QOTW:  "[T]o reinvent TeX in a few hours is not that simple ;-)" - Richard
Suchenwirth
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/3819

"I'm really liking the use of dicts to store partially processed http
requests, and treating the handling of http requests as a process of
transforming the dict and then serializing it to the socket.  I get
many of the benefits of object-like encapsulation without feeling
guilty about overhead.  I've got all the processing metadata stored
as -elements, and I can just throw in another piece of metadata ad
hoc, if it feels like it might be useful.  AND I can use
[return -request $dict] for exception handling, which is extremely
useful and powerful." - Colin


POTW:  "Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X:  it allows applications
that support Growl to send you notifications."  There's a binding for Tcl.
    http://growl.info


    David Gravereaux corrects messages sent on exit to the Windows OS,
    and recounts a bit of the history of related errors.  The thread
    nominally focuses on signals and Windows services.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/3c5f6238fcecea46/

    Roy Terry explains bgerror and "the big catch".  Errors need to be
    understood, of course.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1ef3b77109229cfb/

    Donal Fellows sketches a mostly-imperceptible bump in DWIM EIAS:
    Tcl's UTF-8 is slightly denormalized.  We believe that the only
    true liability "is that C code that wishes to work with a bytestream
    can't ... just grab the bytes ..."  Bugs in this area will receive
    expert attention.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2f1a38c4af5a31c9/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
  The year will end in less than a week, so this will be
  one of the last summaries in 2005 ... No time to waste 
  then!
  
  Graphics
  - Annotating a photograph in Tcl is not that hard,
    as shown in <http;//wiki.tcl.tk/15163>
  
  - There are many little drawing programs to be 
    found on the Wiki, here is one especially for
    this time of year: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15176>
  
  - Should you not like Christmas, maybe this 
    animation will help you get into a better 
    mood - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15178>
  
  - And for the insatiable: viewing three-dimensional
    objects is a piece of cake - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15084>
  
  - Serious now, a widget that looks like a meter ...
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1038> - yes, on the French Wiki.
  
  Numbers
  - Your chronicler is getting old, he had completely
    forgotten about this page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10490>
    deals with alternative formatting of numbers, among
    other things.
  
  - An alternative way of computing with "real" numbers 
    - down with the binary system! Well, sort of.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15166> deals with ordinary
    well-behaved decimal numbers.
  
  Paradigms
  - Why stick with the need to prescribe computations in
    detail? Just ask what you want and it will be given
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15157>
  
  - Never forget about other languages ... They may
    hold hidden treasures - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11025>
  
  
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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