Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "When I deal with threading, I work on the principle that the
hardware and OS are my enemies and hate me, and so I code accordingly.
It probably doesn't make for a maximally-efficient program, but it does
reduce debugging pain." --Donal K Fellows

"A failed engineering consensus is a poor reason to add configuration
options.  (For me, one of the beauties of Tcl is that it 'Just Works',
and I don't have to spend hours babysitting its configuration.)

Life is full of tradeoffs."  --Kevin Kenny


    Catch up with Jeffrey Friedl's ruminations on "What's New
    with Regular Expressions".
        http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/07/15/regexp.html

    Jeffrey Hobbs and others contribute to a technically-involved
    thread detailing Tcl_HashTable changes and 8.3 / 8.4 binary
    compatibility issues induced thereby.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6acb8e2e5dc39969

    George Peter Staplin updates his megawidgets contributions:
    Cscrollbar and Ctext.
	http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki action:

    More pages on the Wiki every week!  Now we have:

    Complete applications and libraries:
    - The plot package Plplot is described in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3631>
      It is the underlying library for many applications and an interface
      to Tcl/Tk is readily available.
    - If you need to deal with directed acyclic graphs, why not try the
      following pages:
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3716> contains the Tcl code for handling the graphs
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3717> has procs to read and write the Graphviz format
      that is suitable for storing such graphs
      and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3722> completes it with examples
    
    Some Windows-specific pages:
    - Browsing through the dreaded Windows registry,
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1516> tells you how
    - Should you feel the need to make a Tk application with a
      multiple-document interface, then stop and visit
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2163>. We leave it to the reader whether that
      is a wise decision :-)
    
    Bits and pieces:
    - Games can be fun with and without pictures. An engine for text-based 
      adventures by Larry Smith, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/863> 
    - Editing date and time in a GUI can be tricky, 
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3019> needs some more work to cover the various
      formats used around the world.
    - Just a small but practical script to handle and display a set of data,
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3743>.
    - A nice little method for searching in a multilevel list, started by 
      Richard Suchenwirth, optimised by Michael Schlenker, cooperation  
      par excellence, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3743>.
    

Everything 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

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/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

    ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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