Glossary of Radio/Weblog/Tech Jargon, Terms
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- macro
- Non-Userland context:
2) In computers, a macro (for "large"; the opposite of "micro") is any programming or user interface that, when used, expands into something larger. [searchVB.com]
- Userland context:
- See Built-in Macros
- directive
- Non-Userland context:
(n.) a general instruction or order issued authoritatively. [Webster's]
- Userland context:
a line in a script, template or other document that is to be interpreted before it is rendered. [somewhere in radio.userland.com]
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See Built-In Directives page.
- pound-sign files or #files in Radio's local www directory structure, files beginning with # are never served.
- attributes
- Userland context: (#attributes, pound-sign attributes)
- UCMD (is this a file extension?) a binary code resource which receives local os events from scripts and sends replies. (like a dll perhaps?)
- verbs
- Non-Userland context: a command used almost universally. the verb ping is to use the ping program. [searchWindowsManageability.com]
- Userland context: functions built into Frontier (one example, there are others).
- All Frontier verbs
- have names
- accept parameters
- return a value unless an error occurs.
- a script can be turned into a verb (in this case a script is a means to an end, end=verb).
- object database
- Non-Userland context:
- Userland context: a data structure that holds scripts and data for Radio.
- .root file one of the two basic files (radio.root and radio.exe) that make up the Radio Userland application.
- topics (instead of categories) [see s l a m]
- outline
- table
- bootstrapping
- edifice
- render
- boilerplate
- treacle
- tacit
- LDAP
- dashboard
- quagmire
- responder
- the Radio responder
- the website framework responder
- Q: is a responder the same as a callback?
- wp (word processing)
- bookmark
- outline windows
- table windows
- outline windows
- member editing windows
- script-editing windows
- glossary (as in the Userland glossary.) (I think this is related to shortcuts)
Term Roll
 | .root |
 | agents |
 | special kinds of scripts |
 | always stored in system.agents table |
 | actually it is an instance of a running script |
 | runs in background |
 | attribute |
 | blogchalking |
 | blogroll |
 | callbacks |
 | cross-post |
 | directive |
 | Gnomedex |
 | glyph |
 | noun |
 | A symbol, such as a stylized figure or arrow on a public sign, that imparts information nonverbally. |
 | http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=glyph&r=67 |
 | meme |
 | NAT |
 | Network Address Translation |
 | object database |
 | resources |
 | it's a table that holds other objects, which are tables |
 | common tables |
 | scrathpad |
 | workspace |
 | suites |
 | collections of related scripts and data |
 | resources |
 | user.callbacks |
 | callbacks are scripts called in response to certain events |
 | user |
 | system |
 | system.agents |
 | resources |
 | system.extensions |
 | This is where glue scripts that call DLLs and UCMDs are usually stored. |
 | object types |
 | Boolean |
 | Character |
 | Number |
 | Float |
 | Date |
 | Direction |
 | String |
 | OIS |
 | Org for Internet Safety |
 | opml |
 | outline |
 | payload |
 | from a klog apart http://dijest.com/aka/2002/09/19.html#a2076 |
 | prefs.txt |
 | RCS |
 | renderers |
 | outline renderers |
 | generate HTML or other doc from an outline |
 | road map |
 | screed |
 | From Blogistan [someone wrote a long screed about the lame LA Times article on Weblogs] |
 | scripts |
 | See Also |
 | Blog Glossary |
 | http://www.samizdata.net/blog/glossary.html |
 | shortcut |
 | splat |
 | tool |
 | topics |
 | turnkey |
 | upstream |
 | verbs |
 | webservice |
 | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/04/12/execreport.html |
Links
Jargon File
Wrox Acronym Database
Jargon Scout