In object-oriented programming, a class that wraps around another class or data type to extend its functionality, provide additional features, or adapt it to a different interface or programming context, often used in design patterns like the decorator pattern and adapter pattern.

"The wrapper class implemented additional validation logic and error handling for the underlying data access layer."

In software development, a component, function, or interface that encapsulates or wraps around another component, library, or system to provide a simplified or extended interface, enhanced functionality, or compatibility with different environments or languages.

"The wrapper function abstracted the low-level API calls and provided a more user-friendly interface for interacting with the library."

The sequence of tasks, activities, and processes involved in completing a specific project, job, or business operation, often represented as a series of interconnected steps or stages that define how work is initiated, executed, monitored, controlled, and completed.

"The team streamlined the workflow by automating repetitive tasks and standardizing processes."

In project management and software development, tangible or intangible outputs, deliverables, or artifacts produced during the course of a project or development process, including documents, code, designs, plans, reports, and specifications.

"The project manager reviewed the team's work products to ensure they met the quality standards and requirements."

A visual blueprint or skeletal framework of a website, application, or user interface that represents the layout, structure, and functionality of the final product, often used in web design and software development to prototype and visualize user interfaces before implementation.

"The designer created a wireframe to outline the key components and interactions of the mobile app."

In computer programming, any character or sequence of characters that represent horizontal or vertical space, such as spaces, tabs, line breaks, or comments, often used to improve code readability, organization, and formatting.

"The developer used whitespace to indent code blocks and separate logical sections for better readability."

A authoritative report or guide published by a company, organization, or government agency to inform readers about a complex issue, technology, product, or policy, providing detailed analysis, explanations, and recommendations to help readers understand and address the subject matter.

"The company released a white paper outlining its vision for blockchain technology and its potential applications in various industries."

A computer security expert or ethical hacker who uses their skills and knowledge to identify security vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and risks in computer systems, networks, and applications, often employed by organizations to perform security assessments, penetration testing, and vulnerability research with the goal of improving security posture and defending against malicious attacks.

"White hat hackers helped uncover and fix security flaws in the company's web application before they could be exploited by attackers."

A control flow statement in programming that repeatedly executes a block of code as long as a specified condition is true, allowing for iteration and looping behavior, often used for tasks like traversing arrays, processing data, or implementing game loops.

"The while loop continued to prompt the user for input until a valid value was provided."

A colloquial term used by developers to describe the use of the wget command-line utility in Unix-like operating systems to automate repetitive tasks, download files from web servers, or perform web scraping and mirroring operations.

"He wrote a bash script with some wget magic to download the latest data files from the server."

A term used to describe internet services, applications, or architectures that are designed to handle large-scale or high-volume traffic, data, and user interactions, often characterized by horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and distributed architectures.

"The company built a webscale infrastructure to support millions of concurrent users and transactions."

User-defined HTTP callbacks which are triggered by specific events.

"Webhooks are used to automate workflows and integrate online services, notifying a server when an event occurs."

A mechanism for automatically triggering an action or event in one software application when a specific event occurs in another application, typically implemented as HTTP callbacks or POST requests to a predefined URL endpoint, enabling real-time communication and integration between systems.

"The application sent a webhook notification to the server whenever a new order was placed."

A software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

"Web services allow different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without time-consuming custom coding."

A computer system that hosts websites and delivers web pages to users over the internet.

"A web server processes incoming network requests over HTTP and several other related protocols."

The process of building, creating, and maintaining websites and web applications, typically involving web design, web content development, client-side scripting, server-side scripting, and network security configuration.

"She pursued a career in web development and gained expertise in frontend and backend technologies."

A set of web platform APIs that allow developers to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags for web pages and web apps.

"Web components make it possible to build complex UI structures that are easy to maintain and extend."

A software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web.

"When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the web browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then displays the page on the user's device."

A type system in programming languages where variables and expressions are not bound to a specific data type at compile time, allowing implicit type conversions and flexible interpretation of data, often leading to unexpected behavior and errors at runtime.

"Languages like JavaScript and Python exhibit weak typing, where variables can change types dynamically."

In computer programming, a reference to an object that does not prevent the object from being garbage collected, allowing it to be reclaimed by the memory management system if no other strong references exist, often used to avoid memory leaks and circular dependencies.

"The weak reference to the cache entry allowed it to be garbage collected when memory was needed elsewhere."

A humorous or derogatory term used in software development to describe attempts to resolve technical problems or issues through superstitious or irrational means, such as chanting, sacrificing, or making symbolic gestures, usually as a last resort when all other solutions fail.

"After hours of debugging, he resorted to waving a dead chicken in front of the monitor in a desperate attempt to fix the issue."

A traditional sequential software development methodology that divides the project lifecycle into distinct phases, such as requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance, with each phase dependent on the completion of the previous one, often criticized for its inflexibility and lack of adaptability to changing requirements.

"The team followed a waterfall approach to software development, which required completing each phase before moving on to the next."

A backup facility or data center that is partially equipped and prepared to take over operations in the event of a disaster or system failure, typically offering faster recovery times and lower costs compared to hot sites, but with less redundancy and availability.

"The company maintained a warm site with backup servers and data storage to ensure business continuity in case of emergencies."

A humorous acronym and anti-pattern in software development that refers to the practice of duplicating code or functionality instead of abstracting common patterns into reusable components or modules, often resulting in maintenance overhead, code inconsistency, and increased risk of bugs.

"The codebase suffered from WET syndrome, with redundant logic and duplicate code spread across multiple modules."

A term used in project management and software development to denote tasks, features, or deliverables that are currently being worked on or are in the process of completion but are not yet finished or ready for release.

"The team had several WIP features in development for the upcoming release."

A hierarchical decomposition of a project into smaller, more manageable tasks or work packages, organized in a tree-like structure that represents the deliverables, milestones, and activities required to complete the project.

"The project manager created a WBS to plan and organize the tasks for the software development project."

An open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database, used to create and manage websites, blogs, and online stores, known for its ease of use, extensibility, and large ecosystem of themes and plugins.

"The company's website was built using WordPress for its flexibility and scalability."

Wireshark is a powerful network protocol analyzer used for troubleshooting, analysis, and development of network protocols and applications. It captures and displays data packets transmitted over a network for detailed inspection and analysis.

"Network administrators rely on Wireshark to diagnose network issues by examining packet data, identifying anomalies, and pinpointing the source of problems within the network infrastructure."

A family of operating systems developed by Microsoft, known for its graphical user interface (GUI), multitasking capabilities, and extensive support for software applications, widely used in personal computers, servers, and embedded systems.

"Most desktop computers run the Windows operating system."

A Ruby gem that integrates Webpack with the Rails asset pipeline, allowing Ruby on Rails developers to use modern JavaScript tooling like Babel and ES6 modules in their applications, improving frontend development workflows and performance.

"The team added Webpacker to their Rails project to take advantage of modern JavaScript features and tools."

A popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications, known for its flexibility, performance optimizations, and support for bundling assets such as JavaScript, CSS, and images, often used in modern web development workflows.

"Webpack is commonly used to bundle and optimize frontend assets for web applications."

An evolution of WebVR that expands the scope to include augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) experiences in addition to virtual reality (VR), providing a unified framework for building immersive spatial computing experiences on the web.

"WebXR enables developers to create cross-platform AR, VR, and MR applications that run directly in web browsers."

A set of web technologies and APIs that enable virtual reality (VR) experiences in web browsers, allowing users to access immersive VR content and applications directly from the web without the need for additional plugins or software installations.

"WebVR allows users to explore virtual environments and interact with objects using VR headsets and controllers from within the web browser."

A communication protocol that provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection, allowing bidirectional communication between client and server in real-time web applications, often used for features like chat, notifications, and online gaming.

"WebSocket enables real-time updates in web applications without the overhead of traditional HTTP requests and responses."

A free, open-source project providing web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication via simple application programming interfaces.

"WebRTC enables video and audio communication to work inside web pages by allowing direct peer-to-peer communication."

A log file format commonly used in web servers to record detailed information about HTTP requests and server responses, including client IP addresses, request methods, response status codes, and user agents.

"The administrator analyzed the WELF logs to troubleshoot performance issues on the web server."

What You See Is What You Get, a user interface or editor that allows users to interact with content or documents in a way that closely resembles the final appearance or layout, enabling direct manipulation and visual feedback without the need for coding or markup languages.

"The WYSIWYG editor allowed users to format text, insert images, and design layouts visually without writing HTML or CSS code."

Windows Presentation Foundation, a graphical subsystem developed by Microsoft for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications, providing a rich set of controls, layout mechanisms, data binding, and styling features for building desktop applications with advanced visuals and interactivity.

"The developer used WPF to create a modern and visually appealing user interface for the desktop application."

Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that allows devices to connect to the internet or communicate with each other without the need for physical cables. It operates using radio waves to transmit data between devices within a local area network (LAN).

"I love chilling on the couch with my phone, browsing the internet using Wi-Fi instead of being tethered to a cable."

A programming language developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories in the late 1980s, known for its simplicity, expressiveness, and powerful string processing capabilities, often used for system administration and text processing tasks on Unix-like operating systems.

"The script was written in W to extract data from log files and generate reports."