(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best mysql guides

I read this when I was studying for my exams last year and found it quite good.

There's a book by david powers called PHP solutions: Dynamic web design made easy. Its awesome. It took me an entire summer to motivate myself through it, but he walks you through building a website from square one. It focuses on PHP, but in the process you'll pick up HTML and CSS, which are the building blocks of web design. He also walks you through database setup, building login screens, authenticating users, etc. Can't recommend this book enough. Also, I learned from the ebook, which was useful in copying and pasting code he wrote into your own scripts when you're too lazy to re-type them.

Forget Perl. Python is a good choice.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515829

http://www.amazon.com/Python-System-Administration-Rytis-Sileika/dp/1430226056/

I am currently in the process of learning Java and I think this one is a must: http://www.amazon.com/Java-Complete-Reference-Ninth-Edition-ebook/dp/B00HSO0X6C Really well explained with examples. Its not cheap but you know where to find it "cheaper" if you can't afford it.

If you can get your hands on http://www.amazon.com/dp/059600639X (or its first edition, http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565926099 ), it provides quite a number of examples where you could use Perl in a Windows environment.

I haven't read it, but there's also this fairly recent book from 2009: Automating System Administration with Perl

PHP/Notepad++/SQF Scripting for Dummies

http://www.amazon.com/MySQL-JavaScript-HTML5-All--Dummies/dp/111821370X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407814115&sr=8-1&keywords=php+for+dummies

Sometimes what one needs is a book

Ah, darksim, we meet again!

As far as a general guide, there's the usual O'Reilly books - Postfix, Spam Assassin, Sendmail if you're a poor SOB who has to administer a Sendmail box, Zimbra (sigh), etc.

If you're using AWS SES as a relay, they have tons of good documentation on their website.

Honestly though, 40% of what I learned was from co-workers who learned it the hard way, 58% was from googling things and maybe 2% was from a reference manual or two we had sitting around. Just implementing email infrastructure does amazing things for your knowledge of it, and figuring out what the hell is going on when your clients call you highly upset because the entire IP block they're in has been blacklisted.