Internet technology books

Building Scalable Web Sites

A book detailing how to build and maintain "scalable" web sites. This is a must book if you want to get great tips about building your site, maintaining it, and making sure it is scalable. It also talks about security, performance, optimization, i18n, benchmarking and more issues. It mostly deals with the LAMP architecture, but the ideas can also be helpful for other platforms.

Highly recommended!

Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional

Written for the budding web developer searching for a powerful, low-cost solution for building flexible, dynamic web sites. Essentially three books in one: provides thorough introductions to the PHP language and the MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites. Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world tasks such as creating an auto-login feature, sending HTML-formatted e-mail, testing password guessability, and uploading files via a web interface. Updated for MySQL 5, includes new chapter

HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition

A good book for web beginners, wanting to learn how to write simple web pages (Or as a basis for further reading into dynamic pages).

Ajax in Action

AJAX book for web deveopers. 
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Professional Ajax

Written for experienced web developers, Professional Ajax shows how to combine tried-and-true CSS, XML, and JavaScript technologies into Ajax. This provides web developers with the ability to create more sophisticated and responsive user interfaces and break free from the "click-and-wait" standard that has dominated the web since its introduction.

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers