QOTW:  "Of course, there are no guarantees when it comes to poorly designed 
software." -- Don Libes

"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a UI
problem." -- maintenance specialist William Dye
    

POTW:  Muonics' "... second product ... [is] similar to Scotty, but orders
of magnitude better for SNMP/MIB stuff ..."
    http://www.muonics.com/Products/MIBSmithySDK/


    Learn all about the Tcl 2005 Conference.
        http://tcl.tk/community/tcl2005

    Do you think you want something to happen periodically?  John
    Perry explains the "classical" challenges of that requirement.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/87596b7a6bb70d73/

    Pass arrays in and out of procedures.
         http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/83c7f96c3d9365a8/

    Bob Techentin understands how to drag and drop with Bwidgets.
         http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/83c7f96c3d9365a8/

    Melissa Schrumpf explains the "cooperative multitasking" flavor
    of concurrency.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6409b4bb20436811/

    Where in a widget hierarchy should events--FocusIn in particular--bind?
    Notice Donald Arsenau's succinct solution.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c51f3e6fdc7d9be3/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  Lots of little utilities populate last week's recent changes.
  And there are other things too of course. So, let's get
  started.
  
  Utilities
  - The French Wiki mentions a conversion tool, pstoedit,
    that transforms a PostScript file into some other 
    format - among which Tcl. Result: a script to reproduce 
    the PS file in a canvas - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/985>
  
  - If you need to draw in a vector-oriented way,
    in an SVG-like way, tkpath may be what you need:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14545>
  
  - Okay, you can never remember via what commands you 
    create a starkit. Try <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13999> 
    and you don't have to anymore.
  
  Cute things
  - A very basic script allows you to show a circling
    line to indicate something is doing its job and
    needs time for that - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14551>
  
  - Ever seen those panels with a shaded background?
    Nice, aren't they? All within reach as a "snit"
    widget - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14449>
  
  A thing for a tiny computer
  - Tclkit has been ported to those handheld 
    computer thingies ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13487>
  

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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