- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
The principle of organizing an application around blocks of code that can be run concurrently with an application’s main thread or other threads of execution. Asynchronous tasks are started by one thread but actually run on a different thread, taking advantage of additional processor resources to finish their work more quickly.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a set of operations performed on a group of files as part of building a product.
Industry:Software; Computer
Universal page list. A data structure used when communicating with the virtual memory system. UPLs can be used to change the behavior of pages with respect to caching, permissions, mapping, and so on.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, a group of handlers that can be viewed as a unit.
Industry:Software; Computer
A device driver that implements advanced power management tasks, such as determining device idleness and performing pre-shutdown tasks. Compare passive driver.
Industry:Software; Computer
A string that identifies an iPhone application or a set of iPhone applications from one vendor. They are similar to bundle identifiers. This is an example application ID: GFWOTNXFIY.com.mycompany.MyApp .
Industry:Software; Computer
A view that displays a detailed account of the progress of a build, including each step of the build process and the full output of the build system. It can take you directly to the source of any errors or warnings.
Industry:Software; Computer
A unit of measurement describing the size of glyphs in a font. There are 72.27 typographic points per inch, in contrast to 72 points per inch in the Mac OS.
Industry:Software; Computer
