QOTW: "Tcl's string handling has been written by paranoiacs." - Donal
K. Fellows

"Though scriptics.com is gone things overall are better than ever. There
is a more broad, diverse and plenty active development community.  Lots
of new ideas and contributions and users showing up on the newsgroup.
And Tcl 8.5 promises a bunch of very nice enhancements ..." - Roy Terry


POTW:  "Websh is a Tcl extension to support Web application development ..."
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b827c296f1ff83fa/


    Kevin Walzer and Kaitzschu recreate most of a NeXT-style file
    browser.  For them the central idea has to do with dynamic
    listboxes.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c7c3f165ae490d72/

    Tags are underappreciated.  The theme of "placement of a button with
    a text" leads to the usual steep decline in source-code complexity
    as clt exercises its ingenuity.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/aa713080cc2e6785/

    Bryan Oakley and Ihug also show use of tags in a drag-and-drop context.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2022e0a9c4f3b035/

    WavyDavy drops in for a periodic lesson on Windows-C-and-how-it-
    can-help-Tcl.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8ca1a90484e63bf7/

    Kaitzschu goes to great lengths (linear algebra, almost!) to explain
    [time] theory.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f5c4b4908e36278e/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
  A lot of Wiki pages are getting a proper reference to the 
  categories they belong to, thanks to an unknown well-doer.
  Of course, picking out the ones with new content becomes 
  a little tougher, but we will appreciate the differnce this
  makes to searching by category.
  
  Handling photographs
  - Creating a photo album is easier than all those 
    tools out there let you believe, just a page or so of
    Tcl code - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15001>
  
  - And printing an album is - again - easy:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14482>
  
  - And of course it helps if you have a photograph 
    to print. For instance one of the moon in the right
    phase: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12389>
  
  Other graphics
  - Putting a note on your screen - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13186>
  
  - Or putting a graph on your website - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8386>
  
  Other things altogether
  - A sequence of digits does not always make for a recognisable
    number, so some grouping may be called for -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15014>
  
  - Calling functions in some DLL - besides the usual suspects,
    you can also use the one in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12264>
  

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/

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