08/20/2008

QOTW: "Use the right tool for the job." - Donald G. Porter, declining to
choose just one of [string] and [regexp] as intrinsically superior

TileGTK 0.2 is available for testing.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/67a7c911bd0c54b8

Abstracts and tutorial proposals for the next Tcl Conference
must be in by THIS FRIDAY, 22 August. This is an adjusted deadline.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/f97c2e2d7ae0768b

"The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5.4 releases of the
Tcl dynamic language and the Tk toolkit."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d5aaaea1a9e754ec/

"The release notes of Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 contain a 'Compatibility Issues'
section describing the small number of known issues."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b14aa42571fc0124

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Summer holidays are almost over, as is the summer it seems
in your chronicler's part of the world. Time for a summary
instead!

People in general
- So how did _you_ find out about Tcl/Tk? This page tells
a few such stories: wiki.tcl.tk/15972

- If you can read Russian, you will probably enjoy the
links in this page - wiki.tcl.tk/9188

- Check out this learning tool, akin by design to Smalltalk ...
wiki.tcl.tk/17395

- Should you be able to read French and you want to know what
applications use Tcl/Tk, just follow the links in
. One of these products is in the
field of engineering and physical modelling - wfr.tcl.tk/1661

For the gourmets only
- There has been talk about reforming the evaluation engine
of Tcl, , and it has actually been
done. As a consequence we now can use co-routines
wiki.tcl.tk/3449.

- Summer or autumn, the past season has borne fruit: a Tcl
extension to the Linux kernel "fuse". While your humble
chronicler has no idea what that is, check it yourself -
wiki.tcl.tk/13853

Miscellany
- A French watch or is that an "horloge"? Anyway, it requires Tk
to do more than just rectangular windows, but isn't it fun?
wfr.tcl.tk/1638

- A palette of buttons to invoke useful functions ... it should
not take up too much space. So let it float! wiki.tcl.tk/13340

- Fitting rectangles of varying sizes on a canvas - is it tough to do?
wiki.tcl.tk/21437 gives one possible approach.

- It's a wonderful hashlife, this algorithm. Quite fit for a weekend
of fun, despite its Wikipedia reputation. wiki.tcl.tk/21374

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

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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