The FreeBSD Handbook covers most FreeBSD installation topics in depth, but the following is exactly the way I install all of my systems. This process is quick and will get you into a system that you can customize to your liking.

I have put together a basic reference of chmod permissions. Enjoy!

For a more complete "e;guide"e; to little things like this, check out my full guide to using a shell.

R is read   W is write   X is execute

git is an awesome reversion-control system (amougst many other things) Coupled with gitosis for easy user/project/groups/access management and gitweb to get a great visualization of a project's repository, it can quicky scale to any project at hand.

scrotwm is an excellent tiling window manager that I have been doing my development work in lately. I have found it amazingly useful, though the docs on it are pretty scarce. As of this writing, there is still no .deb package for it and it is not in the repository, so I have outlined a quick install.