QOTW: "You have to remember the serial dogma: First you do requirements,
then design, the programming, then testing. Testing is so far removed from
the up-front stuff that clearly someone else should do that work, enabling
the data professionals to focus on data management stuff." - Scott Ambler
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Again a week has passed. It is time for the Wiki summary
Visual bits and pieces
- Interested in maps of the world? Try this page and some
of its links: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19618>
- An amazing clock, even though not everybody is fond of
digital ones anymore - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17308>
- An old page with a lot of lost links, but it may give
you some ideas ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2389>
- The functionality of the text widget in Tcl/Tk 8.5 obsoletes
this page on moving the cursor: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3082>.
Another reason to upgrade.
Visible bits and pieces
- With Tcl/Tk 8.5 comes a bunch of new C functions -
here is an overview - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20591>
- Want to know how to work with "Teacup", the facility to update
or get packages from the repository? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17305>
- A nice little plugin for do-it-yourself text editors: save or
revert changes. Check out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17166>
- Yet another standard, its usefulness and appreciation are
unknown, but read it anyway: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20969>
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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