictionary or words that I find that have some symbolic timely profound meaning.
(I am starting a code library that will reference this glossary to.)

A great dictionary and thesaurus you can run within a program or on it's own. Includes 120,000 root words and 100,000 synonym sets. The best part, it's free! WordWeb at: http://www.Antonylewis.com..

Another source for looking up words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page And of course there is www.answers.com. I highly recomend their 1-Click Answers™ 2.3 software for FREE, and then Alt-Click on any word in any program on your screen for a pop-up window with a concise AnswerTip. http://www.answers.com/main/download_answers_win.jsp

I also include a lot of resource links to developers, data centers, interesting articles and what have you, that are in fact free. I'm not selling anything here, nor do I get a commission on any link you go to (except for google AdSense). This is a free source for finding the facts, opinions and projections on web technology.

A

aberrant  u'berrant

1. A person whose behavior departs substantially from the standard.
2. A person like Julean.

acrid  akrid

1: Strong and sharp
2: Harsh or corrosive in tone.
3: The woman in Julean's life.

AdWords

Google's trademarked name of its PPC advertisement system. You can advertise on Google SERPs and its partner sites through the AdSense program (as you see to the right) and pay for only clicks made on your advertisement.

With properly written title and description, and well chosen keywords and bid prices, AdWord can be an effective and economical way to drive pre-qualified targetted traffic to your web site.

a href

A link (html code) if clicked connects to the URL (Universal Resource Locator). See URL

AJAX

Is an acronym for "Asynchronous JavaScript And XML." That's a bit of a mouthful. As the term AJAX has become more widespread, its definition has expanded to refer more generally to browser-based applications that behave much more dynamically than old-school web apps. This new crop of AJAX web applications make more extensive use of interaction techniques like edit-in-place text, drag-and-drop, and CSS animations or transitions to effect changes within the user interface.

Learn more at: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/build-your-own-ajax-web-apps

ambiguous  am'bigyoous

Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead.

API

An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that an operating system or library provides to support requests for services to be made of it by computer programs.

arbitrary  'aabu`treree

Based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice. "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves"

array

assortment of. new Array(); var a=0; var b=0; var c=0; var d=0

ASP

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side technology for dynamically-generated web pages that is marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS).

Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functionality useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 3.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Application Center Test is also available for load testing.

Most ASP pages are written in VBScript, but any other Active Scripting engine can be selected instead by using the @Language directive. JScript (Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript or JavaScript) is the other language that is usually available. PerlScript (Perl) and others are available as third-party installable Active Scripting engines.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a set of web development technologies marketed by Microsoft. Programmers can use it to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.

asynchronous  ey'singkrunus

(digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself.

avatar  `avu'taar

One regarded as the incarnation or embodiment of some known model or category.
An icon or animation to represent a participant used in Internat chat and games.

awe

1. An emotion of mingled reverence, dread and wonder inspired by something majestic or subline.
2. Respect, tinged with fear, for authority.

B

bandwidth

In web hosting term, bandwidth normally refers to limit on the amount of data that can be transfer to and from a web site through the web hosting company within any given month. Many web hosts offers around 50GB of data transfer (or bandwidth) in typical package which is more than plenty for most web sites.

In a more general term, bandwidth is the total data transfer available for use by a computer. In a person's home, a dialup modem is a low bandwidth connection and a DSL or cable connection is a high bandwidth connection.

bmp

Windows bitmap, an image file format or .DIB (device-independent bitmap). I don't use them as usually there not compressed, so they are typically much larger than compressed image file formats for the same image.

blog

An on-line journal. LiveJournal is a simple-to-use communication tool that lets you express yourself and connect with friends online. You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a social network and much more. I've have kept a journal for over 38 years. (1978) It was the way an artist draw out our idea's. My first computer journal I started was in shortly after getting into computer graphics. And of course was my own creation and still is to this day.

boolean

true/false

C

canonical  ku'nónikul

1. Appearing in a Biblical canon "a canonical book of the Christian New Testament"
2. Of or relating to or required by canon law
3. Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality "a canonical syllable pattern"
4. Conforming to orthodox or recognized rules "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"

CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA's Form Processing Image Verification
("CAPTCHA" is an acronym for: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)

Reload Image

CAPTCHA is used to prevent automated software from performing actions which degrade the quality of service of a given system, whether due to abuse or resource expenditure. Although CAPTCHAs are most often deployed as a response to encroachment by commercial interests, the notion that they exist to stop only spammers is mistaken. CAPTCHAs can be deployed to protect systems vulnerable to e-mail spam, such as your e-mail server. CAPTCHAs have also found active use in stopping automated posting to blogs or forums, whether as a result of commercial promotion, or harassment and vandalism. CAPTCHAs also serve an important function in rate limiting, as automated usage of a service might be desirable until such usage is done in excess, and to the detriment of human users. In such a case, a CAPTCHA can enforce automated usage policies as set by the administrator when certain usage metrics exceed a given threshold.

The Goal of our CAPTCHA SCRIPT is to stop spammers, and automated programs or scripts from making post and/or submitting an online form.

CMS

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is sometimes a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. They can also be used for storage and single sourcing of documentation for a firm including but not limited to operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, etc. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available.

The term was originally used for website publishing and management systems. Early content management systems were developed internally at organizations which were doing a lot of content publishing. In 1995, CNET spun out its internal development offerings into a separate company called Vignette, which opened up the market for commercial systems. As the market evolved, the scope of content management systems broadened, and the term is now used to refer to a range of technologies and techniques, including portal systems, wiki systems, and web-based groupware.

CSS

Cascading StyleSheets
Example:

	<style type="text/css">
	 b   { font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 24px; color: blue; }
	 </style>
	 

You can do a lot with this language that goes inside a html It takes graphics to a whole new level.
The code goes between </TITLE> and the </HEAD> tags. The example above tells any bold tag <b> within an html to show the font as Arial or Helvetica, the same thing as some computers go by different names for the same font, then the font size to be 24 pixels in height and the color blue.

Example of dragonbody.com css

<style type="text/css">
A:link {text-decoration:none}
A:visited {text-decoration:none}
A:hover {color:#0000FF}
/* DEFAULT STYLES ---- NEEEDED START */
.clCMEvent{position:absolute; width:99%; height:99%; clip:rect(0,100%,100%,0); left:0; top:0; visibility:visible}
.clCMAbs{position:absolute; visibility:hidden; left:0; top:0}
/* DEFAULT STYLES ---- NEEEDED END */
.clT,.clTover,.clS,.clSover,.clS2,.clS2over{position:absolute; width:120; font-family:arial,helvetica; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand}
.clT,.clTover {padding:4px; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold}
.clS,.clSover {padding:2px; font-size:11px; font-weight:bold}
.clS2,.clS2over{padding:2px; font-size:11px}
.clT,.clS,.clS2 {color:#400040; background-color:#CDDBEB; layer-background-color:#800040}
.clTover {color:#FCCE55; background-color:#336699; layer-background-color:#008080}
.clSover {color:white; background-color:#400040; layer-background-color:#008080}
.clS2{background-color:silver; width:230; layer-background-color:silver}
.clS2over {color:white; background-color:#000066; width:230; layer-background-color:#008080}
.clStest{position:absolute; font-family:verdana; font-size:10px; color:black; layer-background-color:silver; background-color:silver;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand}
.clStestover{position:absolute; color:#ffff33; font-weight:bold; font-family:courier; layer-background-color:#008080; background-color:#00ccff; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand}
.clB1 {position:absolute; background-color:#996600; layer-background-color:#ff9933; visibility:hidden}
.clB2 {position:absolute; background-color:#996600; layer-background-color:#996600; visibility:hidden}
.clB3 {position:absolute; background-color:#996600; layer-background-color:red; visibility:hidden}
.clB {position:absolute; background-color:#996600; layer-background-color:#336699; visibility:hidden}
.clBar{position:absolute; background-color:#336699; layer-background-color:#336699; visibility:hidden; width:10; height:10}
.clNoLink {position:absolute; font-family:arial,helvetica}
.clNoLink2{position:absolute; padding:2px; font-size:11px; color:#006699; layer-background-color:silver; background-color:silver; font-family:arial,helvetica}
.clNoLink3{position:absolute; background-color:#CDDBEB; layer-background-color:#CDDBEB; font-family:arial,helvetica}
.bb2 {position:absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; z-index:2; Filter:Chroma(color=#FFFFFF) Alpha(Opacity=20)}
#dropText{width:900px; height:60px; font-family:arial; font-size:30px; letter-spacing:5px; line-height:80px; filter:shadow(direction=90)}
#glowText{width:620px; height:10px; filter:glow(color=#FFFFFF,strenght=0)}
</style>

Note: You can also hide this code by making .css or .cs file and make a link to that file.
<link href="myStyleName.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Learn more about css at: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Also a great site for: CSS Formatter and Optimiser at: http://www.cleancss.com/ and get your CSS validated at:

cookies

Text files downloaded onto a visitor's computer hard drive to store the visitor's actions in order to better customise their following visits.

D

Dhtml

Dynamic Hyper Text Mark-up Language uses CSS and JavaScript to make all kinds of things move around or amimate on a html page.
Dynamic HTML is a term used to describe HTML pages with dynamic content. CSS is one of three components in dynamic HTML; the other two are HTML itself and JavaScript (which is being standardized under the name EcmaScript). The three components are glued together with DOM, the Document Object Model. You can find lots of free dhtml scripts at:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
http://DHTMLCentral.com/
http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/
http://simplythebest.net
http://www.hotscripts.com

DOM

Document Object Model. Windows, each window you open is a DOM. Each window has a name so you can control one window from an another. Each window is refered to as a document. To address one document to another. The word parent. must precced the name of the page followed by .document when referring to another window (child). I named 'browser page'

• Example:
  parent.browser_page.document.bgColor

domain name

A unique identifier which assigns a name to a specific IP address ie: renegademusik.com. Since IP addresses are merely strings of numbers, the Domain Name system was developed to facilitate ease of recognition and recall of site addresses. (read below - DNS)

DNS

The domain name system (DNS) is an Internet service that translates domain names like (julean.net) into IP addresses (204.160.88.11). We use domain names because people can remember words better than numbers, but Web servers still need the IP numbers to access the page. Every time you use a domain name, a DNS server must translate the name into the corresponding IP (Internet Protocol) address.

Important categories of data stored in the DNS include the following:
An A Record or address record maps a hostname to a 32-bit IPv4 address.
A CNAME Record or canonical name record makes one domain name an alias of another. The aliased domain gets all the subdomains and DNS records of the original.
An MX Record or mail exchange record maps a domain name to a list of mail exchange servers for that domain.

DNSBL

DNSBL is a mechanism by which the Domain Name System (DNS) can be queried for details of a hostname.

From: sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net

USING DNS Block Lists (DNSBL) WITH THE NMS guestbook
===================================================

DNSBL is a mechanism by which the Domain Name System (DNS) can be queried for details of a hostname in a particular format, the presence of which indicates that the host is of interest to the creators of the queried list. The DNSBL system was originally created to control spam (and other material from unwanted sources) passing through mail servers. It is only concerned with the source of the internet request (that is for instance the last mail server a message passed through before reaching the one that is doing the check.) The query is performed on the IP address of the host in question and the hostname queried for is of the form:

4.3.2.1.dnsbl.zone.

where the address that is being checked is 1.2.3.4 and the dnsbl zone (the name of the DNSBL in the terms of the DNS configuration) is called 'dnsbl.zone'.

Quite a number of DNSBLs, with a variety of purpose, have been developed over the years: there are lists that have all the IP addresses that are are allocated to dial-up internet users and lists of insecure e-mail servers (known as Opem SMTP relays) or servers that have been confirmed as the source of spam, these are all used in various places to control the delivery of e-mail. There is even a DNSBL that returns a positive result for any IP address - but this is probably only useful for testing purposes.

Increasingly spammers and crackers are using insecure servers that will disguise their origin (known as 'Open HTTP proxies') or computers that have been previously cracked or infected with a virus in such a way that they can be operated as such a proxy in order to attempt to post spam messages to your message board or guestbook.

guestbook has the facility to perform a DNSBL query against a specified zone (or zones) for the address of the requesting client and to decline the request if the clients address has an entry in the configured DNSBL (the configuration variable '@use_rbls' is discussed in the README.) By specifying a DNSBL zone that contains a list of open proxies and/or exploited machines it is probable that the number of bogus spam attempt messages that are successfully post to your message will be reduced. It would probably be counter-productive to use a DNSBL that listed dial-up (or otherwise dynamically allocated) addresses on the other hand.

Because there may be a significant delay in performing the required DNS lookup on the specified DNSBL zone this configuration should be done cautiously, the request may wait for a long time if the server that provides a DNSBL is unavailable or overloaded (and it should be noted that because the DNSBL often interferes with the smooth working of spamming operations these servers tend to become the victim of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks intended to render the servers inoperable.)

Ideally you should check frequently at the web site of the provider of a DNSBL to confirm its status and amend your configuation accordingly.

Currently NMS would recommend using the single DNSBL 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org' however below is a list of some of the available DNSBLs - you are strongly encouraged to check their policy before using them.

* Spamhaus Block List <http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL/> sbl.spamhaus.org
* Relay Stop List <http://relays.visi.com/> relays.visi.com
* Pan-American Dailup List <http://www.pan-am.ca/pdl/> dialups.visi.com
* Open Relay Database <http://www.ordb.org/> relays.ordb.org
* Not Just Another Bogus List <http://njabl.org/> dnsbl.njabl.org
* Extreme Spam Blocking List <http://www.selwerd.cx/xbl/> xbl.selwerd.cx
* <http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php> blackholes.five-ten-sg.com
* SpamCop Block List <http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml> bl.spamcop.net
* Habeas Infringers List <http://www.habeas.com/services/infringers.htm> hil.habeas.com
* RFC-Ignorant ipwhois list <http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-ipwhois.php> ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org
* Open Proxy Monitor List <http://www.blitzed.org/opm/> wingate.opm.blitzed.org
socks.opm.blitzed.org
http.opm.blitzed.org
opm.blitzed.org

This is far from an exhaustive list of available DNSBLs, please feel free to contact the nms-cgi-support@lists.sf.net for more information or to add more suitable DNSBLs to the list.

$Id: README.dnsbl,v 1.1 2005/07/13 08:23:08 gellyfish Exp $

DSN

A Data Source Name, or DSN, is how you reference your database in your ASP applications. The DSN describes important information about your database, including the path where it resides as well as the ODBC driver that should be used to access it.

Each Guestbook on all sites I've created has an dataBase ~ that you can also edit.
The path $guestlog = '/web/mypass_word/yoursite.com/public_shtml/gsbk/guestbklog.html'

E

EarthPages

Earthpages is about dialogue, understanding and positive change. http://epages.wordpress.com/

eclectic

Choosing what appears to be the best from diverse sources, systems, or styles. Consisting of that which has been selected from diverse sources. One who follows an eclectic method.

eke

To supplement with great effort; strain to fill out.

EV

Extended Validation Certificates - Only CAs who pass an independent audit as part of their WebTrust (or equivalent) review may offer EV, and all CAs globally must follow the same detailed issuance requirements which aim to:
* Establish the legal identity as well as the operational and physical presence of website owner;
* Establish that the applicant is the domain name owner or has exclusive control over the domain name;
* Confirm the identity and authority of the individuals acting for the website owner, and that documents pertaining to legal obligations are signed by an authorised officer.
User interface
Browsers with EV support will display more information for EV certificates than for previous SSL certificates. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 is the first browser to be EV-ready, although in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the Phishing Filter must be turned on to properly display it. Firefox 3.0 (Beta 3 and higher) and Opera 9.5 includes EV support as well.
Microsoft demonstration website for Extended Validation certificates. "Woodgrove Bank" is not an actual business
Example of the Extended Validation UI in Firefox 3 (note the address bar no longer turns yellow to indicate a secure connection)
VeriSign has issued a controversial add-on for Mozilla's Firefox browser to provide EV support for certificates issued by its CAs only. When they receive an EV certificate:
* The address bar will turn green.
* A special label will appear that periodically alternates between the name/summarised address of the website owner, and the CA that issued their certificate.

F

favicon

A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface.
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Forms

Examples of forms
Radio buttons
checkbox textarea Pull down menu • CSS • Dhtml homepg1a homepg1b homepg1b homepg1d See my page on forms

fortitude  `fortï tood

Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage

FoxPro

Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984; Fox Software merged with Microsoft in 1992 and the software acquired further features and the prefix "Visual". The last version of FoxPro (2.6) worked under Mac OS, DOS, Windows, and Unix: Visual FoxPro 3.0, the first "Visual" version, dropped the platform support to only Mac and Windows, and later versions were Windows-only. The current version of Visual FoxPro is COM-based and Microsoft has stated that they do not intend to create a Microsoft .NET version.

FoxPro is a member of the class of languages commonly referred to as "xBase" languages, which have syntax based on the dBase programming language. Other members of the xBase language family include Clipper and Recital. (A history of the early years of xBase can be found in the dBASE entry).

Visual FoxPro, commonly abbreviated to VFP, is typically viewed by the general public as being merely a Database Management System (DBMS). This ignores the fact that it includes not only a DBMS engine, but also a full-featured Programming Language, as well. It can be used to write not just traditional fat client applications, but also middleware and web applications.

Frames

My best example of a simple two framed page is my help file.

<html>
<head>
<title>Julean's Help Files</title>
</head>
<frameset>
<frameset cols="20%,80%">
<frame src="help_index.html" name="help_index" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="info.html" name="help_page" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
</frameset>
</frameset>
</html>

FTP Client

File Transfer Protocol, a program that allows you to upload files from your computer to a server (internet host).

A nice free one is Smart FTP you can down load at http://www.smartftp.com/download/

functions

JavaScript Example

G

gif

An image file name, .gif (Graphics Interchange Format) Great for cut outs with a transparent background.
Oh! there's two different gif's, the other is 'animated gif' see - ying-yang.

Global Statistics

See: GeoHive, a site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena; ....... and yet, even more.

http://geohive.com

GUI

A GUI (usually pronounced GOO-ee) is a Graphical (rather than purely textual) User Interface to a computer. As you read this, you are looking at the GUI or graphical user interface of your particular Web browser. The term came into existence because the first interactive user interfaces to computers were not graphical; they were text-and-keyboard oriented and usually consisted of commands you had to remember and computer responses that were infamously brief.

H

HTML

Hyper Text Mark-up Language
A program language that make web pages for the internet.
Here's what a blank basic page looks like

	   <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
	<html>
	<head>
	   <title></title>
	</head>
	<body>
	</body>
	</html>
	

All web pages are htmls and can be viewed by right clicking your mouse on that page and from the pop up window select View Source. Note Pad will open atomaticaly and you see the writen code that's makes the html page your viewing.
NOTE: You can also edit or write an html page from note pad. Save as .html after the name or title of your file. ie, Jigaboo.html

Get your html pages validated at: W3C. Click on the icon to the right.

I

ico

An image tag for icon (favorite icon) <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://julean.net/favicon.ico">
If you save my site in your favorites or book mark it, this little eye-con (heehee) will precede Creative Artist Julean. I didn't just name it Julean as there seems to many sites to complete with, like the Julian Calender.

A free site for making a favicon at: favicon.ico Maker

iframe

<iframe width="300" height="300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?"></iframe>

img

An image tag for importing a image in a html page. <img src="your_image_name".jpg. gif, .bmp, or .png

IP

Internet Protocol
TCP/IP overview
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the most popular network protocol, and the basis for the Internet. Its routing capabilities provide maximum flexibility in an enterprise-wide network. In Windows XP TCP/IP is automatically installed.

IT

Information Technology is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms, including those not yet conceived). It's a convenient term for including both telephony and computer technology in the same word. It is the technology that is driving what has often been called "the information revolution."

J

Java

A program language used in many aplications from software development, consumer electronics like your cell phone to internet solutions such as a online shopping and data base update. Many companies use Java because it is platform independence meaning it can run on any computer from the PC, Mac to huge mainframes.

JavaScript

A program language used within an html. <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> JavaScript and Java are not related. they are two different types of languages.

A sample of some basic JavaSript with the code that makes it work click here

JavaScript Reference http://www.javascriptkit.com/jsref/

jpg

Pronounced as j-peg. the image extention file name. For example "<img src="my_butt.jpg">

jsp

JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java technology that allows software developers to dynamically generate HTML, XML or other types of documents in response to a Web client request. The technology allows Java code and certain pre-defined actions to be embedded into static content.

The JSP syntax adds additional XML-like tags, called JSP actions, to be used to invoke built-in functionality. Additionally, the technology allows for the creation of JSP tag libraries that act as extensions to the standard HTML or XML tags. Tag libraries provide a platform independent way of extending the capabilities of a Web server.

JSPs are compiled into Java Servlets by a JSP compiler. A JSP compiler may generate a servlet in Java code that is then compiled by the Java compiler, or it may generate byte code for the servlet directly.

"JavaServer Pages" is a technology released by Sun.

JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.

More info at: http://www.json.org/

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC by Julius Caesar and took force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus. It has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day is added to February every four years. Hence the Julian year is on average 365.25 days long.

Before the new calendar took effect, the start of the calendar year (1 January) was realigned to the tropical year by making 46 BC 445 days long. The Julian months were formed by adding 10 days to the months of the regular pre-Julian Roman year of 355 days. Two extra days were added to January, July and December, and one extra day was added to April, June, September and November. Macrobius states that the extra days were added immediately before the last day of each month to avoid disturbing the position of the established Roman fasti (days prescribed for certain events) relative to the start of the month. However, since Roman dates after the Ides of the month counted down towards the start of the next month, the extra days had the effect of raising the initial value of the count for the day after the Ides.

More on this article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calender

K

Kabbalah  ku'baalu

The way of the jewish mystic. Refered to as the Tree of Life. An esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries.

L

LAN

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a home, office, or college. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched Ethernet or Wi-Fi technology running at 10, 100 or 1,000 Mbit/s (1,000 Mbit/s is also known as 1 Gbit/s).

The defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to WANs (wide area networks) are: a) much higher data rates, b) smaller geographic range - at most a few kilometers - and c) they do not involve leased telecommunication lines. "LAN" usually does not refer to data running over local analog telephone lines, as on a private branch exchange (PBX).

lock file

.lck file. A file that can be updated by multiple processes must be locked to ensure that only a single process can update it at any given time. Lock files are a simple locking technique that associates a data file with another file serving as a lock. When the lock file exists, its associated data file is considered locked and other processes are not allowed to access it. If the lock file doesn't exist, a process that wishes to update the data file first creates a lock file and then updates the data file. When the file updating is completed, that process deletes the lock file.
More on this article at: http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_tip/03082002/

M

MAC address

Short for Media Access Control address, a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network. In IEEE 802 networks, the Data Link Control (DLC) layer of the OSI Reference Model is divided into two sublayers: the Logical Link Control (LLC) layer and the Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer interfaces directly with the network medium. Consequently, each different type of network medium requires a different MAC layer.

meritocracy  meree'tókrusee

1. A form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects.
2. The belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth.

marquee

<marquee scrolldelay="7" width="240" height="19">This is a scrolling marquee</marquee>
This is a scrolling marquee

A marquee can aslo have a background color (bgcolor="red") and I discovered that it can also be an image.

See my marquee lesson, under Scripts - CSS http://julean.net/Dhtml/marquee.html

Meta Tags

HTML tags that are not visible on a formatted page, but are used by search engines for indexing purposes. Search engines for the most part do not use meta tags any more. They read the title tag and the first sentence under the body tag.

metaphysics

The philosophical study of being and knowing.

mp3

MPEG1 Audio Layer 3. Audio file compression format with CD quality. A standard on the Internet.

MX record

An MX record or Mail exchange record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) specifying how Internet e-mail should be routed. MX records point to the servers to send an e-mail to, and which ones it should be sent to first, by priority.

When an e-mail message is sent through the Internet, the sending mail transfer agent makes a DNS query requesting the MX record for the recipient's domain name, which is the portion of the e-mail address following the "@". This query returns a list of host names of mail exchange servers accepting incoming mail for that domain, together with a preference number. The sending agent then attempts to establish an SMTP connection to one of these servers, starting with the one with the smallest preference number, delivering the message to the first server with which a connection can be made. If no MX records were present, a second request is made for the A record of the domain instead.

The MX mechanism provides the ability to run multiple mail servers for a single domain and the order in which they should be tried, increasing the likelihood that mail may be delivered and providing the ability to distribute the processing of incoming mail across multiple physical servers.

The MX mechanism does not grant the ability to provide mail service on alternative ports, nor does it provide the ability to distribute mail delivery across a set of equal-priority mail servers by assigning a weighting value to each one. As of 2004, some MTAs, most notably exim, now support the use of SRV records for publishing the IP addresses, ports, priority, and weights of mail servers.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record

MySQL

databases using Structured Query Language (SQL). (pronounceder "sequel" or "ess-cue-ell" - take your pick).

http://dev.mysql.com/ The world's most popular open source database.

N

nonags.com

The Original & Best. Genuine Freeware Site - Since 1995

Nonags is the safest place on the Internet to download free software from. Before we list anything here we check for viruses, trojans, spyware etc. And even if we find something clean, it still has to pass our special "cheesetest" which for obvious reasons we do not publish exact specs. NonagsPlus is even safer, downloads are from our server and files can't be switched after we list them. Sure all this means a lot of work for us, but it's what brings our visitors back for years... and that's how we like it.

null

Represents lack of value.

O

oeuvre euvr

The total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a distributed object system and protocol developed by Microsoft.

OLE allows an editor to "farm out" part of a document to another editor and then reimport it. For example, a desktop publishing system might send some text to a word processor or a picture to a bitmap editor using OLE. The main benefit of using OLE, next to reduced file size, is the ability to create a master file. References to data in this file can be made and the master file can then have changed data which will then take effect in the referenced document.

Its primary use is for managing compound documents, but it is also used for transferring data between different applications using drag and drop and clipboard operations. The concept of "embedding" is also central to much use of multimedia in Web pages, which tend to embed video, animation (include Flash animations), and music files within the HTML code.

Operators

+ += ++ - -= * / /= < <= > >= == === ! != !== && || [] ()

P

parseInt

JavaSript: A method that converts a string into a floating-point number.

Perl

Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym) is an interpreted procedural programming language.

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive collections of third-party modules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl A site for learning Perl http://learn.perl.org/

All my guestbooks, forms, seach engines and forum are Perl scripts.

phenomenology

The study of all possible appearances in human experience, during which considerations of objective reality and or of purely subjective response are temporarily left out of account.

PHP

PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated webpages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/

pilferage

The act of stealing small amounts or small articles.

pixel

A pixel (short for picture element, using the common abbreviation "pix" for "picture") is one of the many tiny dots that make up the representation of a picture in a computer's memory. Each such information element is not really a dot, nor a square, but an abstract sample. With care, pixels in an image can be reproduced at any size without the appearance of visible dots or squares; but in many contexts, they are reproduced as dots or squares.

png

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) PNG was created to both improve upon and replace the GIF format with an image file format that does not require a patent license to use. PNG is supported by the libpng reference library, a platform-independent library that contains C functions for handling PNG images. PNG files nearly always use the MIME media type image/png.

precognition

Knowledge of something in advance of it's occurrence. To know before.

Prerequisite

Something that is required in advance. Required as a prior condition or course of study.

Print this page

JavaSript: <a href='javascript:;' onClick='window.print();return false'>Print this page.</a>

Q

quantum jump

1. Physics. The transition of an atomic or molecular system from one discrete energy level to another with concomitant absorption or emission of radiation having energy equal to the difference between the two levels.
2. Any abrupt change or step, especially in knowledge or information.

quorum

1. The minimun number of officers and members of a committee or organzation, usually a majority, who must be present for the valid transaction of business.
2. A select group; an elect body.

R

renegade

One who rejects his religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another.

Robots

The Robots Exclusion Protocol is a method that allows Web site administrators to indicate to visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited by the robot.

The Robots META tag
The Robots META tag allows HTML authors to indicate to visiting robots if a document may be indexed, or used to harvest more links. No server administrator action is required. Note that currently only a few robots implement this.
In this simple example:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

More info can be found at: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html

RSS

Really Simple Syndication - RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news Web sites, weblogs and podcasting. Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata. RSS, in particular, delivers this information as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, web feeds allow a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.

Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." An aggregator is able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content. The content is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with email or IM. Unlike recipients of some "pushed" information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed.

Example (Two RSS feeds, 6 entries, "label", "datetime", and "snippet" fields enabled, sort by label)

Instructions can be found at: dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex18/gajaxrssdisplayer.htm

S

Scrolling Text

See marquee

SEM

Search Engine Marketing - Search engine marketing is any legal activity intended to bring traffic from a search portal to another Website. The term search engine marketing, therefore, covers a lot of ground. Wherever people search the Web, whatever they search for, and wherever the search results come from. If you're trying to reach out to target visitors, you're undertaking search engine marketing. The goal of SEM is to increase the levels of high-quality, targeted traffic to a Website.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization - The function of SEO is to improve a Website's position within the organic search results for specific search terms, and to increase the overall traffic the site garners from crawler-based search engines. This is accomplished through a combination of on-page content and off-page promotion (such as directory submissions). See my SEO page for more info and links.

Shock & Pause Theary

3/20/2003 as hered from TV about the war with Irak, holding back from going in with full force. A part ot the psychology involed.
Shock and Awe. Show-Shock-Awe

SMTP

An SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server is the server that is used for your out going mail

SMTP is a relatively simple, text-based protocol, where one or more recipients of a message are specified (and in most cases verified to exist) and then the message text is transferred. It is quite easy to test a SMTP server using the telnet program.

SMTP uses TCP port 25. To determine the SMTP server for a given domain name, the MX (Mail eXchange) DNS record is used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol
Notes on setting smtp for Outlook Express

SQL

(Structured Query Language) the language that allows us to join tables together in a relational database.

SSID

Short for service set identifier, a 32-character unique identifier attached to the header of packets sent over a WLAN that acts as a password when a mobile device tries to connect to the BSS. The SSID differentiates one WLAN from another, so all access points and all devices attempting to connect to a specific WLAN must use the same SSID. A device will not be permitted to join the BSS unless it can provide the unique SSID. Because an SSID can be sniffed in plain text from a packet it does not supply any security to the network. An SSID is also referred to as a network name because essentially it is a name that identifies a wireless network.

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other data transfers.

summation

The act or process of adding or totaling: addition. A concluding statement containing a summary or principal points.

SVG

This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML [XML10]. SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves), images and text. Graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously rendered objects. The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects and template objects.

SVG drawings can be interactive and dynamic. Animations can be defined and triggered either declaratively (i.e., by embedding SVG animation elements in SVG content) or via scripting.

Sophisticated applications of SVG are possible by use of a supplemental scripting language which accesses SVG Document Object Model (DOM), which provides complete access to all elements, attributes and properties. A rich set of event handlers such as onmouseover and onclick can be assigned to any SVG graphical object. Because of its compatibility and leveraging of other Web standards, features like scripting can be done on XHTML and SVG elements simultaneously within the same Web page.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/intro.html#AboutSVG

synchronicity

The relation that exists when things occur at the same time. The term synchronicity was coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. That's when I first heard of it reading one of Jungs books. Then Sting and the police came out with an album called Synchronicity, but of course Sting was also into Jung at that time.

Synchronicity suggests that mind and matter, along with past, present and future exist in a potentially meaningful continuum. As such, it compels us to rethink everyday assumptions about self and environment, causality and time.

By the 1950s, Jung had outlined three types of synchronicity:

1. The meaningful acausal coincidence of a psychological event and an external observable event, both taking place at or around the same time.

This first type of synchronicity could be illustrated as follows: You're driving home and begin to think of a friend whom you haven't seen in years. Upon entering the front door you find that the very same friend had just phoned and left a message on your answering service.

2. The meaningful acausal coincidence of a psychological event and an external observable event, the latter taking place outside the individual's range of sensory perception.

The second type of synchronicity is illustrated by the documented vision of the Swedish scientist and mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Jung says Swedenborg inwardly saw a devastating fire that raged approximately 100 miles away in Stockholm, representing what psi researchers now call remote viewing.

3. The meaningful acausal coincidence of an internal psychological event with an external observable event, the latter taking place in the future.

Also called precognition, one finds this type of synchronicity throughout the history of religions. In the Biblical tradition, for instance, Jesus accurately predicts Peter's finding a coin in a fish's mouth, as well as his own betrayal, death and resurrection (Matthew 17:27; 26:23; John 2:19).

One could argue, however, that Jesus was absolutely certain that this precognition would come about. He knows because he's God.

Jesus' predictions might be construed as 'synchronicities' by non-Christians but not by himself and his followers.

For Christian believers, Jesus' accurate predictions are sure evidence of God's plan of salvation. And this is a bit different, theologically speaking, from the notion of synchronicity as set forth by Jung.

T

tables

sample:

cell 1

cell 2

Code:

	
<TABLE CELLPADDING="4" BORDER="1" WIDTH="50%" bordercolor="#6699CC">
    <TR>
	 <TD>cell 1</TD>
	 <TD>cell 2</TD>
    </TR>
</TABLE>
    

You do a lot with tables as far as graphic design (Example 1). Tables can have background colors or images with no borders. I think that they were first created for the porpose of, hense it's name tables (Example 2), but then artists took it to the limit on graphics before the birth of CSS (Cascading StyleSheets)
Tables have rows <TR> and coloms <TD>. I don't know why they didn't name this tag <TC> but anyway it stands for table data colum.

terse  tuvr

Adjictive: terse [terser, tersest]
Brief and to the point; effectively cut short
"short and terse and easy to understand"

U

URL

Universal Resource Locator. Also referred as a link
Example:
http://www.julean.com
In a html page the code would look like:

	
	<A HREF="http://www.julean.net">My Web Site</A>
	

My Web Site would be the only visable words. If clicked It will take you to the address "http://www.julean.com". But you are allready there! right, so I can leave out the 'http://www.' as that is the address to the world wide web. Now you are in my file cabnet, meaning that I have many folders for example I have a history folder so my link address would be <A HREF="../history/myStory.html">My Story</A>. I have many links on this page that referse to a different place on this same page so my address would be <A HREF="#GlossV"> V </A>. You put a name for that place '#' <A NAME="GlossV"></A>

V

var

JavaSript: A variable: var lastItem = zoe;

VBScript

VBScript (short form of Visual Basic Script Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsoft's Windows Scripting Host. The language's syntax reflects its pedigree as a variation of Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language. It has gained significant support from Windows administrators seeking an automation tool more powerful than the batch language first developed in the late 1970s.

VBScript is interpreted by a script engine vbscript.dll, which can be invoked by ASP engine asp.dll in a web environment, wscript.exe in a Windows GUI environment, and cscript.exe in a command-line environment. When VBScript source code is contained in stand-alone files, they typically have the file extension .vbs.

When employed in Internet Explorer, VBScript is very similar in function to JavaScript - it processes code embedded in HTML. VBScript can be also used to create stand-alone HTML applications (file extension .hta) which require Internet Explorer 5 or later to run. Web developers may prefer to use JavaScript instead for better compatibility with alternative web browsers.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

vehementveeumunt

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion, passion, or conviction.

Virtual Hosting

Virtual hosting is a method that web servers use to host more than one domain name on the same computer and IP address.

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol services
VoIP requires a broadband Internet connection or a cable subscription, and generally comes in competitive calling plans. Cable companies are now the largest providers of VoIP services, with 52 percent of the market compared to 45 percent a year ago.

See article: Voice Over Internet Use Soaring

VML

(Vector Markup Language) is a text based vector graphics format proprietary to Internet Explorer. Jacco has created the following powerful VML editor to allow you to use your mouse to visually render basic VML text and shapes, with the corresponding VML codes then generated. This is more of a demonstration in two ways: 1) The VML technology, and 2) The power of DHTML, considering the program consists only of that!

Click here to try it out Got it at: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/vmleditor.htm

Finally, it wouldn't be right if we didn't mention another technology, SVG, while discussing VML. SVG (Standards Vector Graphics) is similar to VML in function, though has emerged as the standard for this field. A good developer's tutorial on SVG is SVG Basic Tutorial.

W

wav

Audio file
Code: <embed src="http://julean.net/music/Cymbal.wav" controller=TRUE AUTOPLAY=no loop=no height="16" width="28">

webmonkey

My very first web developers and teaching site where I learned a introduction to: html, css, JavaScript and an array of others. The titorels/lessons are funny/punny, witty and well said. Thanks guys/monks ~ I'll be swingin back in...

There site: http://webmonkey.com the web developer's resource

Whois

Directory to find the owner of a given domain name, or the contact person in case of problems. This directory is searchable through multiple web sites, or through dedicated software.

The most common one I know of is: whois.com
The best price on a domain name for the first year $3 and $10/yr after at yahoo.com

wit

The natural ability to perceive or know; understanding; intelligence; good sense.

X

x is a referance point starting to left of a document, window or this page moving horizontaily across would be +1 or what ever.

xhtml

The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same expressive possibilities as HTML, but a stricter syntax. Whereas HTML is an application of SGML, a very flexible markup language, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because they need to be well-formed (syntactically correct), XHTML documents allow for automated processing to be performed using a standard XML library-unlike HTML, which requires a relatively complex, lenient, and generally custom parser (though an SGML parser library could possibly be used). XHTML can be thought of as the intersection of HTML and XML in many respects, since it is a reformulation of HTML in XML. XHTML 1.0 became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26, 2000.

XMLHttpRequest

XMLHttpRequest, a JavaScript class with a very easy-to-use interface, sends and receives HTTP requests and responses to and from web servers. The XMLHttpRequest class is what makes true AJAX application development possible. The HTTP requests made with XMLHttpRequest work just as if the browser were making normal requests to load a page or submit a form, but without the user ever having to leave the currently loaded web page.

Microsoft first implemented XMLHttpRequest in Internet Explorer 5 for Windows as an ActiveX object. The Mozilla project provided a JavaScript-native version with a compatible API in the Mozilla browser, starting in version 1.0. (It's also available in Firefox, of course.) Apple has added XMLHttpRequest to Safari since version 1.2.

Y

y

y is a referance point starting at the top of a document, window or this page moving vertically down would be +1 or -1 to move up.

yinyang

The theory of "duality"

Z

zip

Zip files are "archives" used for storing and distributing files, and can contain one or more files. Usually the files "archived" in a Zip are compressed to save space. Zip files are often used to:

Distribute files on the Internet: Only one Zip file transfer operation (download) is required to obtain all related files, and file transfer is quicker because the archived files are compressed.
Send a group of related files to an associate: When you distribute the collection of files as an archive, you benefit from the file grouping and compression as well.
Save disk space: If you have large files that are important but seldom used, such as large data files, simply compress these files into an archive and then unzip (or "extract") them only when needed.

It is a great idea to compress your digital files when submitting them over the internet. Compressing files is similar to wrapping your priceless china in bubble wrap before shipping it overseas. Without the bubble wrap, your priceless china might end up shattered and worthless. The same can hold true with digital files. As your files bounce around the internet, they can get stripped of vital code that identifies them as valid TIFF's or EPS's or whatever the original file types. Without compressing your files, you run the risk of sending us incomplete or "corrupted" digital files.

How to compress your files
You will need WinZip (PC). For more info: http://www.winzip.com/aboutzip.htm