I’ve been struggling around recently with running a Symfony 2.7 project having it’s configuration coming from environment variables.

I’d like to present my current solution in case of someone else might find it useful. Or someone else knows a better solution and would like to contact me so I can write a follow up.

When setting up this page, I’ve looked at several blog systems and tried out a few of them. Here are my results and why I’ve chosen Jekyll.

What I wanted:

• A blog
• Some static pages
• RSS feed
• Themable with easy customization
• Comments
• Extensible (I want my random quotes back)
• Self hosted
• Easy to setup and run
• Lightweight

The last criterium rules out the bigger ones like Joomla or Drupal.

This list is alphabetically sorted except the solution, Jekyll, which is at the end.

Of course there are more systems and this is highly opinionated. But those are the ones I happened to look at. And bare in mind that this is a snapshot of late december 2015.

So here is the list:

A new generation has been released, the SQLDumpSplitter3.

A long time ago, I wrote a program called SQLDumpSplitter 2. The readme of the zip says it was released somewhere in 2002. Wow, 14 years ago…

It’s purpose was to take take big SQL files and split it into multiple smaller ones. You could set the max size per file.

Back then it was useful for getting around per file upload limits of your hosting provider.

To my surprise, I still get some E-Mails about it every few months. I discovered that this page for example offers the little application:

http://www.rusiczki.net/2007/01/24/sql-dump-file-splitter/

Or take this site: http://www.bswebdev.com/2008/05/sql-file-splitter-to-the-rescue/

By the E-Mails I can tell that there is at least one bug in the parser and some files can’t be processed. But I can’t offer any support for this program as I don’t know where the source has gone.

The program was written with some version of Delphi. So I had to make it compatible with Lazarus first.

Maybe I just rewrite it at some point, who knows.

What a cliché as a title for the first post. :)

So I wanted this blog/page to have a small platform for some of my projects and for whenever I feel like typing something.

So I threw together some stuff with Jekyll, added some plugins, adjusted the default theme and here we go.

No specific topic here, but I guess it will be mostly about technical stuff.

All in all: Hello. :)

I’m starting with pages about two projects of mine:

• CRUDlex: My small CRUD generator for Silex
• Volume GFX: My terrain volume rendering for Ogre 3D

There might be more projects added, the pages might be extended, there might be totally different pages, the future will show.

At some point, there will be comments added. At least when some postings worth it exist. But I don’t want to just include a foreign system like Disqus and so far I’ve not found anything self hosted I like. Maybe I just write something and put it on my GitHub account.

And the random quotes will come back for sure. :)