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Cameron Laird

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Mar 5, 2009, 11:08:58 AM3/5/09
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QOTW: "... [chan pipe] is not here to compete with [open |] in the simple
cases. [I]ts only added value is for more complex setups like separate
stdout/stderr sniffing." - Alexandre Ferrieux


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
Spring is in the air - well, according to the meteorologists on the
northern hemisphere at least - and that brings us a nice little
3D demo ...

The light side of things
- As said in the introduction: a nice little 3D demo at
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771> - your chronicler (platonically)
loves those solids.

- Listening to music via your computer is no big deal nowadays ...
even to the point where you don't know what you have anymore.
Well, maybe these tools can help a bit - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22616>

- Spring, summer next: the ideas for projects in the Google Summer
of Code keep being added - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22182>

The heavy side of things
- Tcl's event loop is simply wonderful, but what if you want to
insert your own event sources into it? Read this page for
starters: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17195>

- As easy as Tcl is, there are those common mistakes that
everybody seems to make. In fact, you can fill a number of
Wiki pages with them - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3798>

- For a new feature like TclOO there always remain things that
need to be done - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22139>

- Once you understand them, coroutines are big fun. Read all about
them: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21446> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22231>


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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