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QOTW:  "Someone with a strong CS background will see that EIAS concept is
useful for a large class of problems." - G.W.Lester

"And so think I. And I'd expect a scripting language to support it
especially well." - Sektor van Skijlen


POTW:	aMSN and Chameleon: aMSN is an free open source MSN Messenger
clone, featuring: 
		Display pictures
		Custom emoticons
		Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
		Sign in to more than one account at once
		File transfers
		Group support
		Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
		Chat logs
		Webcam support
		Ability to autoclose the filetransfer window when it is finished
		Faster loading skin window
		( some of the 77 features have been snipped  ;-)
and its Tk/Tile.. Wrapper Plugin Chameleon mentioned in a discussion about
Tile as the ultimate wrapper around Tile. ( supplating the discontinued Tk
options tolerance in Tile.)
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/c83efd67...

aMSN homepage:
    http://amsn.sourceforge.net/
ANN of stable version of Chameleon:
Chameleon plugin : Native/GTK/QT toolkit for aMSN
    http://amsn.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=618
    
the fringe: How to migrate to tile:
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/15443


ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    ANNOUNCE: Call For Papers: 13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, Oct. 9-13, 2006
    Steve Redler IV announces the 13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference in 
    Naperville, Illinois USA and would like to place another call for papers.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    ANN: TileQt version 0.3:  in rapid succesion TileQt has matured
    to version 0.3.  Now with a different style per interperter!
    TileQt is a tile theme, which draws tile widgets with the
    current (or any other) KDE widget style, thus making tile widgets
    look native under the KDE desktop.
    Another bag of improvements comes with this release. See:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Tcl/Tk 8.4.13 release candidates are available in preparation for a
    regular release around the 19th of this month.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    the ttrace package for threads
    successfull [ package require ] is not the sole requirement for user satisfaction:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...
    manpage:
        http://www.hmug.org/man/n/ttrace.php

    Binary file reading issues (after translation)
    Kiss it with -translation binary and all your troubles may go away:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Google summer of code, to participate or not the scale has not
    been TIPped yet:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    TIP 266 by Kristoffer Lawson : Numbers are Commands
        is a new TIP
    Not unexpectedly heavy discussion flares up in tcl-core:
        http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10... 

URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
    ANNOUNCE : SWIG 1.0 Beta
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Use Swedish with Tcl/Tk
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Tcl 7.5 and Tk 4.1 almost done 
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    ANNOUNCE: Contributed Sources Archive Now Available Via WWW
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki updates:
  Let us for the sake for speed, summarize the Wiki without delay!
  
  Graphical stuff
  - Wouldn't it be nice to be able to put an image in a frame?
    The discussion about TIP 262 continues on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15692>
  
  - This is heresy - to one who loves floating-point operations: 
    rotations on the canvas that avoid them: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15694>
  
  Development and decision: GUIs help
  - A fancy looking IDE - just link through via <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2127>
  
  - A medical DSS - let the doctor decide via <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9233>
  
  Combining things
  - Take a timer script, add a DLL to talk to the hardware, et voila,
    a useful program to monitor your equipment - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15687>
  
  - From infix to prefix: your Wiki chronicler has laboured over this
    transformation ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15703>
  

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

    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/

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