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HTML: Master list of abbreviations, extension of Chris Coyier's starting point on CSS-Tricks
Source for starting point: http://css-tricks.com/abbrs-for-web-nerd-acronymns/
See comments at bottom of hyperlinked post for links to WordPress plugins and other good ideas
<abbr title="Customer Relationship Management">CRM</abbr>
<abbr title="Content Management System">CMS</abbr>
<abbr title="Structured Query Language">SQL</abbr>
<abbr title="International Organization for Standards">ISO</abbr>
<abbr title="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</abbr>
<abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr>
<abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr>
<abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>
<abbr title="JavaScript">JS</abbr>
<abbr title="European Computer Manufacturers Association Script">ECMAScript</abbr>
<abbr title="Internet Service Provider">ISP</abbr>
<abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr>
<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>
<abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr>
<abbr title="File Transfer Protocol">FTP</abbr>
<abbr title="Asynchronous JavaScript and XML">AJAX</abbr>
<abbr title="Domain Name System">DNS</abbr>
<abbr title="Document Object Model">DOM</abbr>
<abbr title="Object Oriented Programming">OOP</abbr>
<abbr title="Don't Repeat Yourself (programming principal)">DRY</abbr>
<abbr title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</abbr>
<abbr title="Ruby on Rails">RoR</abbr>
<abbr title="Keep it Simple, Stupid">KISS</abbr>
<abbr title="Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (common server configuration)">LAMP</abbr>
<abbr title="Cross Site Scripting">XSS</abbr>
<abbr title="Search Engine Optimization">SEO</abbr>
<abbr title="Joint Photographic Experts Group (file format)">JPG</abbr>
<abbr title="Graphics Interchange Format (file format)">GIF</abbr>
<abbr title="Portable Networks Graphics (file format)">PNG</abbr>
<abbr title="Photoshop Document (file format)">PSD</abbr>
<abbr title="Adobe Illustrator (file format)">AI</abbr>
<abbr title="Software as a Service">SaaS</abbr>
<abbr title="Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets">SASS</abbr>
<abbr title="Red Green Blue">RGB</abbr>
<abbr title="Hue Saturation Lightness">HSL</abbr>
<abbr title="User Interface">UI</abbr>
<abbr title="User Experience">UX</abbr>
<abbr title="JavaServer Pages">JSP</abbr>
<abbr title="Active Server Pages">ASP</abbr>
<abbr title="What You See Is What You Get">WYSIWYG</abbr>
<abbr title="Business Intelligence">BI</abbr>
<abbr title="Extract, Tranform, and Load">ETL</abbr>
<abbr title="Three-Letter Acronym">TLA</abbr>
<abbr title="Data Warehouse">DW</abbr>
<abbr title="Data Mart">DM</abbr>
<abbr title="Operational Data Store">ODS</abbr>
<abbr title="You aren't gonna need it">YAGNI</abbr>
<abbr title="SQL Server Analysis Services (Microsoft's OLAP Offering)">SSAS</abbr>
<abbr title="SQL Server Reporting Services (Microsoft's Reporting Engine)">SSRS</abbr>
<abbr title="Bill of Materials">BOM</abbr>
<abbr title="Material Resource Planning">MRP</abbr>
<abbr title="Enterprise Resource Planning">ERP</abbr>
<abbr title="Decision Support System">DSS</abbr>
<abbr title="Executive Information System">EIS</abbr>
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