I just told someone I'd VNC into their machine. It can be very embarrassing when someone asks you what that stands for and you don't know. Throwing around terms like PHP, SQL, ASP, ESX, XNA, XHTML, AJAX etc. you need to be careful not to let an acronym into your vocabulary without knowing its meaning. I would have asked what your favo...
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This is good: import string string.capwords("proper name") 'Proper Name' This is not so good: string.capwords("I.R.S") 'I.r.s' Is there no string method to do capwords so that it accomodates acronyms? ...
I am designing a new product for my team to develop at my corporate job. I feel the project will pave a new direction for my team. I am creating a presentation to sell the idea; however, I am having trouble naming the solution. Have you ever named a product before? What attributes helped you name your idea? Is a catchy acronym important?...
My search for the meaning of DCO was quite fruitless, so I decided to ask here. In my Java application, there are many classes like EmployeeDetailsDto, EmployeeDetailsDao, but recently I also came across EmployeeDetailsDco. Does anyone know what does the DCO stand for? ...
Definitionally they seem the same, yet they are deemed dissimilar enough by the W3C to have separate tag definitions. What is the semantic difference between <acronym> and <abbr> in terms of linguistics, the HTML spec and interpretation. ...
Are there any tools that would help with reading software requirement documents that contain a mix of domain specific and company specific acronyms and jargon. In particular I was looking for a tool that would allow me to view Acrobat or Microsoft Word documents and make it easier to understand acronyms and other jargon. This could be do...
I've seen pronunciation guides and all sorts of definitions of .NET as a framework, but no definition or explanation of the actual name of the framework. Wikipedia doesn't seem to know. This question didn't cover it. Anybody know? Is it pure marketing-generated nonsense, or does it mean something? ...
Hi, I'm trying to add a list of all acronyms I use at the end of my document. This is an example of what I'm trying: \begin{thebibliography}{mel} \bibitem[Sigurdur]{mel} Sigurdur Sigurdsson,\emph{'Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients: An Evaluation of Robustness of MP3 Encoded Music'}, Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Techn...
Hi! I am having a lot of trouble finding a string matching algorithm that fits my requirements. I have a very large database of strings in an unabbreviated form that need to be matched to an arbitrary abbreviation. A string that is an actual substring with no letters between its characters should also match, and with a higher score. E...
Can anyone share the origin and meaning of the jdbc connection pool named c3p0. Was it inspired from star wars?. ...
In connection with a SPI bus there is typically a number of GDO pins used for interrupting the master or the slave of the SPI connection. But what is GDO an acronym for? ...
Does anybody know for what the acronym ZIP stands for which was and is used in programs like PKZIP and GZIP? There is a compression algorithm named Lempel-Ziv-Welch-Algorithm (LZW) maybe the guy named Ziv invented together with other people ZIP? I cannot find anything about it, maybe its not an abbreviation but instead it just means "to...
Is there an easy way to create an acronym from a string in MATLAB? For example: 'Superior Temporal Gyrus' => 'STG' ...
Test Driven Development (TDD) and its benefits are well defined. The same can be said for practices like Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Each represents a software development technique that advocates greater discipline before you start coding. What, then, is the convenient acronym for the "unstructured" approach to development? I'v...
Hi I'm looking for a way that I can extract the first letter of each word from an input field and place it into a variable. Example: if the input field is "Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users" then the output for the variable should be something like "SOQTU" Any help is appreciated. Thanks ...