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Term
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Definition |
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Authentication |
The process of verifying a user's
username and password credentials. |
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Authorization |
The process of determining what
resources an authenticated user has access
to. |
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Blue Ink Application
(BIA) |
See Blue Ink
Client. |
|
Blue Ink Client |
The Blue Ink application that
resides on a user's desktop that communicates with the
Blue Ink Server and that performs the tasks of code and
application generation, and that provides community
services. |
|
Blue Ink Net
(BIN) |
The server that the Blue Ink Client
connects to for numerous activities such as user
authentication, community services and payment
authorization. |
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Blue Ink Project
(BIP) |
The equivalent of a document (in
Microsoft Word) that for Blue Ink holds all information
relating to a users project and database. |
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Boolean |
Boolean Algebra is a branch of
mathematics developed by George Boole in the mid 19th
Century where the only values are yes and no (true and
false).
Boolean values are integral to computer
science. |
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C-CMS |
A Custom Content Management System
is |
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CMS
|
Content management refers to the
ability of a product to track content such as news
items, products, product features & benefits or
frequently asked questions and
answers. |
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Code Generation |
The process of generating
programming code. |
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Community
Services |
The message boards, support forums,
news, template sharing and other services provided by
the Blue Ink Net to Blue Ink
Clients. |
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Content Display Application
(CDA) |
The
CDA consists of a
dynamic web application that provides content display
and repurposing capabilities using a set of tables in
the user’s database. |
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Content Management Application
(CMA) |
The Blue Ink Content Management
Application is a standard Create, Read, Update, Delete
(CRUD) based web application for editing the content of
a BI-CMS that
provides a few extra features such as versioning and
staging. |
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Database |
A repository of information managed
by a Database Management System. |
|
Database Enabled
Applications |
An application whose primary
responsibility is the management of data in a
database. |
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Database Management System
(DBMS) |
A program such as Microsoft SQL
Server or Oracle that manages stores of information
(databases). |
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Database Schema |
The structure of a database for
example the tables, columns, indexes, and relationships
that make up a particular database. |
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eXtensible Hypertext Markup
Language (XHTML) |
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML in
XML. |
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eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) |
XML is a markup language for
structuring arbitrary data. It allows designers to
create their own customized tags, enabling the
definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation
of data between applications and between organizations.
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eXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformations (XSLT) |
XSLT is a specialized Programming
Language for transforming XML
documents. |
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Functionally
Complete |
An application that is able to
create, read, and update information in a database and
provides the ability for a user to navigate through the
data in a meaningful way. |
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Instant Application
Generation |
Generating a functionally complete
application with a bare minimum of input from the
user. |
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Just-In-Time Application Generation
(JTAG) |
The process of generating database
enabled applications instantly with a bare minimum of
input from the user and iteratively customizing and
regenerating the application through data model edits,
updates to pre-populated meta-data answers, and
modifications to run-time code based
templates. |
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Meta-Data |
Meta-Data is a term for information
that describes information. Blue Ink
Meta-Data is in two parts: information that describes a
database (database meta-data) and user entered
information (questions and answers) that describes the
information that describes a
database. |
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Meta-Data Answers |
Information about part of a
database schema.
See Meta-Data Questions. |
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Meta-Data
Questions |
The equivalent of a variable in a
programming language. A meta-data
question is a placeholder that can contain a value or
multiple values in the case of meta-data questions that
relate to tables, columns, incoming relationships, or
outgoing relationships. The values that
meta-data questions may contain are meta-data
answers. |
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Meta-Data Repository
(MDR) |
A cache of Blue Ink Meta-Data. See
Meta-Data. |
