I hate not knowing what things stand for! Someone idly asks you “What does FTP stand for?” And you sit there like a wide eyed idiot. They’re abbreviations we abuse everyday so it looks bad when you really have no idea what you’re saying.
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
URL: Universal Resource Listing
HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (the second PHP is said to stand for Personal Home Page)
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (P may also stand for Perl or Python)
MySQL: My Structured Query Language
PERL: Practical Extraction and Report Language
Linux: Linus’ Unix
Unix: UNiplexed Information and Computing System.
CMS: Content Management System
CDN: Content Delivery System
RoR: Ruby on Rails
OOP: object-oriented programming
SVN: Subversion
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
AJAX: Asynchronous, JavaScript, And XML
GD Library: Originally stood for “Gif Draw” but is now considered “Graphics Draw”
CHMOD: Change Mode
QEP: Query Execution Plan
API: Aplication Program Interface
XML: Extensible Markup Language
XXS: Cross-Site Scripting
CSV: Comma Separated Values
cURL: Client URLs
MCE: Moxiecode Content Editor