QOTW:
What's the name of the
bracestarbrace-thingy? Does it have a catchy name, so I can say to my
other freak-programming-languages-fan-friends: Yes, but Tcl has
"bracestarbrace", how about that...? Stefan Kuhagen
It is called the polyphemus operator. Jeff Hobbs in reply on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/f0bdbab37e3c722e
POTW:
The Tclers Wiki
http://wiki.tcl.tk initially ( and formerly ) known as http://mini.net/
On June 14, 2002, Jean-Claude Wippler announced the wiki on comp.lang.tcl.
The wiki had been around for a while before that announcement. However,
the wiki's use exploded at that time.
Happy Birthday to You! Dear Jean-Claude and Dear Wiki
Announce: TCL Development Tools - Eclipse Europa Release.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/6c63d126ace45dd5
Eclipse based Tcl Development tools are now available from the Eclipse web site.
Eclipse C/C++ Ide:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/c.php
Tcl Plugin:
http://www.eclipse.org/dltk/downloads.php
Tutorial - Tcl Debugger and Interactive Console(Windows WMV format).
http://us.xored.com/~haiodo/EclipseCon07/dltk-tcl-debug.wmv
Tutorial - adding features to Eclipse - Ruby demo but same principle for Tcl.
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/technology/phoenix/europa/AddingFeatures
ISO: ActiveTcl's teacup information by Larry Virden
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/b77f2062df38b4d0
Over at http://wiki.tcl.tk/teacup , I've been adding bits and pieces
of information about the community extension repository that has been
tested over the past year. I'd love to get additional information
added by anyone else out there who also has been experimenting. Also,
if you have questions that aren't asked and answered there, add in
questions and hopefully we can figure out answers.
TeaCup:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/teacup
Aejaks 0.5 released by Tom Pointdexter
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/1fe553e4184582b9
Aejaks combines the server-side Ajax windowing system Echo2 with the
powerful simplicity of the Tcl langauge. The result is a rich
development environment in which to develop Ajax-based web applications,
often with much less code to write. Aejaks was conceived and written by
Tom Poindexter. Please subscribe and use the mailing list for Aejaks
related discussion. Subscription information at:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aejaks-general
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=184611
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aejaks
Homepage, Documanetation:
http://aejaks.sf.net
POLL:
What is a short and concise
name for the {*} syntax element?
Enter Your Brainchild here:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/19707
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Thoughts about {*} operator
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/d391e4b4011cb280
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/796e35b69a58c184
MacOSX Run Loop vs Tcl (FSEvents)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/660c120835a633e6
Variable naming conventions and how to use Help file (newbie)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/89bc9909e3ad4e87
Reading fixed amount of data from non-blocking channel
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/4a46dba02d4fac25
if events are better, why is aolserver multi-threaded?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/8cdae3cc9118b8b2
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
Invalid argument while executing "load $libfile $ininame"
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/b791f87281d31419
Expect script hangs after interact call
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/8d34fece44c977b0
And we also walk dogs but don't do HomeWork
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly reports on the Wikis:
While the weather gods are playing strange and not so funny games in
various parts of the world, the Wiki remains a wonderful place. So,
let the summary begin!
Statistical and geographical data
- An extraordinary collection of geographical information about the
USA combined with Google Maps ... and Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19704>
- Remote-sensing data manipulated with NAP and turned into a picture on
the canvas: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19687>
- Poverty and richess - cast into a bit of mathematics:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19702>
Tcl centric
- A central place for constructive stories about Tcl/Tk?
This one is slowly getting into shape: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17653>
- Teacup comes to the rescue, you do not need to "brew" your
own download scripts: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19692>
Tcl tools
- Resistor colour schemes ... they bring back memories, not all
of them fun. But the picture is nice: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18068>
- Sound effects. You will need to experiment, but boy, that is
made easy: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3976>
Merry maths
- Astonishing what a recursive definition can achieve in complexity:
The Q-function behaves wildly while it definition is very simple.
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/4617>
- Childhood memories in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12385>
- A pathological curve in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8348>
- From the Gaussian integers to a Dragon-curve-like curve ...
a small step: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10761>
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
There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
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
"La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159
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 (but
needs to validate many of the links).
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even
though clta itself is dormant.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
We're working on more useful archives of past installments. In the
meantime, an alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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