Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "... when it comes to strings, 'do the simplest possible thing
that could work' is an excellent policy ... being very clever tends to
defeat hardware optimizations, which are essential if you want to go
very fast." - Donal K. Fellows, on optimization with modern CPUs


    Les Cargill and Robert Heller briefly but understandably illustrate
    construction of modeless dialogues:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Getting diagnostics right can be delicate.  Robert Heller and ZB
    help with the visibility of tk_messageBox:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  Already the end of August - the conference will be only a month from now ...
  
  - Want to see TclOO in action? Here is a nice demonstration of 
    megawidgets with TclOO - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22036>
  
  - Always a pleasure to look at 3D pictures. And the continued
    development of Tcl3D is well documented. All can be found
    via <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15278>
  
  - From a picture on the canvas to a picture in an SVG-file
    is a small step: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4940>
  
  - You may have missed the revival of BWidget (now with ttk flavour),
    so luckily the information is here too: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2251>
  
  - Jacl may not cover all of Tcl's commands (for instance fileevent),
    yet it is possible to send e-mail via Jacl. For more details:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24294>
  
  - The weather is not what it used to be. This beautiful little
    application is causing trouble - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17514>
  
  - But that should not keep us from "ruling the world". As 
    demonstrated here, it takes a few tools, but then it is 
    at your feet: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24099>
  

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&...

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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