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Glossary
Common terms that you may encounter on this site.
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Content Construction Kit - a Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. that allows you to create new content types

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Cascading Style Sheet - a hierarchical means of specifying how to format HTMLHyperText Markup Language - the coding standard for a web page. elements on the page

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A collection of data related to an application.

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An application set that is designed to produce web sites and edit code. For some uses, it constitutes an IDEInteractive Deveopment Environment - a collection of tools or applications that allow a developer to produce, test, and document code., in others it is inadequate for that.

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Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world.

An open-source content management system that is used on this siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. and is taking over the world.

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An Open Source application that provides the framework for an IDEInteractive Deveopment Environment - a collection of tools or applications that allow a developer to produce, test, and document code..

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Frequently Asked Question - most web sites get questions; the owner may collect the frequent ones to be easily asnwered.

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HyperText Markup Language - the coding standard for a web page.

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Interactive Deveopment Environment - a collection of tools or applications that allow a developer to produce, test, and document code.

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The technique which points to another page, anywhere on the Internet, from the current page.

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A UnixA (largely) open-source computer operating system. It is the basis for other OS's such as Linux and even provided some inspiration for Windows. variant that has become very popular. It has itself spawned numerous variants, although not all of those enjoy open-source status.

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An add-on, or extension, to Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. to provide additional functionality; written in PHPRecursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" - is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML..

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An implementation of a relational databaseA type of database that more closely resembles a flat file, yet is accessible by a full-featured query specification. using the standardized SQLStructured Query Language - a language for accessing a database..

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The beautiful, intelligent woman who runs this siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site..

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Recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" - is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTMLHyperText Markup Language - the coding standard for a web page..

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Project Management Professional is a certification issued by the Project Management Institute and is sort of like a CPA for project managers. The certification requires a certain amount of base and continuing education, experience, and passing a monstrous test. Some employers require it for project managers.

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A type of databaseA collection of data related to an application. that more closely resembles a flat file, yet is accessible by a full-featured query specification.

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A logically grouped set of content - also web siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site..

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A Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. contributed moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. by Nancy WichmannThe beautiful, intelligent woman who runs this site. for gathering information about the installation.

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A Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. contributed moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. by Nancy WichmannThe beautiful, intelligent woman who runs this site. for hidden design or how-to notes.

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Unsolicited email or web siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites.

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Structured Query Language - a language for accessing a databaseA collection of data related to an application..

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For web sites, this refers to the "look and feel" of the siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site.. It is also used to describe the code to produce that look.

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A (largely) open-source computer operating system. It is the basis for other OS's such as LinuxA Unix variant that has become very popular. It has itself spawned numerous variants, although not all of those enjoy open-source status. and even provided some inspiration for Windows.

Changelogs
These are Change log "blogs" for my modules. The module entries (terms) themselves contain links to the appropriate project page, or page on my site, and Drupal.org "Contributed Modules" handbook pages.
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This provides a table view of who attended which meetings.
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This moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. is an add-on to the FAQFrequently Asked Question - most web sites get questions; the owner may collect the frequent ones to be easily asnwered. moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. that allows users with the 'ask question' permission to create a question which will be queued for an 'expert' to answer.
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The get_content_type moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. fills an oversight by the D5 developers. When they moved the part of CCKContent Construction Kit - a Drupal module that allows you to create new content types (sometimes called CCKContent Construction Kit - a Drupal module that allows you to create new content types-Lite) into core for creating new content types, they forgot the analog to taxonomy/term/xxx, that is node/type/xxx. This simple moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. provides that function.
This moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. has not been contributed due to disparaging comments from more advanced Drupallers.
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The glossary moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. scans content for glossary terms (including synonyms). The glossary indicator is inserted after every found term, or the term itself is turned into an indicator, depending on the siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. settings. By hovering over the indicator, users will see the definition of that term displayed as a "tool tip." Clicking the indicator leads the user to that term presented within the whole glossary or directly to the detailed description of the term, if available.
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Gotcha intercepts the Contact form submission and checks an inserted hidden field to catch spambots. If something is there, Gotcha simply returns to the front page and ignores the message. The attempt is logged and saved in the databaseA collection of data related to an application.. If the field is empty, then the message is scanned by the Spam module, which has very good filters for catching spamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites.. If everything looks okay, the message is passed on through to the Contact moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. for normal processing.
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Helpers is a collection of functions to help developers work smarter and faster.
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Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. 6 changed the length of the title field for nodes to 255. This moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. brings that change to version 5.x.
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This is a simple moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. that allows for various lists, such as "taxonomy/term," to be filtered by content type.
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Are you creating a country portal or a siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. dedicated to a specific country?
The Register Country moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. is designed to intercept new registrations and check if the IP address being used is registered to a country that the siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. administrator has chosen. In this way, you may limit sign ups to your siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. to specific countries.
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To simplify it a bit, the Site DocumentationA Drupal contributed module by Nancy Wichmann for gathering information about the installation. moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. picks up information from various places within the Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. environment. Some of the information comes from internal arrays, some is derived from system calls, and some comes directly from the databaseA collection of data related to an application. tables. This information is pulled into a report that can be used to document the siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site.. In addition, it will detect some problems that may exist in your installation, and optionally correct them.
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SiteNotes introduces a new content type, called, coincidentally, "sitenotes." It also creates a menu item in the Admin » SiteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. building menu, where it's available only to privileged users; it's even protected by Access Control. So now all those little Post-Its™ and other scraps of paper can go right into your databaseA collection of data related to an application. where you can find them again. Create "How To" notes for your users, themeFor web sites, this refers to the "look and feel" of the site. It is also used to describe the code to produce that look. changes, CSSCascading Style Sheet - a hierarchical means of specifying how to format HTML elements on the page modifications, special code notes, and keep them safe AND available.
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This add-on moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. adds another tab to the SpamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites. administration page that allows SpamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites. moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. administrators to examine and modify the tokens used by the Bayesian filters to determine the probability of content being spamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites..
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The SpamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites._Tune moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. allows SpamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites. moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. administrators to examine and modify system variables that are normally just defaulted in the SpamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites. moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP.. These variables are added to the 'Advanced' tab in the SpamUnsolicited email or web site postings that are undesirable, usually containing links to other sites. settings. This moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. will probably never be contributed as it can be dangerous to alter the parameters exposed here.
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Think of this as a 'build your own category view' page. A single page with each term organized nicely by vocabulary. The user selects the terms which she or he wants to see, and then this moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. constructs the right URL (e.g. taxonomy/view/and/3,4,5) and then displays matching nodes to the user.
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http://drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world..org/project/taxonomy_delegate -->
This moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. allows an administrator with "administer taxonomy" permission to delegate the administration of a vocabulary to a non-admin role.
This moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. has not yet been contributed. We are looking for beta-testers.
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Allow an administrator to associate image with taxonomy terms or vocabularies for display with the terms.
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