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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 paul-turner.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 […]

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 […]