Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

Thanks to Jeffrey Hobbs and Philipp Knuesel for their help this week.

QOTW:  "Open source works best when people scratch their own itches."
                                                      Kevin Kenny

"I bet there's not much 9 year old Java code laying around that still
works ;-)"                                            Bryan Oakley


POTW:  Genesis Toolkit populates ray-traced models.
    http://www.bowlvisions.com/gt.htm


    Important announcements:  8.4.3, TDK 2.6, and ActiveTcl.
	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html
	http://activestate.com/Products/Tcl_Dev_Kit/
	http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/

    Michael A. Cleverly started a tdom tutorial on the wiki.
    Learn and add your own knowledge at
	http://mini.net/tcl/8984

    Deep discussion of a specific DoS vulnerability leads
    to more general issues of Tcl security and resource
    management.
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/dos
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fcabecff0e40e80e

    Should a vanilla programmer have to care about encodings?
    Yes, in fact; everybody needs at least a few (three?  one?), 
    if only to reach the file system.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=5e189940ec76eceb

    One of the great introductory ways to help with Tcl is to
    work through Tk's tcltest suite.  Every volunteer makes a
    difference.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=6a02e3d20e6088e2

    Tcl has plenty to offer even in the most demanding circum-
    stances--especially if you're as accomplished with space and
    time as Donal Fellows.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=b254075e358533fe


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki activity:
  Last week we passed the 9000 pages mark. Sure, there are quite a few
  empty pages that are waitng to be filled, but still ... Okay, here
  we go:
  
  Community:
  Last week was the week of the Fourth European Tclers' Meeting, 
  check out <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6273>, for links to the papers and
  a short report on what went on.
  
  Games:
  Two new games to be found on the Wiki: 
  - A card game (Video Poker) at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8987>
  - A puzzle game (a bit like Sokoban) at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9018>
  
  The famous i18n support explained:
  - Unicode and UTF-8 are the subject of <http://wiki.tcl.tk/515>
  - Richard Suchenwirth presented an overview at EuroTcl4 (see above)
    that is more than worthwhile to read
  
  Widgets and graphics:
  - Antialiasing of fonts? More information on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9015>
  - Restoring the contents of a widget? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9007> might
    help you get started.
  - What about paned windows (those frames with an adjustable boundary
    between their two parts)? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/565>
  
  "Faits divers":
  - Real numbers are always fascinating, if only because of the puzzles 
    they present, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8992> is yet another page that
    discusses the precision, but be sure to follow the links.
  - Finally, a Java servlet that lets your Tcl scripts interact remotely 
    with a database.


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

    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

    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

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/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/

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