Saturday, March 31, 2018

March Queso

  1. TemplateRef and NgForOfContent are keywords for the templating stuff in Angular 4.
  2. 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.
  3. Flickr lets you host images/video.
  4. Shockwave allowed you to run Macromedia Director movies at the web.
  5. 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.
  6. Exago has tools for making SSRS reports and has extra charts and graphs, etc.
  7. 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.
  8. Koa is another server thingy for Node like Express or Hapi.
  9. ls in FreeBSD stands for "list segments"
  10. 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")
  11. Epic in an Agile sense is something bigger than a story that ideally should be broken up into stories.
  12. AltaVista is an old search engine.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. DBA stands for either "doing business as" or "database administrator" if a person is a DBA.
  16. _extend is a lodash thing
  17. RubyGems is package management stuff for the Ruby space.
  18. Duda is a rival for WordPress.
  19. Longhorn was a codename for Windows Vista.
  20. Weedmaps is a mobile app for finding pot (marijuana) in California.
  21. 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.
  22. A .bat file is a batch file. (.bat stands for batch)
  23. POC stands for proof of concept.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. bovada.lv (Latvia) is a site for sports betting
  27. In a list of to-dos the "low-hanging fruit" is the subset of the to-dos which are easiest.
  28. Sina Weibo is a microblogging (think Twitter) platform that is big in China.
  29. Watir, which is kinda like WatiN, is for the Ruby space.
  30. 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.
  31. OCI or (Object Computing, Inc.) has its hand in "Groovy on Rails" or Grails which is also really open source.
  32. JUG stands for Java User Group.
  33. copied from Wikipedia: "WebP is an image format employing both lossy and lossless compression."
  34. There is the concept of meta-reducers which are reducers for reducers in the ngrx/store paradigm.
  35. 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.
  36. Chelsea Manning gave state secrets to Julian Assange.
  37. Symantec AntiVirus is some antivirus software like Norton AntiVirus.
  38. WLAN means Wireless LAN (Local Area Network).
  39. 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.
  40. 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.

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