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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

 

• tool

 

• script
  • Non-Userland context:

    1) In computer programming, a script is a program or sequence of instructions that is interpreted or carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor (as a compiler program is). [searchVB.com]

  • Userland context: a special kind of outline. (circular). 
    • desktop Usertalk scripts
    • import/export Usertalk scripts
    • "any script treated as a verb can be called from other places in the object database."
    • *.ftds files
    • when you run a script and there is no call to the script at the bottom of the script, Radio will display an error msg.

 

• 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]

  • See Built-In Directives page.

 

• #prefs.txt

 

• 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).

 

• built-in verbs

 

• 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.

 

• .im file

 

• #flRender directive

  one type of directive that can be specified in a #prefs.txt file as yes/no.

 

• topics (instead of categories) [see s l a m]

 

• blogroll

  a collection of links on the home page of a weblog that somehow relate to that weblog. [Jake Savin]

• 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?

• callbacks
  • Resources:
    • Callbacks for Post and Publish by folks at Userland
    • Weblog post form callbacks by folks at Userland (Q. Did they mean to say Weblog post f-r-o-m callbacks?)
    • Geeky Feature: Description Filter Callbacks for RSS by folks at Userland

 

• bundles

 

• 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)
  • usage "When Radio sees an item in double-quotes that's in the glossary, it substitutes the stuff in quotes for what's in the glossary." from the Automatic Glossary Substitution section of Userland's Text-editing cheat sheet.

 

 

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Links

Jargon File

Wrox Acronym Database

Jargon Scout

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