Hello! The good news is that we’re almost there. I hope you’ve been able to follow my instructions thus far - believe me, the end result is more than worth it. In this part of the tutorial, we will be dealing with the installation of both PEAR and Symfony, as well as the initial [...]

As promised, this post will detail the steps required in order to setup the various daemons on your VM. First of all, let’s improve your shell experience by installing OpenSSH - all that Ctrl-Alt focus switching nonsense that you’ve so far been exposed to is no use to man nor beast; we need a flexible [...]

Now that we’ve dealt with some basic user and directory management, it is time to get cracking and fill our delicious VM with quality web development software. First of all, however, we need to setup networking in order to access the internet. Our VM has been configured to use bridged networking - I’m working on [...]

In my previous post, I talked about setting up your development environment using VMware Server and a pre-built FreeBSD 7.0 VM. Today, I’ll be showing you a few easy configuration tweaks as well as my own “best practice” with regards to directory layout and user management.
Performance Tweaks
If you have an AMD multi-core processor, you [...]

At any given time, I have about 3-4 web app ideas floating around in my cranium. I like to test theories, assemble rough prototypes and basically braindump onto some virtual “paper”. My development platform of choice is FreeBSD, which I have used consistently for the past 10 years. I’m command-line through and through, baby, so [...]