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QOTW:  "I consider the ICCCM light bedtime reading." -- Joe English

"... do not write things that look like Ivy League faculty memos." -- Joel
on dialogues
    http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html


POTW:  Testing is crucial to success.  Good datasources are crucial to
testing.  GPSFeed is an interesting model for management of a connection
to components in the real world.
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/gpsfeed


    Donald Arsenau knows how to use [regexp]'s -inline.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/dc6a4a5734584acc/

    Is there a way to take pieces out of one Starkit and put them 
    in another?  Sure:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d7d6a437a824b908/
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/sdx

    Brian Griffin has good advice for those embarking on investigation
    of who is doing what in Tk bindings.
         http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c83c400f60a8eb96/

    Andreas Leitgeb doesn't let tclsh's refusal to recognize "-c" stop
    his use of the executable as a gnumake shell.
         http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5c1850ced3860454/

    Present a paper at the Tcl/Tk 2005 Conference.
        http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6910322&forum_id=6718

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  Objectively speaking, we had a surge of object-oriented pages last week.
  While mentioning the subject is often enough for heated debates, your
  Wiki chronicler remains stoic about it ...
  
  Much ado about object-orientation
  - What is required of Tcl to support OO? Answers and further questions
    on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1210>
   
  - A nice concept from functional programming makes it to Tcl via one
    of Tcl's pet OO mechanisms - monads on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13844>
  
  - Not only monads but complex numbers too in TOOT:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13885>
  
  Much ado about wrapping
  - Well, there you are: you have this command-line program and
    now you want to use Tcl/Tk to ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4798>
    for all your questions.
  
  - Not only command-line programs, what about ... The Gimp?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11232> makes a comeback 
  
  - Not only programs on the _same_ machine, what about a 
    script somewhere else? RPC in TCL - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13886>
  
  - The penultimate wrapping: zip-files as kit-files -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13876>
  
  Yet another language comparison
  - We have seen the "Language shootout" on the comp.lang.tcl
    newsgroup, we also have PLEAC: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2113>
    describes the original book, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5994>
    points to Tcl examples 
    
    
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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