Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 13)

QOTW:  "... one year into using Fossil instead of CVS, I can now not
understand how we ever got by before....  The CVS to DVCS transition
is every bit as liberating as the RCS to CVS transition was two decades
ago...." - Richard Hipp


    'Going to TclCon2010 in October?  The official conference schedule is
    up at:
        http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2010/schedule.html
    Registration is available through:
        http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2010/reg.html
    Planned social events include a tour of FermiLab and other intoxicants.


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  With the international Tcl conference less than a month away
  we have passed the "27000" border. So, let the summary begin.
  
  On and off
  - The Wiki can be used online and offline, as you know of course.
    But the details about the latter may be rusty, so check
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20412> for an update.
  
  - Spindle is a new project wrt building websites. Quite a few
    technologies in that project should lead to something that
    is easy to use. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27001>
  
  - Another new project is StarStore - a data storage system
    based on the idea of key-value pairs, but more sophisticated.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27002> holds the key.
  
  - A classic algorithm revisited - with dicts this time, but
    you can also follow the links to mathematically more sophisticated
    versions of this Eratosthenes sieve - <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/12600>
  
  Up and about
  - Extending doxygen with support for Tcl ... That is a nice 
    idea: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27011> reports the progress.
  
  - Do you play a musical instrument? Then you may be interested
    in controlling it via MIDI. Here is a page devoted to doing
    that from Tcl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20928>
  
  - Torsten Berg and your Wiki chronicler have been preparing several 
    nice new features in Plotchart. These (and others) will become
    available as "version 2.0". Screenshots? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26967>
  
  Naughty ... or not?
  - The first or one of the first legitimate Wiki pages devoted to 
    porn. Or should we say, it is devoted a special form of image 
    manipulation? Anyway, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27015> mainly contains
    code. 


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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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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