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The domain switch

After much procrastination I have finally made the domain switch over to paulturner.me.
All requests to the original domain paulturner.net are automatically redirected to the correct page on the new domain with a “301 Moved Permanently” HTTP header.
This means that all search engine traffic should be preserved, and the links updated over time.
This was achieved simply [...]

Installing PHP XCache on CentOS 5

XCache is a PHP opcode cacher, which basically means that it will cache the compiled code the first time a PHP page/script is executed thus avoiding the compilation step on subsequent executions.
I used the 1.2.2. release of XCache and followed the quick guide instructions to install from source.
The installation requires that the php-devel package is [...]