QOTW:  "Big Iron DBs are for when you have Big Iron access patterns." - Donal
K. Fellows

"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from corruption." - Colin
McCormack


    Tcl Core Team, the executive committee for Tcl's development, is
    in the midst of its biggest change since its founding:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/9814405023ab699d
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/775bf5121349f96d
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/b215a043caa33558

    Java to XOTcl source?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/b3be2afafa12e888

    Announcements:  GemTcl, TclXMLv3.2, ...
	http://freshmeat.net/projects/gemtcl
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/e164392bf2da2d88


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  With December threatening to be colder in these parts of the
  world than we have grown used to, let us not linger too much!
  
  Interfacing
  - Do you know the problem? Websites that require a password
    and you who can't keep track of them? Maybe this tool
    will help: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22012>
  
  - Let Tcl help you find your way in a MS Excel spreadsheet:
    this simple script shows some of the basics -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21291>
  
  - Impressive frames and animations generated by having
    Tcl drive the procedure: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16879>
  
  - And why not write a little extension to a C++ library 
    that handles Bayesian networks? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19881>
  
  Graphics
  - Here is the latest 3D demo again: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771>
  
  - While it may be unfortunate that "Puppy Linux" no longer 
    uses Tcl/Tk for its tools, it does not mean you can not
    use Tcl on it: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11951>
  
  Bag of tricks
  - Creating temporary files will be easier in Tcl 8.6:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/772>
  
  - Always fascinating to see specialised data structures 
    implemented in Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22018>


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.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  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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