QOTW: "And why, oh why can't anyone but the Evil Empire give me a font
with lowercase numerals?" Stylist Kevin B. Kenny, who typically (when not
writing for work) uses Monotype Caslon Old Style for running text and
Friz Quadrata for display text.
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Ah, the days pass fast when you have loads of meetings! Luckily the
Wiki is a reliable oasis to rest your feet and feast your eyes.
A bit of sound, anyone?
- Putting Tcl to work: control an audio device ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19503>
- Snack was out of the picture for a while, but recently it has
gained momentum again. Discussions on sound quality not from
audiophiles, but from speech experts: they want a lossless
format. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21123>
Laziness, randomness, anything goes!
- Here is a nice idea: lazy lists - no need to first create
the list in full and then manipulate its elements -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21178>. Infinite lists, anyone?
- When not satisfied with lists, try the next level:
lazy objects. It is an oldy: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2515>
- Some people can not get enough of random numbers. Well,
they are fascinating - especially techniques to make
sure they _are_ random: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1551>
Playing it safe
- Sometimes you need a unique number, well, to identify
something for instance. Various names and various
techniques can be found at: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10871>
- Electronics never was your chronicler's favourite subject.
But hey, you can deal with it in Tcl, which makes it
kind of interesting: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21140>
- We have seen games of all sorts - mostly with fancy graphics.
But a relaxed way of playing a game is simply by text:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21135> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21136>
for a different style.
- Wouldn't it be nice to have a calendar you can do anything
with? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13497> is not quite there yet,
but there is some promise ...
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.l...
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