Programming Languages

COBOL

COBOL is COmmon Business Oriented Language. It was created beginning in 1959, and has been a mainstay of business computing since the 1970s. While it is slowly being phased out in favor of more modern languages, the amount of stable and vital systems running in COBOL is still huge. COBOL was the dominant language of Mainframe Computers, but can now be run on smaller machines.

IBM - COBOL for Mainframes, Unix, etc.

MicroFocus - COBOL for Workstations.

ACUCorp - COBOL for Workstations and the Web.

COBUG - COBOL Users Groups.

FluffyCat - COBOL examples from www.FluffyCat.com.

CSS

CSS is Cascading Style Sheets. Style Sheets can be used to format your web pages beyond what you can do with just html. Style Sheets can be shared by multiple web pages, giving you a consistent and easily updatable look across an entire web site.

CSS Discuss - CSS Discussion
CSS Vault - CSS Examples
CSS Zen Garden - CSS Examples
Eric Meyer on CSS - Author Eric Meyer's Site
HTML Dog - HTML and CSS Tutorials
Position is Everything - CSS Bugs
W3 Schools - CSS Tutorials
WC3 Validator - A CSS Style Sheet Checker

Java

Java is the Object Oriented language developed by Sun Microsystems starting in the early 1990s.

Java is a prevalent language in Internet development, and is particularly well suited for larger more complex systems.

Java and Java-Script are not at all the same thing, and the confusion is constant annoyance to many Java programmers.

Official Java Site at Sun Microsystems

Java at FluffyCat.com

Java World

Java Ranch

comp.lang.java.programmer

Bruce Eckel, author of "Thinking in Java"

PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor or Personal Home Page Tools, is a open source server side scriping language. PHP can be used as a procedural language, an object-oriented language, or as a mix of the two.

PHP net - The Official PHP Source
PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository
Smarty - The Smarty Template Engine for PHP
Zend - PHP Development and Tools
comp.lang.php - PHP Newsgroup