Got a mail from someone that gallery plugin, which I made for IkiWiki is not working and is giving error while rendering images..
Firstly, I thought that he must be making mistakes in setting the permissions of directories or probably because of some difference in settings. As, I formatted my comp few days ago, I didn’t have working version of IkiWiki so I downloaded the newer one and installed the plugin. Sadly, I found out that I faced the same problem. After, long hours of looking in the code and IkiWiki discussion pages, I found out that IkiWiki has changed the permissions for files which are being rendered by plugins and are not present in source directory mentioned by user.
And, files in directory called underlay dir can only be used by plugins.
Updated the plugin, so as to allow turning off resizing feature.. I still don’t know how the thumbnails were getting rendered when images were not..
Anyway, plugin is in usable state again .. and you can use it as

[gallery imagedir="imagedir" resize="0" options="" ]

I will allow resizing again as soon as I look into the “conditional underlay of files”. For those of you who are using the older version of IkiWiki, you won’t face any problem, so enjoy :)

It always feels great to see that people are using something developed by you :)

I need to switch to IkiWiki asap for blogging. I need desktop blogging software, I don’t want to go to blogger every time I have to write something. See, this is why frequency of my posts is very low.. .. I can peacefully write from my terminal window. :) Only problem with that is that, I only would be managing the database in that case which increases the probability of all the posts getting deleted by infinity :(

Jo bhi hai, newer version of gallery plugin is at SVN repo :
http://ned.snow-crash.org:8080/svn/ikiwiki-gallery/