The Brookings Institute, one of Washington’s most respected think tanks, has a very informative page on Obama’s and McCain’s tax policies(McCain’s policies aren’t of significance for obvious reasons). Obama is officially going to be our president today, so it’s about time I’ve fully analyzed his policies and adjust my behavior accordingly. To my surprise, his policies are reasonable and is potentially extremely beneficial, financially, to my family(and most American families). Although I have to reiterate that my criticism of Obama was mainly based on the misleading messages of the Obama campaign in addition to the biased role that media played.
The Obama Administration’s newly introduced policies are mostly innovative and prudent, I’ve listed below the ones I felt will make the greatest impact on everyday Americans.




Aptana, the Ideal IDE for Drupal and Web Development
An Introduction
I’ve tried many IDEs from easier to use IDEs like Adobe Dreamweaver to more advanced IDEs like Zend Studio. I’ve used Dreamweaver for more than 5 years, only coder view for its code coloring and FTP integration. Although the HTML from Dreamweaver’s designer view may be satisfactory for simple HTML pages the code it generates quickly becomes unmaintainable with quirks such as poorly nested tables, empty <p> tags along with the addition of PHP, Javascript and custom CSS for cross browser compatibility.
After gaining experience with Eclipse while developing Java applications I realized that Dreamweaver is woefully inadequate for development, missing simple but key features such as inline code checking(think grammar checking for code syntax), code highlighting(for quickly locating the start of a loop or to easy distinguish parenthesis in a complicated if condition) and version control integration(requirement for larger projects). Another problem is that Dreamweaver isn’t supported in Linux I would argue is the best operating system for development due to the fact that it better matches the production environment and that open source projects such as Apache, MySQL, Eclipse and Git are faster and more stable on Linux.
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