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In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible...

In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional...

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network. A WAP browser is a web browser for...

A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player, either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general...

Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag, as it...

Sawzall is a procedural domain-specific programming language, used by Google to process large numbers of individual log records. Sawzall was first described...

Oracle Developer Studio, formerly named Oracle Solaris Studio, Sun Studio, Sun WorkShop, Forte Developer, and SunPro Compilers, is the Oracle Corporation's...

Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of...

In computers, lag is delay (latency) between the action of the user (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which has to be sent back...

In computing, a button (sometimes known as a command button or push button) is a graphical control element that provides the user a simple way to trigger...

AOLserver is AOL's open source web server. AOLserver is multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, and used for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver is distributed...

A drop-down list (abbreviated drop-down, or DDL; also known as a drop-down menu, drop menu, pull-down list, picklist) is a graphical control element, similar...

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit consortium that establishes and maintains standardized benchmarks and performance...

For a cryptographic hash function (a mathematical algorithm), a MASH-1 (Modular Arithmetic Secure Hash) is a hash function based on modular arithmetic...

Reentrancy is a programming concept where a function or subroutine can be interrupted and then resumed before it finishes executing. This means that the...

Hold-And-Modify, usually abbreviated as HAM, is a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer. It uses a highly unusual technique to express the color...

HeeksCAD is a free software computer-aided design program written in C++. It uses Open CASCADE Technology internally for the modelling and wxWidgets as...

dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS). dig is useful for network troubleshooting and for educational...

A clipboard manager is a computer program that adds functionality to an operating system's clipboard. Many clipboards provide only one buffer for the "copy...

Active Oberon is a general purpose programming language developed during 1996-1998 by the group around Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht at the Swiss Federal...