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• December 18, 2014 Andrew Rousseau Programming, Game Development

  Install Xcache on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and SilverStripe 3

   To optimize and accelerate website performance you can use an opcode cacher such as Xcache.  Bellow are the steps I took to get this installed.

   

  Step 1

  Install xcache

  apt-get install php5-xcache

   

  Step 2

  Update config for xcache

  sudo nano /etc/php5/mods-available/xcache.ini

  Set a username and password

  [xcache.admin]
  
  xcache.admin.enable_auth = O

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• December 21, 2014 Andrew Rousseau Programming, Game Development

  SilverStripe 3 syncing assets directory

  In our workflow we often find ourselves needing to sync our different environments like a live deployment and a staging environment.  Unlike some other cms platforms, SilverStripes database transfers very easily.  We use a tool called Navicat to first dump one database and then to execute the resulting .sql file on the other database.  This of course could simply be done via the command line (which is better for large databases too).

  The database isn't the only th

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