First, let’s grab the PEAR installer:
curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear > go-pear.php
sudo php -q go-pear.php
Press enter to use default until you get to the file layout and edit the first to be /usr/local
1. Installation prefix ($prefix) : /usr/local
2. Temporary files directory : $prefix/temp
3. Binaries directory : $prefix/bin
4. PHP code directory ($php_dir) : $prefix/PEAR
5. Documentation base directory : $php_dir/docs
6. Data base directory : $php_dir/data
7. Tests base directory : $php_dir/tests
Press Enter to continue and Y to install
PEAR_Frontend_Web-beta, PEAR_Frontend_Gtk2, and MDB2
Hit Y to let PEAR update your include path
That’s it! You should be able to type in pear version to see PEAR installed.
Tagged PEAR, PHP
First you need to install any dependencies:
yum install gettext-devel expat-devel curl-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel
Then get the source code for Git
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.2.2.tar.gz
Extract the tarball
tar -zvxf git-1.7.2.2.tar.gz
Install to usr/local
cd git-1.7.2.2.tar.gz
make prefix=/usr/local all
make prefix=/usr/local install
Test it out
cd ~/
git --version
Tagged git, Web Development
There are too few tools and docs for Git, but the few that exist are awesome. Many developers take the easy and quick approach to working with git by setting up an account with Github and then using tools like gitx to visually manage and track their repos. While I do love this approach for many reasons, there are many reasons to setup your own git hosting and tracking…
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Tagged git, hosting, indefero, Terminal

We’re quick to turnover when we really believe in something. One of the automated scripts we wanted for our company was a system to upload mockups to a directory and have them automatically publish in a web page. This system allows us to simply drag and drop images and have them populate with different versions and folders. We also wanted this functionality to be password protected and to have a way to separate public and private folders in a directory.
For security purposes I have removed the actual session control script that we use (which is a way of protecting pages via login). However, it does come standard with a simple login posting ability so even if you know nothing about programming, this script should come in handy.
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Tagged application, Free Download, Web Design and Graphics, Web Development
If you’ve decided to start your own website, then congratulations on deciding to join the information age by planting a stake on the Internet. Now the only question is how? How do you go from your basic idea to a web page that everyone will want to link to?
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Tagged Web Development