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If you don't like the built in editor, I've enjoyed the Easy Eclipse for Python distribution as well.

http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/python.html

A good solution is installing the EasyEclipse distribution which suits your need: http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html They have ready-to-run out-of-box distributions for Desktop Java development, for Mobile Java development, A LAMP distribution: development with PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby development with a web server and a database. They offer also an Easyeclipse distribution which includes everything you need for C/C++ develepmont.

No need to go through the horror of trying to add new plugins and fighting the depency horror. The distributions come with everything included: Choose distribution->download->run.
See: http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html

A good solution is installing the EasyEclipse distribution which suits your need: http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html They have ready-to-run out-of-box distributions for Desktop Java development, for Mobile Java development, A LAMP distribution: development with PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby development with a web server and a database. They offer also an Easyeclipse distribution which includes everything you need for C/C++ develepmont.

No need to go through the horror of trying to add new plugins and fighting the depency horror. The distributions come with everything included: Choose distribution->download->run.
See: http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html

If you don't want to waste time fooling around with the various plugins and don't mind being a bit behind in versions, EasyEclipse is a great package set. Choose which "distribution" you want based on the tasks you'll do with it, and you get a well-tested set of plugins that do the functions you need.

I've moved on from it since I've gotten more used to which tools I actually need, but it's awesome for those just starting with Eclipse.

Well, it really depends on your needs and how picky you are. The big problem with the Eclipse website is that it also contains a lot of the plugins and other stuff on the site, so it is somewhat cluttered. It would be nice to see a lot of the clutter go to a different site so one can focus on Eclipse, and the other can focus on the plugins and such.

The big thing with Eclipse is that it is a framework. You can make it as heavy or light as you want it, and people are encouraged to contribute "distributions" for others. Naturally, you can grab one of the items directly on the eclipse.org site and build your own IDE with all you want, or you can pick up a pre-configured copy with plugins already bundled. The nice thing is that no matter what distribution you use, the environment is consistent, so you don't need to worry about stuff changing around on you a whole lot.

As another poster said, EasyEclipse makes some nice bundles for focused areas that you can pick up. Heck, they even have a nice installer and everything. Once you get the base bundle, then you can always add on other tools as you need. If you don't like that, you can just look at the list of what each edition has and build it from scratch.

I don't know about the Delphi PHP IDE in the article, but if you are looking for a new develpoment enviroment, I would strongly recomend trying eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ with PHPeclipse http://www.phpeclipse.net/tiki-view_articles.php and XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. This compination is far more powerful than Dreamweaver, free (as in beer and speech), and has plugins available to support almost every every language I can think of. Which will help you in learning new languages with out having to learn a new IDE. Inaddition it can be made to run off a USB drive. Eclipse is java based so it is available for linux windows or osX.

The only advantage Dreamweaver may have is the WYSIWYG editor. There is an eclipse plugin for this (included in easy eclipse mentioned below) but I haven't used this much, since it's geneally faster and more reliable to edit the code to get the result I want. PHPeclipse includes an browser preview pane that, with the exception of directly editing the view in a WYSIWYG maner, is just as functional.

My two favorite features are the integration with XAMPP (an extrememly easy to setup and use local LAMP web server, which should work with Dreamweaver too) which allows for a Dreamweaver style design view for PHP code, and the Remote System Explorer (RSE) http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/tutorial/ plugin which allows you to connect and work on files on a remote webserver as if they were local, which is great for quick fixes and fixing typos.

To use eclipse, PHPeclipse, and XAMPP to create a portable development environment on a USB drive, check out http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_PHPEclipse:I nstallation:XAMPP_Example_Installation for eclipse and PHP eclipse installation into XAMPP and this thread http://portableapps.com/node/929 to make it all portable. I would also recomend checking out http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/ for easy installation of eclipse with many of the most useful plugins preinstalled for you.

http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/ruby -rails.html