"What programming language should I be learning ..." Well working over a problem is best way to learn and understand. Instead of aiming to learning a programmin

"What programming language should I be learning ..." Well working over a problem is best way to learn and understand. Instead of aiming to learning a programming language or something more, try applying the knowledge you already have and come up with a small web-app that does something (anything! small or big). As you walk this path of learning by doing, you will learn a lot more than you might think you've learned after reading a book. Keep a tap on good tutorials and inspirational articles - try shmashingmagazine, nettuts, psdtuts, thinkvitamin... etc After done with say, PHP also try getting a taste of MVC, try CodeIgnitor... I notice no mention of MySQL or other databases mentioned by you.... do learn them too, after all you would be playing around with data :) presenting it in different ways.