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Useful Resources relating to web development and web design

We at Century Media hope that you the visitor find some or all of the following web development resources of some use in your travels on the web.

PHP - PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated web pages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.

MySQL - The world's most popular open source database. MySQL is a key part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python), a fast growing open source enterprise software stack. More and more companies are using LAMP as an alternative to expensive proprietary software stacks because of its lower cost and freedom from lock-in.

The Apache Software Foundation - The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.

Gentoo Linux - Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Bluefish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.