Ironsocket. They provide VPN (support OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP), http/socks5 proxies all over the place and a DNS proxy - in the one package. Can't fault them.
Learning this stuff can get overwhelming pretty quickly if you try to do it all at once. Especially when the new tech you want to learn has dependencies on a million other things that you also discover need learning.
Start with a high level overview of what you need to learn to get the picture in your head, think 'shallow but wide'.
Then pick out the main concepts (eg MVC) and learn about that, so you have an idea of the reasons for the way things are being done how they are.
Next pick the specific framework - start with the basics for the -dependencies- for it; there's no point in working through a tutorial if you don't have the assumed knowledge. And then move on to progressing through learning the actual framework.
Don't forget Stackoverflow - you'll be able to find answers there. Any most of all, good luck!
They only know that data because you put it there in the first place.
If you don't want it available - dont put it on the Internet.... is this really such a hard concept to grasp?
(I'm not affiliated in any way with these guys, and I'm aware they just had an outage while updating the server code to defend against a DDOS attack, but they seem good! )
I have to agree. Visual Studio + Reshaper makes coding an absolute pleasure.
The best investment I made was actually getting a book and really learning how to use the VS IDE - time well spent.
Java is pretty grim, but it seems to be a popular choice for writing server side code.
Do you want to work server side? if not then maybe do something else; life is too short to do something you hate.