I’ve worked with all the major players in the PHP framework space, and there are good and bad takeaways from all of them. My goal isn’t to bash on any of the others, because they all have fairly equal strengths and weaknesses.. some obvious and others not so much. This post will instead be focused on one of my favorite frameworks, Kohana.
Tagged application, Frameworks, Kohana, PHP, Web Development
Buddypress is an awesome add-on for WordPress, turning an average blog into a full-featured Social Media Network or multi-user blog or forum. Buddypress Features new and robust tools built in for leveraging internal communication and promoting user interaction. Here are some highlights of why it’s often best to just build on Buddypress from the beginning rather than building on WordPress..
Tagged buddypress, facebook, Web Development
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