Tech people love abbreviations. Most of them don't even know how to resolve the abbreviations. Relax and smile knowingly - you found the most important explanations here:
| Abbreviation | Long term |
|---|---|
| 2FA | → 2-Factor Authentication |
| A11y | Numeronym for accessibility (A + 11 characters + y) |
| ACID | Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability → ACID |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ATAG | Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines → ATAG |
| BIENE | „Barrierefreies Internet eröffnet neue Einsichten“ (German accessibility award) |
| BITV | Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung (German directive similar to → WCAG) |
| BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
| CAS | Central Authentication Service → CAS |
| CC | → Creative Commons |
| CLI | → Command Line Interface |
| CMIS | Content Management Interoperability Services (open standard) |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| DAM | Digital Asset Management → Media Asset Management |
| ELTS | Extended Long Term Support |
| EoL | End of Life |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning → ERP |
| FLOSS/FOSS | Free(/Libre) and Open Source Software |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GmbH | German: Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung - a legal form similar to Inc. |
| GNU | → GNUProject |
| GPL | GNU General Public License |
| GUI | Graphical → User Interface |
| GWT | Google Web Toolkit |
| HTML 5 | Hypertext Markup Language, version 5 |
| i18n | Numeronym for internationalization (i + 18 characters + n) |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| JSP | Java Server Pages |
| JSR | Java Specification Request |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol → LDAP |
| Less | Less CSS → Stylesheet Language |
| LGPL | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| LTS | Long Term Support |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (here referring to a license type) |
| MPL | Mozilla Public License |
| MVC | → Model View Controller |
| MVP | → Minimum Viable Product |
| OOP | Object-Oriented Programming |
| OSS | Open Source Software |
| PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor – programming language |
| PHP-FIG | PHP Framework Interop Group → PHP-FIG |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework → Semantic Web |
| REST | Representational State Transfer → REST |
| ROI | Return on Investment |
| SAML | → Security Assertion Markup Language |
| SAP | → SAP |
| SEO | Search Engine Optimization |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL | Structured Query Language – database language |
| SSH | Secure Shell - cryptographic network protocol |
| TFA | → 2-Factor Authentication |
| UI | → User Interface |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium → W3C |
| WAI | Web Accessibility Initiative → WAI |
| WCAG | Web Content Asseccibility Guidelines |
| WYSIWYG | What you see is what you get → WYSIWYG |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XSL | Extensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT | XSL Transformation (for XML documents) |
| XSS | → Cross-Site Scripting |
Find explanations for most of these terms in our glossary.