[TriLUG] Developer environment for starting programmer

[Ken M]

I would also add sublime for an excellent text editor for development. 

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> On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:09 AM, C. Brantley West, III <cbwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Not exactly an IDE, but TextWrangler is free, has syntax highlighting, file
> navigation, and supports FTP/SFTP transfers.  I second the git suggestion.
> 
> -bw
> 
> C. Brantley West, III
> cbwest at gmail.com
> 
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Be forwarned, certain Bluefish versions can be pretty buggy. One Debian
>> Bluefish I had crashed every 20 seconds if you had changed any config
>> info. It got to the point where I saved after every sentence, and
>> still lost a lot of work. My current Manjaro Bluefish will not wordwrap.
>> 
>> Bluefish is a spectacular authoring environment on which my business
>> depends, but sometimes you need to go the extra mile to get it to work
>> as expected.
>> 
>> SteveT
>> 
>> Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
>> Troubleshooting Training  *  Human Performance
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:41:45 -0500
>> Ken M <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bluefish can work with remote files. However I will say it is good to
>>> know vim.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>>> 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!