Saga of an Asus Eee User – Day 3

Yesterday I mentioned that I would begin building a new theme for the site using only the Asus Eee. You can follow the progress at http://dev.ilearneditonline.com. The first thing I had to do was install the Eclipse IDE.

sudo apt-get install eclipse

Once the installation was complete, I needed to install the Aptana plugin, it is a nice, free php editor. I followed the directions at http://update.aptana.com/update/3.2/ to complete the installation. After the installation, the Aptana start screen will give you the option to install the php plugin. After I had completed all of that, I was able to begin. As you can see from the screenshot below, it is possible to do development on the Eee but you don’t get much area to work with.

The final thing I had to do was to be able to upload my files to my server. For this I installed FileZilla, which is my favorite FTP client. It is very intuitive and it is free. You can do this by entering…

sudo apt-get install filezilla

At the time of this post, this does not download the newest version. You can opt to download and install the newest version. For my purposes, this version does everything I need it to do.

This consumed most of my time today. I will continue on with the new theme, so don’t forget to follow the progress.