wsimport is a command-line tool to generate client and service artifacts from WSDL. The utility is part of the JAX-WS standard and began shipping with the Java platform starting with version 6.

a Ruby gem that makes it possible to define cron tasks in Ruby

Static sites are websites that have no dynamic components, e.g. databases or server-side scripting languages. A number of static site generators exist in a variety of languages, such as Jekyll, Wintersmith, and Pelican.

libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data.

flatMap is a Java and Scala function that works by applying a function that returns a sequence for each element in the list, and flattening the results into the original list.

A UIRefreshControl object provides a standard control that can be used to initiate the refreshing of a table view’s contents. You link a refresh control to a table through an associated table view controller object. The table view controller handles the work of adding the control to the table’s visual appearance and managing the display of that control in response to appropriate user gestures.

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is a minor platform release to the Android OS from Google that debuted on the Nexus S.

paas is short for Platform-as-a-service, a category of cloud-centric services.

Add content on to the beginning of something (usually a file).

memset is a C standard library function that sets the first N bytes of the block of memory to the specified value (interpreted as an unsigned char)

Slick is a modern database query and access library for Scala by Typesafe.