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Most of these links are here because I have used the products or services they offer in the past. I wanted to share with others some of the sites that have helped me progress as a developer. Some of them are linked to my site to show the refferal but none of them are paid links. Most of the descriptions are taken form wikipedia.com. If your site is listed and you would like something changed or even removed please contact me.

Modwest - Complete Web Hosting - www.modwest.com
Modwest has always been the best and most reliable hosting company I've dealt with in all my years in the industry, and I was truly impressed on many occasions by the helpful and swift responses by the support staff to issues I encountered. I recommend Modwest to others every time I have the opportunity to do so.
PHP.net - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor - www.php.net
PHP, or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development, to produce dynamic web pages. It can be embedded into HTML and generally runs on a web server, which needs to be configured to process PHP code and create web page content from it.
MySQL - MySQL database - www.mysql.com
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS)which has more than 6 million installations. MySQL stands for "My Structured Query Language". The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
SitePoint - Empowering Web Developers Since 1997 - www.sitepoint.com
SitePoint Pty. Ltd is a Melbourne, Australia based publisher of books and websites. It is best known for its web developer books and online magazine.
World Wide Web Consortium - develops interoperable technologies - www.w3.org
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). The consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.
W3Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials - www.w3schools.com
W3Schools is a web developer's portal, with tutorials and references relating to web development subjects, including HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript. W3Schools.com is free of charge.
A List Apart - for people who make websites - www.alistapart.com
A List Apart (ALA) is a webzine for web designers written in Ruby on Rails. It covers various topics of interest and advocates the use of web standards in the design process. Regular articles are written by contributing authors who are not part of the editorial team.
SimpleBits - a place to post photos, code, ideas and other bits and pieces. - www.simplebits.com
SimpleBits, a web design studio (and weblog) by Dan Cederholm, he writes articles and commentary about the web, technology, and life. Cederholm is the author of two books on standards-based web design and CSS: Bulletproof Web Design and Web Standards Solutions.
Drew Curtis' FARK.com - It's not news. It's... FARK.com - www.fark.com
Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. The site receives approximately 2,000 story submissions per day, and about 50 of them are displayed on the site.
Digg - user driven news community - www.digg.com
Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.
DiggNation - weekly tech/web culture podcast - revision3.com/diggnation
Diggnation is Revision3's flagship video podcast produced weekly. It is hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, who had previously hosted TechTV's The Screen Savers together. Its main purpose is to discuss some of the top stories from Digg, the social bookmarking website developed by Rose and others. The format of the show usually involves Rose and Albrecht reviewing one or more brands of beer at the opening of the show, of which they will consume throughout the show, followed by them discussing various Digg stories from the previous week.