badge
An image that displayed on a blog or personal profile on social media Web sites that identifies you. Most encourage readers and followers to download display their badge on your own site or blog and link back. Badges are considered a Web 2.0 trend and are also frequently used to display a “beta” message on your site or blog.
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A derogatory slang term, used mostly by hackers, to describe a program that doesn’t work or doesn’t work well. The term is also used to refer to the programmer who created the software.
- bait advertising
A merchant or online vendor will offer a sale or clearance price on an item in a newsletter or online advertisement to encourage potential customers to click through to their Web site. The low-priced item is often not available so the consumer is offered a similar, but more expensive item for purchase. Also called bait […]
- bake-off
(1) In technology it is a research comparison process where competing technologies are compared and the product or service is then chosen. Also called technology bake-off. (2) A gathering where software programmers test their creations against network protocols.
- banana code
Slang term used to describe an endless loop of code. This term is derived from the repetitive “an” characters in banana, meaning the code loops as it does not know where the “an” should stop.
- banding
The presence of extraneous lines in a printed page. Banding generally occurs when a color printer needs to pass the print head over a page multiple times to print each color. If the page isn’t exactly lined up for each pass, lines may appear. Such printers are called multi-pass printers. Because of the banding problem, […]