What I meant was that I was familiar with the syntax and use of MySQL & PDO.
PDO is an abstraction layer for PHP (an extension) & PHP employs drivers and plugins for accessing MySQL (as do python & perl). This basically means I'm referring to extensions/libraries of a scripting language. While you may take a particular item in a list literally, lists are usually abridged or abbreviated (though, in the case it was pointless because I had to type up this long response for you to understand what I meant). You're supposed to use context clues.
Also, I felt it was worth noting because some people use only MySQL or a different DBMS & thus a different syntax entirely. You'll also notice I put scripting languages there as well, which you can take literally and say that I'm wrong again in calling them "programming languages" because they're not compiled. I figure this is the bitcoin forum, not stack exchange; was such technicality really needed for a newbie forum post?

Sorry about the delay, had a lot of work to do today & just got some free time.

Thanks

Well I figure the best way to learn is to dive in

I'll have to get back to you on that. Some ideas I have probably just aren't practical, but as I read up on bitcoins more and more I'm sure I can narrow it down. I've already got enough code from other projects to begin a website, but I need to code up some mechanism for accepting and validating transactions quickly (I've already found a few possible ways, and there are even some free services that do it for you).
I'd really like to have some sort of gaming site. Not sure about allowing gambling between players for matches or maybe some ad-supported gaming with a bitcoin reward system. Then again there's probably already stuff like that. Once I get into IRC I'll put the network I'll be using in my sig or something (when I'm able to do so). Any language preference you have? I assume it's one of the ones I listed. I'll probably lean towards web development in the beginnings because I've been working more in those fields for the past few months.

Yep, popular and decent language. How long have you been using it?

Sounds good, perhaps we will collaborate.

Welp I made a post (about half a page) but the site just so happened to session_destroy() me right before I could post it, so everything was trashed  

Anyways, I'm new to Bitcoins but have been reading about them for a little while.

I'm a programmer (self-taught) and know the following languages (on a scale of 1-10, 10 being I can do them in my sleep, 1 being I'm just starting):

• AutoHotkey ( 8 )
• C ( 6 )
• C++ ( 7 )
• C# ( 6 )
• Java ( 3 )
• JavaScript ( 4 )
• MIPS ( 4 )
• Python ( 6 )
• PHP ( 9 )
• PDO & MySQL ( 9 )
• XHTML/CSS ( 7 )
• HTML5 ( 5 )

I'm looking for fellow programmers to work with & learn from. I'll probably be joining a few bitcoin IRC channels sometime soon, so feel free to message me in those if you see me.
That's all for now.