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QOTW:  "I like to have error messages return human readable status codes."
                               sheila miguez

"Automatic storage reclamation is fundamentally at odds with typelessness."
                               Joe English


POTW:  Xapian is "[a]n advanced one-source full-text indexing package ..."
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/xapian


    Along with all his good work on Tcl-related Conferences in 2005, 
    productive Clif Flynt offers Proceedings from last year's event
    in New Orleans.
        http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/

    Michael Cleverly explains funny characters in URLs.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ddce32e032e9dc91/

    The AOLserver Team releases 4.0.10.
        http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=438535


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  Perhaps I should start with this Erratum:
  
  Last week I wrote:
  - The French Wiki keeps track of articles and other publications where Tcl
    is referred - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/4>
  
  The proper place is: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/479>. Given that they are 
  bibliographical references, this page is also very accessible if you do not
  read French.
  
  Education
  - The French Wiki also has an interesting page on testing someone 
    reaction time. It is part of a course on programming and mathematics ...
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/890>
  
  - The information is a bit distributed, but there is plenty of it, if
    you need to write a (compiled) extension - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1191>
  
  Music
  - Got an iPod? Then this library may interest you: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12185>
    
  - Here is another library for fiddling with musical information:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13306> (and not limited to violins either :))
  
  Leftovers
  - Security matters. Here is a little quarantine facility for starkits 
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3384>
  
  - How do you develop your software? Maybe a test-driven approach is
    suitable for you too? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13327>
  
  - Get your emails from the server - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9541>
  
  - Have a free floating palette of buttons! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13340>
    demonstrates how to add this type of widget to Tk's collection
  

Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things 
    Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl


    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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