Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "Ugh, life has no meaning or purpose without wikit." - LucMove


    Daniel A. Steffen answers 99+% of what you'd want to know about
    Tcl/Tk in Snow Leopard, the current Mac OS release:
	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  Time runs fast, in these few weeks before the conference.
  So let us get started!
  
  Human things
  - On the verge of the conference, all manner of activities
    are being discussed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22636>
  
  - The official Tcl tutorial is being maintained, not much further
    development, as stated in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17557>. But the 
    remark about [gets] in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14345> seems to
    indicate a white spot ...
  
  - A book on reliable distributed systems has a new edition
    coming out soon - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17334>
  
  Warm and fuzzy things
  - Search for strings that are almost but not quite equal to
    others ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3841>
  
  - Taking shortcuts in data synchronisations is quite possible,
    using "bloom filters" - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24321>
  
  - Throw in a simple dialog window - for quick and dirty editing
    of your global variables - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24324>
  
  - This "Dali" clock unfortunately does not quite work for your
    chronicler, but check it out for yourself: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24336>
  

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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