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QOTW:  "[R]eading the man page sure makes things easier." - gavino


    Rob Sciuk and terryowen rave about SQLiteStudio:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Harald Oehlmann has his own recipe for single-file executables:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Let us waste no time - there is too little of it anyway ...
  
  Some chemical stuff
  - Reading the molecular structure of some chemical as found in an SDF
    file may not suit everybody's ideas of a fun project, but the result
    is pretty: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24059>. For a more powerful alternative, 
    you may want to look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6429>
  
  - And visualising the dynamics of molecules is yet another application
    oriented to chemistry: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24044>
  
  Some graphical stuff
  - With the latest changes to Tk on the Mac, Tk applications will
    look quite acceptable on that platform, if not more: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13734>
  
  - Viewing 3D objects in the canvas ... not as difficult as it might
    seem: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15032>
  
  - How about taking a picture and turning it into a set of ASCII 
    characters that (coarsely) reproduce the picture? An old form
    of computer art revived: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24052>
  
  - Tools for geographical maps. Well, to deal with the "mapserver".
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24055> will tell you more.
  
  Some algorithmic stuff
  - The myriads of ways dates and times can be given present nasty
    complication, but this code harnesses at least a useful subset:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24074>
  
  - A framework or two to deal with abstract data types, useful when
    dealing with correctness proofs - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9547>
  
  - Coroutines continue to amaze. Here is an example of keeping
    your applications interactive: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24060>
    sound and formally correct
    

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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