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A date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system, and consists of year, month and day. Use for questions about creating, manipulating and storing date information. Use wi…
Authentication is the process of providing a proof of identity or verifying identity.
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Symfony refers to both a PHP framework for building web applications as well as a set of components on which the framework is built. This tag refers to the currently supported major versions 4.x, 5…
Go is an open-source programming language, with a syntax loosely derived from C. It's statically typed, with limited dynamic typing capabilities; it also features automatic memory management, built-in…
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OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a library for real time computer vision. When using this tag, please add a language specific tag (python, c++, ...), if relevant.
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T-SQL (Transact Structured Query Language) is the extension of SQL functionality supported by Sybase ASE and Microsoft SQL Server. Do not use this tag for MySQL, PostgreSql, Oracle(Pl/SQL) related que…
Directory-level configuration file used by Apache web servers. Use this tag if and only if .htaccess content is directly involved in the topic. We know many people are using .htaccess, but kindly ask …
[google-chrome] is for questions related to development with Google Chrome, a web browser that uses the Blink rendering engine. Warning! General support for the browser is off-topic: questions about …
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Matplotlib is a plotting library for Python which may be used interactively or embedded in stand-alone GUIs. Its compact "pyplot" interface is similar to the plotting functions of MATLAB®.
A for loop is a control structure used by many programming languages to iterate over a range. It is a way of repeating statements a number of times until the loop ends. Depending on the language this …
A DateTime object in many programming languages describes a date and a time of day. It can express either an instant in time or a position on a calendar, depending on the context in which it is used …
CodeIgniter is an Application Development Framework - a toolkit - for people who build websites using PHP. Created by EllisLab & fostered by BCIT it is now a project of the CodeIgniter Foundation. The…
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application level network protocol that is used for the transfer of content on the World Wide Web.
Perl is a procedural, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language, known for its native support of regular expressions and string parsing capabilities. Please use this tag for questions …
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Validation is used to check data to make sure it fits whatever required specifications are set for it. Typically Validation is used in checking input data, and in verifying data before storage.
An endpoint of a bi-directional inter-process communication flow. This often refers to a process flow over a network connection, but by no means is limited to such. Not to be confused with WebSocket (…
Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, offering satellite imagery, street maps, and Street View perspectives. Also supported are maps em…
An object is any entity that can be manipulated by commands in a programming language. An object can be a value, a variable, a function, or a complex data-structure. In object-oriented programming, an…
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UITableView is a class used for displaying and editing lists of information on iOS. A table view displays items in a single column. UITableView is a subclass of UIScrollView, which allows users to scr…
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) is a declarative XML-based language used for initializing structured values and objects in various frameworks. When a question is about the usage of XAML…
Object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm using "objects": an encapsulation consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions.
An "if" statement is a flow control structure in most programming languages that branches execution flow depending on a binary condition, generally evaluated at runtime. If statements are also commonl…
Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) is a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform mobile applications using web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
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GENERAL UBUNTU SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. Support questions may be asked at https://askubuntu.com/. Ubuntu is a free desktop and server operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. This tag is for programmi…
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An extensible IDE for desktop and the web. Visual Studio Code ≠ Visual Studio. Only add this tag for questions ABOUT Visual Studio Code- don't add it just because you happen to use it.
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A "web service" is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over the World Wide Web.
for questions involving code to send or receive email messages. Posting to ask why the emails you send are marked as spam is off-topic for Stack Overflow. Questions about configuration o…
A layout defines the visual structure for a user interface, such as the UI for an activity, fragment or app widget.
A framework for building Java web applications based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. It promotes flexible and decoupled code from the underlying view technologies.
Elasticsearch is a free and open, distributed, RESTful search engine based on Lucene.
GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use Git for version control. Use this tag for questions specific to problems with repositories hosted on GitHub, features s…
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KUBERNETES QUESTIONS MUST BE SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. Configuration and deployment is off-topic here. A good rule of thumb is, if it happens outside the pod, it's probably off-top…
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Microsoft Access, also known as Microsoft Office Access, is an application development and database development tool from Microsoft. It combines the Microsoft Jet/ACE Database Engine with a graphical …
Selenium WebDriver provides the WebDriver API for controlling browsers in different programming languages ("language bindings"). When using this tag, also add a tag for the programming language you ar…
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Parsing refers to breaking an artifact into its constituent elements and capturing the relationship between those elements. This tag isn't for questions about the self hosted Parse Platform (use the […
User Interface (UI) is the system through which people interact with a computer. This tag can be used for UI-related programming questions. Note that there's a separate Stack Exchange site for User In…
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