IaaS service provided by Microsoft Azure to host custom persistent virtual machines running Windows Server or Linux.

IIS Express is the developer version of full IIS that doesn't require Administrator rights to run. See also the [iis] tag.

ClojureScript is a dialect of Clojure that compiles to JavaScript.

The number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch on January 1st, 1970

To “URL encode” or “percent encode” text means to encode it for use in a URL. Some characters are not valid when used as-is in URLs, and so much be URL-encoded (percent-encoded) when appearing in URLs.

Questions about the meaning or usage of programming terms.

Pyramid is a Python-based web framework provided by the Pylons Project. Do not use the "pyramid" tag for displaying items in a pyramid shape.

Use this tag for questions related to Angular 2 Services, which are JavaScript functions responsible for performing a single task.

constexpr is a modifier introduced in C++11, which informs the compiler that the value of a function or variable is known or can be calculated at compile time. As such, it can be used as a constant in places where otherwise it couldn't be.

"bytecode" is a blanket term for opcodes that are consumed by a virtual machine. For example, the JVM runs bytecode stored in .class files and the CPython interpreter runs bytecode stored in .pyc files.

ClearCase is a closed-source, centralized revision control system (VCS) from IBM. Among its features: per-file versions & branches; "snapshot" copies of versioned data as well as dynamically-synched views of server contents; replication. Decentralized option: ClearCase Multi-Site, with Vobs (Version Object Base) replication Network access to versioned data: dynamic views. It is currently managed by IBM (after being run by Rational)