[TriLUG] Developer environment for starting programmer

[Ken M]

Bluefish can work with remote files. However I will say it is good to know vim.

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> On Dec 23, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Mainguy <jon at jmainguy.com> wrote:
> 
> If money is no object, dreamweaver was pretty fun to play with before I got
> into the command line.
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings all,
>> 
>> My son (15) has started his journey on the programming trail! He is very
>> interested in website development - especially CSS, PHP, HTML, and MySQL.
>> To “stoke the fire”, I have spun up a CentOS 6.5 virtual machine for him
>> with the typical LAMP stack.
>> 
>> One issue I face is his ability to work with the files remotely.  Since he
>> does not have command over the terminal yet, editing files by hand (vi,
>> etc) over an SSH session are a little out of his reach.  I am looking for a
>> good IDE he can use to edit his files remotely from his laptop.  Years ago,
>> I used MS Frontpage (yeah, I know, this is a Linux thread), but the tool
>> was easy to use and allowed me to get my hands wet with web site building.
>> 
>> He is running a Mac laptop, and so I am looking for a good tool that works
>> well on Mac.  Any pointers?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>