September 14, 2009 Archives

Mon Sep 14 12:20:57 EEST 2009

A friend's Bulgarian personal blog

Here is a link to a friend's of mine personal blog. Unfortunately the blog is fully in Bulgarian and therefore requires you to be a native Bulgarian speaker. However the blog content is a valuable one and even a translate via Google Translate might be of use to English speakers. Here is a link to the Blog itself
Martin Petrov's Personal Blog

Mon Sep 14 11:19:19 EEST 2009

Linux / FreeBSD Text Based Gallery Generator (llgal, igal, igal2, bbgallery)

Recently I was looking for a handy way to generate nice html or php like gallery. After some asking in freenode and some help provided by some guys from #debian chan as well as some personal research. I came across 4 handy progs that works like a charm. Here is a list of the generators:
1. llgal (llgal is an easy and fast on-line gallery generator based on iGal)
2. igal1 and igal2 (igal is a quick and easy program for placing your images online.)
3. bbgallery (small perl script generating the galleries)
. All of this gives you a way to modify the default templates according to your willings.
Be aware that bbgallery requires perl html compatability.
A small example of what you can expect from the newly generated gallery can be seen here generated with llgal and some more here generated with igal .
I personally liked more the generated default galleries with igal because they looked a bit more fancy although that llgal includes a way more advanced possibilities and options.
One of the main things that could lead you into using llgal instead of igal is that llgal supports generation of galleries from directories and subdirectories in a recursive manner, where the end generated output lists you all your pictures from directories and it's sublinks into a common gallery right into the root directory it was executed.
One more helpful tip in case if you decide to include all subdirectories in a unique gallery use:
llgal --Pall .
llgal comes with a handy howto that describes many of the fancy llgal features.
Hope you have some fun with this three.