Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 16)
Cameron Laird
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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