- TemplateRef and NgForOfContent are keywords for the templating stuff in Angular 4.
- VAR is an old acronym for value-added reseller, a company who will both sell you computers and set up your LAN for you in lieu of just selling you computers alone. In both cases the selling of computers is a reselling as the computers would have originally been bought up from Dell or HP or Gateway or whatever.
- Flickr lets you host images/video.
- Shockwave allowed you to run Macromedia Director movies at the web.
- In a bait and switch tactic an employer tells a would-be-employee about how great the job is and when the employee shows up for work they learn within a month that they've been lied to.
- Exago has tools for making SSRS reports and has extra charts and graphs, etc.
- bmovies.se is a web site that has, yes, a catalog of old B movies, but, also, A list modern movies. Anything out in the theaters for a day has a ghetto bootlegging up on bmovies.se and anything that has been out for a month has a grade A pirated copy there.
- Koa is another server thingy for Node like Express or Hapi.
- ls in FreeBSD stands for "list segments"
- Leet is the art of replacing some letters with numbers that kinda look like the letters. l33t is leet for leet. (leet comes from "elite")
- Epic in an Agile sense is something bigger than a story that ideally should be broken up into stories.
- AltaVista is an old search engine.
- HTTP_PROVIDERS was something that showed up in the early Angular 2 code and was gone in later minor version releases of Angular 2 and certainly before Angular 4. If you Google this you can still find weird Stack Overflow references to it. It's deprecated.
- Project Jigsaw is an exercise to find standards for the Java SE 9 Platform and the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) with it. SE stands for Standard Edition here.
- DBA stands for either "doing business as" or "database administrator" if a person is a DBA.
- _extend is a lodash thing
- RubyGems is package management stuff for the Ruby space.
- Duda is a rival for WordPress.
- Longhorn was a codename for Windows Vista.
- Weedmaps is a mobile app for finding pot (marijuana) in California.
- The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a standard for handling data which includes a lot of privacy things like a right to be forgotten.
- A .bat file is a batch file. (.bat stands for batch)
- POC stands for proof of concept.
- Lightbox, as a feature, would suggest a place where photos are collected in an application. Maybe a place where you may next, next, next through your photos.
- LG G Flex is a self-healing phone! There is some sort of polymer that is being stretched for the screen and scratches will eventually flatten out to not scratches.
- bovada.lv (Latvia) is a site for sports betting
- In a list of to-dos the "low-hanging fruit" is the subset of the to-dos which are easiest.
- Sina Weibo is a microblogging (think Twitter) platform that is big in China.
- Watir, which is kinda like WatiN, is for the Ruby space.
- Wikipedia suggests that TWAIN is an API that bridges some gaps between software and "digital imaging devices" and I associate TWAIN with using a scanner at a FedEx Office.
- OCI or (Object Computing, Inc.) has its hand in "Groovy on Rails" or Grails which is also really open source.
- JUG stands for Java User Group.
- copied from Wikipedia: "WebP is an image format employing both lossy and lossless compression."
- There is the concept of meta-reducers which are reducers for reducers in the ngrx/store paradigm.
- There is a new view renderer coming in Angular 6 that you have to turn on application-wide with a flag. This is the big difference between 6 and 5. In 5 you got the beta of the CDK and Angular Materials which is the big difference from Angular 4.
- Chelsea Manning gave state secrets to Julian Assange.
- Symantec AntiVirus is some antivirus software like Norton AntiVirus.
- WLAN means Wireless LAN (Local Area Network).
- I'm hearing secondhand that a lot of Telerik controls are bug laden and even have bugs that have been left to sit for years without anyone circling back to them.
- A white label product is a product easily reskinnable that could be rolled out for different businesses with their branding and logos and color schemes.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
March Queso
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