QOTW: "Don't fight with the WM; it will always win." --Joe English
"I don't think I would ever advertise specifically for a Tcl programmer,
[...] just as I don't advertise for people who can use a pocket calculator:
if you don't know how today, you will by next week." -- Steve Blinkhorn
POTW: Despite the density of buzzword compliance in its advertising,
NetKitWorks is a real and useful (Tcl-based!) product for management
of networks and their components.
http://www.netkitsolutions.com/web/products/netkitworks.html
If you have *any* practical way to get to Portland, do yourself
a favor and join the Twelfth Tcl/Tk Conference. The Tutorials
alone are sure to give great value.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/13846
Bryan Oakley provides "a solution of ease and elegance" which
illustrates use of validatecommand. Make sure you read through
to the explanation of resetting -validate.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/215d99b59b9d0b9f/
Bryan also describes sensible scrollregion management.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/98a31a0d3d40e779/
Microsoft--or at least some of its workers--is aware of Tcl.
http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars/6
Tcl twiddles bits.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/764742ce5ddc4de/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
Quite a few pages on topic from the field of artifical intelligence
surfaced last week and there is quite some interest in the text
widget ...
Artificial intelligence
- Data structures in AI are quite different than in, say, OO.
Care to have a look at Petri nets or Retes? Here is
the page on the latter: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8365>
- AI has its own specific needs for a development environment.
SOAR is such an environment - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/7447>
- Talking of IDEs ... here is one for web-development:
Myrmeco - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2129>
The text widget
- Let us start with a French contribution: VisualSQLite
- <http://wfr.tcl.tk/240> - allows you to manipulate
your SQLite database.
- Autocorrecting typed text - or alternatively using it
as a shorthand - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9022>
- Get the contents of a text widget and examine it
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3246>
- And then: how do you know the contents has changed?
Easy, as the bottom of this page shows:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/881>
From text to mere strings
- The revival of a very old page: there are never
enough functions for strings - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/44>
- A flat file and the need to jump to the right place
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14025>
A game to take our mind off of things
- Just an old game, but nice anyway: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4236>
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
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about
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/
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
An alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
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