In a not-so-small program, when you have not-so-few entities, in order to maintain code readability, common terms, and otherwise improve mutual understanding between team members, one have to define and maintain program vocabulary. How do you (or your company) deal with this task, what discipline do you have, what arrangements do you in...
I don't understand the meaning of semantic and the meaning of syntax! What are they? And what's the difference between things like "semantic website vs. normal website", "semantic social networking vs. normal social networking" etc... I don't get it! HELP! ...
I've seen the term "lexical variable" a few times, mostly in the context of closures. Paul Graham uses the term in his books on Lisp referring to variables defined using the let expression. I understand that lexical scoping is another name for static scoping. Is lexical variable just a variable that is visible in a program unit's refer...
I am getting ready to teach someone without any background in programming a language (PHP) I want to make sure I don't forget any important vocabulary this is what I have so far: Function/Method Variable Class String Integer Boolean Float Static Typing (Not needed for PHP but should be understood.) Dynamic Typing Are there any other...
Hi! for a program I am writing I would need a dictionary between Spanish and English words. I googled a while, but I could not find any database freely available. Does anybody know where or how to get such a database (preferably a simple CSV or XML file)? So far my best idea to create such a dictionary is to create a little program tha...
I am writing some documentation and I have a little vocabulary problem: http://www.somedomain.com/en/public/img/logo.gif is called an "absolute" url, right? ../../public/img/logo.gif is called a "relative" url, right? so how do you call this: /en/public/img/logo.gif ? Is it also considered an "absolute url", although without the prot...
I'm having a mental block for the words describing data flow in a communications protocol + google isn't helping, due to information glut. In the following scenarios A and B are communicating to each other. command or request: a packet of data going from A to B indicating that B should take some kind of action response: a packet of da...
I see this term on the internet a lot (in fact, typing it on google returns a lot of results). What is the exact definition of an "implementation detail"? ...
I found terminology "ad hoc" used here and there in programming field. What does it exactly mean in programming? wiki says "for this purpose" ...
If terms (admin OR user created) are duplicates, I don't see a way to delete them from within the Drupal browser interface. This becomes a problem during, say, adding products to an ecommerce site that breaks their products up into categories. The person adding the product sees multiple duplicate categories (which are terms within a Voc...
There's a computer science term for this that escapes my head, one of those words that ends with "-icity". It means something like a given action will always produce the same result, IE there won't be any hysteresis, or the action will not alter the functioning of the system... Ring a bell, anyone? Thanks. Apologies for the tagging, I...
What's the definition of a Shim? ...
I'm reading a lot about vocabulary trees when it comes to fast queries for similar images or texts in big databases. But I couldn't find any good (easy to unserstand) description on what such an vocabulary tree is and how to build one out of features. ...
What I want to be able to do is tell if a word in a sentence is a noun, adverb, adjetive, etc.. I looked into FreeLing, and a few other open source projects that I could find that are able to do this, just wondering if there is one that works with PHP natively, if not, do you have any suggestions on other projects like FreeLing that mig...
Question What programming terms have you coined that have taken off in your own circles (i.e. have heard others repeat it)? It might be within your own team, workplace or garnered greater popularity on the Internet. Directions Write your programming term, word or phrase in bold text followed by an explanation, citation and/or usage e...
What is indexing? What is full text? I know the answers to both questions, but I can't expose those answers in the exact way to an interviewer: indexing means something like index in book fulltext means for search string Can please give me very simple definition for each of these questions? ...
What is duck-typing and how is ColdFusion related? ...
When I need a name for a new class that extends behaviour of an existing class, I usually have hard time to come up with a name for it. For example, if I have a class MyClass, then the new class could be named something like MyClassAdapter, MyClassCalculator, MyClassDispatcher, MyClassParser,... This new name should of course represent...
Hi friends, I'm new at Drupal. a question; I create a hotels directory site. I created Taxonomy>Vocabulary for locations like London, Liverpool, etc... For example the url below lists the London localhost/drupal/taxonomy/term/1 how can change that url to something like localhost/drupal/hotels/london is it possible? appreciate adv...
Hi. Sorry about the vocabulary question, but I'm writing my master thesis and it's a pain to repeat "frameworks that support dynamic class creation" again and again. Is there a term for that? Some clarification: I mean that you can create a class at runtime, i.e., dynamically. For example, .NET supports this with the System.Reflection n...