Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 29)

QOTW:  "The most profound testament to Tcl's maintainers trustworthiness is
that they named the Tcl testing package 'tcltest' instead of 'testtcl'." - Roy
Keene


    David Zolli shepherded a starpack into the Mac App Store, and
    returned alive to tell the tale:
	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=272...

    Tcl/Tk is part of the GSoC2011:
	http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2011/...
    Students can apply through 8 April 2011:
	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=272...

    How are starkits licensed?  Answer:  it depends:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    'Know all those cool features that C++ and Java boast?  Several
    of them started as Tcl experiments:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    The schedule for EuroTcl 2011 might still change--but only if you
    speak up quickly:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Programmatic insertion of data into Excel?  As usual, there's more
    than one technique:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Learn tcltest:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  Spring (or autumn) has just begun and now we are already preparing for
  (Google's) summer (of code). Well, it doesn't hurt to look ahead - if
  you can.
  
  - An old page resurfaces: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1322> deal with a
    performance question - [catch] or [info]? There is a clear winner.
  
  - The tree control widget has been updated. See <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6064>
  
  - Inlining your source code could be advantageous for deploying it.
    There are less files to worry about. This little program does the
    hard work for you: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28159>
  
  - Leveraging gnocl widgets so that you can explore what gnocl is 
    all about ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28158>
  
  - Sometimes you need to store a lot of data in a compact way.
    Is Tcl a suitable vehicle to do so? There are plenty of
    solutions to chose from - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4558> and
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28148>
  
  - Some confusion over how hard or how easy it is to add Tcl/Tk
    to a C program. Do we really not have a proper tutorial for this? 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2074>


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&...

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