QOTW:  "CGI is like if Liberace and Michael Jackson had a lovechild, and it
was retarded." - Colin McCormack, in the process of explaining "... your
argument convinces me I should implement CGI"

"Take a deep breath ..." - Larry Virden, highlighting his own detailed and
effective debugging algorithm
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/98ac79103ba94a6f


    Among other things which Bryan Oakley sensibly teaches this
    week, Tk does NOT build in image dilation.  With adequately
    specified requirements, of course, there are ways around even
    this ...
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8bedd676e6a319be


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  With the longest and shortest day already behind us, let's take
  a look at the Wiki's latest contributions
  
  Parcels of wisdom
  - Abstractions in programming are usually a good idea: focus
    on what is important, rather than the details. But sometimes
    these details leak through the stern exterior ... 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21231>
  
  - It is often a puzzle: what does Tcl do with threads and
    vice versa? Well, this page tells the story: 
    <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/1339>
  
  - Much ado about - literally - nothing! The way to represent
    that nothing in Tcl provoked a long discussion on the 
    Tcl Core mailing list. Here is a more concise overview:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17441>
  
  Making it work
  - We have compiled extensions, we have Critcl to drive the
    compiler for us, and finally, we have the compiler itself
    incorporated: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20086>
  
  - At your own risk, you can run applications remotely, even
    over ssh, using the procedures in this page: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11542>
  
  - Trouble with printing? A thorny problem indeed. While the
    Google summer of code hopefully brings us a nice - partial
    - solution, we are not without resources:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2497>
  
  - Maybe nulls are not compatible with Tcl as we know it, maybe 
    they are ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21133> provides a reasonable
    solution.
  
  It is working!
  - The simplest of Wikis on the smallest of screens:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21259>
  
  - Cute, eh? A little game that gets no smarter than you 
    want it to be. Play it or study the code: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/7666>


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

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