ANSI SQL is the American National Standards Institute adopted Structured Query Language standard, developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1. It is the base for the different SQL dialects used by different DBMS vendors.

FolderBrowserDialog is a class in the System.Windows.Forms.CommonDialog namespace

Python built-in function that returns a string from an arbitrary object. Abbreviation for "representation".

#ziplib (SharpZipLib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform.

Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) is an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents. It was created by Dr. Richard S. Wallace, who created the A.L.I.C.E. Foundation, which supports AIML.

x86 real mode is where a CPU begins execution. It has a 20-bit memory address space and unlimited direct software access to all addressable memory, I/O addresses and peripheral hardware. It has no concept of virtual memory, paging or memory protection as in protected-mode and long-mode. Use this tag for programming questions related to real mode.

Mongrel is an open-source HTTP library and web server written in Ruby.

Activator is a .NET class that can create dynamically-typed object instances at runtime.

Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing that informally guarantees that, if no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all accesses to that item will return the last updated value.