More steps in progress

I find that while I am desirous of a position on the crew here at SoldierX, I lack some of the skills to really be of help. So I am taking off and trying to learn a few programming languages and learning the ins and outs of some protocols. I think I know where I need to look but if anyone has any suggestions, resources, hints, or tips please do leave comments. I am currently setting up a portable IDE and environment for PHP, Python, and Perl so that I am able to take my work with me. I am using XAMPP portable as my PHP testing environment. I am using Eclipse PHP IDE for writing and testing PHP projects, I am using strawberry Perl for my perl IDE and testing shell, and I am using Portable Python for my Python IDE and testing shell. any other tools and resources would be appreciated.

On to study I guess......