Web Technologys Explained

I just read the following article title "Advanced Web Design: A Primer" over at Sitepoint, its offers a pretty comprehensive breakdown and explanation of all the current web technologys including:

• Clients and Servers
• Client-side Technologies: JavaScript, VBScript
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) & Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
• Java
• Server-side Technologies
• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• Server-Side Scripting Languages
• Perl, PHP, ASP
• Cold Fusion, Server-Side Java (Servlets, JavaServer Pages, etc.)
• Database Servers, MySQL

Interestingly Flash, Silverlight, .NET and Ruby on Rails where left out of the list, but apart from that its a good overview and read. So if you need to brush up on the state of web development technologies out there I suggest reading it. If you want to learn even more about building web applications check out 37Signals online book.