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QOTW:  "Every time I use my company's Wiki, I realise how easy it is to use
the Tclers' Wiki ...." - Arjen Markus


    Harald Oehlmann leads us to BWidget 1.9:
	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=...

    In our (successful!) attempts to be lightweight and flexible with
    Tcl, we occasionally lose track of how packages look when a newcomer
    first opens the wrapping.  JMN and Larry Virden give the essential
    advice on how to make "package register $desired_package" work for
    tcom:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Little improvements or implementations in Tcl can enormously benefit
    EDA or other applications which expose Tcl as a scripting interface:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...
    The same thread, incidentally, mentions aids to work with regexps.

    1.0b12 of TDBC:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Not only is WS::Client correct and useful for Web Service workers, but
    its support is swift and helpful:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  As you will probably have noticed: the deadline for the Sixteenth
  Annual Tcl/Tk Conference is approaching. So: time to finish that
  abstract and send it off!
  
  Last year's ...
  - Wiki gnoming has brought up a lot of older pages, such the
    presentations from last year's conference: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21794>
    is a presentation on an anatomical atlas.
  
  - Using Tcl to define a domain-specific language was amply discussed
    in this talk: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21801>
  
  - Solving ordinary differential equations using Tcl and a nice
    little extension is so much easier now that it has found its 
    way into ActiveState's teacup - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22633>
  
  Things Tk
  - Here is a widget to view web pages that has a long history:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22404>.
  
  - Here is a way to embed Windows Vista stuff in Tk:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23385>
  
  - Here is one of the many file managers written in Tcl/Tk:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/7772>
  
  - Here is a visualisation of computations, using the standard
    canvas: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22564>
  
  Tools, techniques, Tcl
  - Want to run a program that was packaged with a starpack?
    Here is a useful little helper script: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23882>
  
  - Illustrating hash tables, just pure Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22017>
  
  - A set of tools for your toolchest: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22622>,
    courtesy of Flightaware.
  
  - How to program a wide variety of tasks in Tcl and compare them
    to the solutions in other languages ... Quite illustrative:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23885>
  

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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, keeps info to 
    onvince 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&...

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