Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 29)
Cameron Laird
which programming snobs may not recognise, and allows the programmer to
concentrate on the shape of what is to be delivered rather than the hurdles
to be overcome in delivering it." - Steve Blinkhorn
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action, and my
apologies for the long delay in passing it on:
The Wiki remains true to itself: a wide variety of
subjects as almost any week. So let us start ...
Utilities
- DTrace is a very powerful tracing facility. Available
for various languages but of course for us the Tcl
support is most interesting: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19923>
- Making platform-independent development with Tcl even
easier, this TIL library is a useful tool:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/14619>. Note the discussion on that
page - we tend to understate the importance of such tools.
- When working on a small machine with eTcl, you may
benefit from this "support" page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19642>
Fun and functionality
- Ever worked with gnocl? Here is a nice example of its use:
a (basic) editor - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20241>
- From a latinised representation of Chinese to the real thing ...
UNICODE support keeps us amazed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14254>
- SOAP - love it or hate it. But if you want to use it, there
is sufficient support for use with Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1707>
- Mangle your words and get something similar sounding but
nonsensical: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3620>
- Play your MIDI files - here is a small library to do so:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/20928>
- And who does not want to know his/her place on Earth?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/11109> solves that vexing question with UTM!
- Graph algorithms are fun: this little library leverages the
::struct::graph package in Tcllib - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3716>
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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Benjamin Riefenstahl
Cameron Laird writes:
> - From a latinised representation of Chinese to the real thing ...
> UNICODE support keeps us amazed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14254>
This seems to have moved to <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14255>. Probably
because of the typo in the previous title.
benny