Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "Most of the jobs on the boards are for Java Developers needed to
engineer next generation solutions to enable maximization of buzzword use
by marketing, and to provide the enterprise customer with best of breed
technology for growing the total cost of ownership."  David N. Welton

"Well, sooner or later you get an overflow - even on 64bit systems ;)"
Reinhard Max
                                      

    During a discussion of manipulation of stdout in an existing
    library, Derk Gwen achieves clever effects with unlinked
    named pipes.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=26ff5f7526db1392

    David Gravereaux has several lessons to teach:  how to deploy
    applications with extra encodings
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=69661635f123a791
    part of the relationship between threads and interpreters
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=977f28ff150ee0a5
    and how to wrap a commercial-grade library (Voicetronix, in
    this case)
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2c73d5bb5d01830

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
  The Wiki has now more than 6000 pages - that mark was passed last week. 
  Larry Virden continues to create new pages for all the packages, so it
  is worthwhile to look into these too.
  
  Here a few other highlights:
  - Ulrich Schoebel shows how easy it is to make Christmas Stars,
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6096>
  
  - Andrew Tannenbaum (apt name for the time of year *) has an example
    for using "fileevent"  in a simple client/server application.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1757>
  
    (*) I hope Andy is not offended: Tannenbaum means pine tree in German
  
  - Toucan is a desktop IDE for developing Palm OS applications. Details
    on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4133>
  
  - Interested in the history of Tcl? Here is what Richard Suchenwirth
    thinks of Tcl 2.1 - yes, one of the oldest versions still available!
    on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6046>
  
  - With the holidays and all, who can resist a few puzzles: the Combinator
    engine page, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4833> now holds a few exercises. 
    Try them first before sneakily reading the page with the answers!
  
  - A few mathematical formulae to close this overview: rendering them
    is not that easy or that difficult, first attempts at 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6004>
      
  
Everything 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

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor 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 Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google 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://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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