QOTW: 
 "The Expect book has a whole chapter on the trap command if you're interested 
in a lot of stuff you'd be better off not knowing :-P"?Don Libes 

 "I never really got to grips with regexp."?Mark G. Saye 

POTW: 
 TclXML 3.0 Release Candidate 1 by Steve Ball: "The TclXML project is a 
collection of tools and libraries for handling XML documents with the Tcl 
scripting language. It has Tcl, C based XML parsers, DOM interfaces and XSLT."

 http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/ 

"exec" doesn't have to be hard. If  works from the command line, try 
"exec "; chances are, you won't have to modify  in obscure 
ways:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e1f8b55e4f47e47d 

Parsing the host and port from a URL is discussed in the rather generically 
named "Getting text from string" thread:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cc3d93d6c075226f 

Half-pipes: not just for skateboarders anymore! They're also for Tcl geeks who 
need to sort using an external process:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f944a8d9440d3469 

Reining in an overzealous tcltest suite:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=59f41e5c9beeeedf 

Finding out whether a modifier key is pressed or not. As usual, there are 
other answers to the *real* question at hand:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9feebb8666763b94 

What to do if your idea of what a "word" is doesn't match Tcl's is discussed 
in "help with regsub..." (start with msg 4):

 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c8812c42bfb7ae75 

Jakob Nielsen provides good background reading on "usability", certainly a 
rubric important to Tcl developers:

 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html 

Growing pains for panedwindows:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=595f5edcdd3fb4f5 

Another discussion of "multi-dimensional arrays", and a good example of "list 
of lists" indexing in 8.4 and later. 

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e1d0c78d6500dddd 

 Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of recent Wiki activity: 

 It has been a slow week on the Wiki - the time of year, probably. But there 
are a few gems to be found anyway. 

Technical tips and tricks 

Do you need to know if a new file has been added to a directory or an existing 
file has been changed? Well, the details are OS-dependent, but here is a page 
that will help out: http://wiki.tcl.tk/9654 

Brighten a gray image - insert a background colour with 
http://wiki.tcl.tk/96666 

The looks of Tk continue to be discussed. With a few nice looking pictures 
(but your chronicler has a blind spot for some things): 

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9485 

tDOM is not only useful for XML documents, but here is a way to use it to 
check generated HTML as well http://wiki.tcl.tk/9645 

Here is a parser for Tcl code that makes further code analysis real easy - 

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9649 

Potpourri of other pages 
Here you go, a nice little tutorial for tDOM - http://wiki.tcl.tk/8984 

Pondering over an application server: what it is and how to create one ... 

http://wiki.tcl.tk/2407 

And do the pondering whilst listening to a bit of TclMusic - 

http://wiki.tcl.tk/3977