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Glossary is usually defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge. This Web Scripts Directory glossary provides a collection of documents that define many technical terms. These terms are arranged alphabetically, but you can quickly jump to a specific term by selecting its first letter from the index of the Web Scripts Directory glossary below.

ActionScript is Adobe Flash's own embedded scripting language. It has a JavaScript like structure and has developed into a flexible and powerful platform for Flash games and interactive multimedia.

ADO.NET stands for ActiveX Data Objects for .NET. It refers to the suite of data access technologies used to manipulate databases. ADO.NET is part of the .NET Framework.

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It's a development technique that mixes (X)HTML, JavaScript, CSS, DOM, XML and XSLT to create interactive Web applications.

Apache is one of the the world's most widely used Web servers. Originally developed in 1995 by a group that was to go on to become the The Apache Group, the Apache HTTP Server is Open Source Software, and considered by proponents to be fast, scalable and secure.

Active Server Pages - Microsoft's IIS based server side scripting architecture. ASP is a gateway for scripting languages such as VBScript and JScript.

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. CGI allows HTML pages to interact with programming applications.

A database is a collection of data that is organized so that its contents can easily be accessed, managed and updated. The most prevalent type of database is the relational database, a tabular database in which data is defined so that it can be reorganized and accessed in a number of different ways.

A directory is, in general, an approach to organizing information, the most familiar example being a telephone directory. On the World Wide Web, a directory is a site containing links to other sites which are organized into various categories & subcategories. Examples of directories are Yahoo & Open Directory.

Glossary is usually defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge.

An multi-platform, object-oriented programming language from Sun Microsystems. The Java language syntax is somewhat similar to C. Java can be used to program applications and applets. Don't confuse Java with JavaScript.

A scripting language for Web pages. Scripts written with JavaScript can be embedded into HTML documents. With JavaScript, you have many possibilities for enhancing your Web page with interesting elements.

Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, is a programming language often used for creating CGI programs. It is one of the most popular web programming languages mostly due to its powerful text-manipulation facilities. A huge number of Perl scripts are available for download.

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a cross platform, server side programming language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP is basically used for developing web based software applications.

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity, allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration.

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.

A scripting language differentiates itself from other typical languages in that they are usually simpler to learn and use as well as not needing to be compiled. The language is interpreted at run-time so you can execuate instructions immediately.

Search engines help users find web pages on a given subject. The search engines maintain databases of web sites and use programs (often referred to as "spiders" or "robots") to collect information, which is then indexed by the search engine.

A web directory is a listing of websites organized in a hierarchy or interconnected list of categories.

This term refers to the person in charge of administrating a World Wide Web site. The Webmaster might be responsible for making sure that the Web server hardware and software is running properly, designing the Web site, creating and updating Web pages, replying to user feedback, monitoring traffic through the site.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language - A reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0. XHTML is a new language for building web pages that has recently been proposed as a W3C Recommendation.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C initiative that allows information and services to be encoded with meaningful structure and semantics that computers and humans can understand. XML is great for information exchange, and can easily be extended to include user-specified and industry-specified tags.