Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "Tcl doesn't SEGV.  Not for long, anyway.  Nothing scrambles the
Tcl core team like a SEGV." - Colin McCormack


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  If you are not a sports fan or do not like watching winter sports,
  a look at the Wiki will provide plenty of reading material.
  
  - From IP address to the place of origin, only a few lines of
    code and a table are required: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8889>
  
  - Keeping the connection between an external program and Tcl
    open ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1117> makes an appearance
    after quite a few years.
  
  - TclOO may be - quite intentionally - a bare bones 
    object-oriented extension, it can do lots of tricks,
    with a little help: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21595>
  
  - The hash algorithm that has been part of Tcl for 
    so many years is under discussion: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5164>
  
  - Effective use of Tcl modules - use this template:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25702>
  
  - Here is a financial application written in Tcl/Tk. Balance
    your books! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25736> contains the 
    relevant link.
  
  - Extracting documentation from the source code with extras.
    Quite a few tools are available (<http://wiki.tcl.tk/13009>
    gives an overview) and Natural Docs is one - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19914>
    

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 
    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
    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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