Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 14)

QOTW:  "Tcl is a perfect fit for event driven + 'Unix scripting' stuff" - Salvatore Sanfilippo
    http://twitter.com/antirez


    What's new in Tablelist 5.3?
	http://nemethi.de/tablelist/CHANGES.txt

    YES, Tcl Dev Kit builds 64-bit applications--if asked nicely:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...
	
    Insight into lists vs dicts, nesting, performance, Perlthink, ...:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  Early July, the holiday season has just started for some parts of the
  world ...
  
  Google Summer of Code Projects
  - Diving into the wonderful world of NRE and finding out how it works -
    <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/28334>
  
  - Conforming to emerging standards, this package promises a nice
    infrastructure for managing e-learning content -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28538>
  
  For the holidays
  - Looking for a fun project? Here is code for compressing
    images, unfinished, but it could be an educational experience
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12347>
  
  - The practical thing about polyhedron nets is that you can print
    them and then apply age-old techniques to construct an actual
    3D object - <http://wiki.tcl.8528>
  
  - Want to play domino? Or play with some of the mathematics
    that has evolved from these charming stones?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12970> contains a real challenge: play
    against the computer.
  
  For any season
  - The list of things that might go into Tcl/Tk 9.0 has grown
    by at least one item - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/883>
  
  - Storing data in databases is one thing, but you can indeed
    store procedures in them as well. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23188>
  
  - Enough graphical support with Tcl/Tk, even though this page
    could do with some cleaning up. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2389>
  
  - Sometimes you get insight into the evolution of Tcl/Tk from
    an unexpected source. A simple wish may lead to a discussion,
    may show pieces of history ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1205>
  
  - With a bit of magic, you can create a vi/vim "ctags" file and
    even a call tree from a bunch of Tcl sources.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28520>
  

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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