Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 11)
Cameron Laird
"Astonishing how hard it is to find something when you don't know its
name..." -- Peter Flynn
POTW: "Moodss: it's a nice operating system, but to really compete it needs
a better spreadsheet." See for yourself all the functionality that
justifies Larry Smith's quip. http://moodss.sourceforge.net/
EuroTcl5 is only days away.
http://www.t-ide.com/tcl2005e/tcl2005e.html
Aric Bills and other provide a tutorial on Tcl's view of the
command-line.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/index/browse_frm/thread/6e9fd58a42962ed7/
Donal Fellows discourses on comments
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f534c6194d05ff33/
Richard Hipp gracefully introduces SQLite as a persistence
technology for those with an interest in safety, concurrency,
and so on.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/a04f3ffc45963ccf/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
The Wiki may be a large set of pages with little hierarchy, that does not
mean that old pages are lost forever! Actually, last week saw the revival
of quite a few of those ...
Publish or perish?
- If you have a nice little Tcl program, where can you put it so other can
find it? The Wiki is one place, but sometimes you need more ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/1250> provides some guidance
- This overview may not be complete, so if you know of more articles on
Tcl then please add them! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1016>
Read or write or edit?
- Reading the serial port is a piece of cake, it seems -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/1885>
- Writing an text editor in Tcl is too - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11820>
- Why would you derive the expression for the derivative of a function
yourself, if you can let the function do it on its own?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/14092> builds on the work of others ...
One picture says more than ...
- A spline is not quite a spline, well, you have several possibilities
to define the curve you want - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8536> offers
at least two!
- Enjoy the 3D world of spirals ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14096>
- An expose of GUI "themes" and their consequences in the Tile
extension ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13373>
- An alternative for listboxes - just draw the items in a canvas
and you can easily drag them and drop them - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14109>
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
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
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
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
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http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
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