Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:   "When Personnel departments claim to require 'AS/400, Linux
... SQL Server ...', what they mean is, 'only liars or the hopelessly
naive wanted.'"  Cameron Laird
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=6706592A2BFF1DB5.6F8DF2C0AA9642CB.E2A53AA39537A49D%40lp.airnews.net&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D25

"That tcllib is a real treasure chest."  Glenn Jackman    

"If you are handling people's money via an e-commerce site, it's negligent to
not have someone around capable of running it properly, or at least showing
you how.  It would be worth your while."   David Welton 


    Bryan Oakley, Wojciech Kocjan, and Maurice Ulis apply deep insights
    in proc-rewriting, event orientation, and widget inheritance.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=51d435a16444551b

    ActiveState announces its annual Tcl award winners at the Conference.
	http://www.ActiveState.com/Corporate/Awards/ActiveAwards.html

    David Gravereaux illustrates good extension-writing style with his
    C-dense rumination on a well-behaved nagle-free channel.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d9603a77b01c22c4

    Kistoffer Lawson starts off a thoughtful thread on the best way to
    deal with link rot on the wiki.  Some ideas worth thinking about ensue...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=amfttv%24gaa%2403%241%40news.t-online.com&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D25
    
    The "Things to consider for future Tcl enhancement" thread seems to
    have run its course, with just one more post of general interest
    from Donal Fellows:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=3D8B28D2.AF79824D%40wildopensource.com&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D25
    
    A few ideas for handling light-duty animation chores:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=slrnaokr09.l5.fp%40ariel.fpx.de&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D50
    

    But if c.l.t-hosted discussion during the Conference week seems
    light, announcements have been very rich.  First, a correction:
    
    Credit to whom it belongs..., the (Windows PID) extension
    is from Ed Suominen, i just commented on it..., see the announcement at:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?q=tcl+pid+extension+suominen&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=pgpmoose.200209151326.3016%40despot.non.net&rnum=1">http://groups.google.com/groups?q=tcl+pid+extension+suominen&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=pgpmoose.200209151326.3016%40despot.non.net&rnum=1
    Michael Schlenker
    
    Making noise - Snack Sound Toolkit, v2.2a3:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=ylri9.1367%24Bd4.11193%40dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D50
    
    Making gifs whirl, blink and annoy (and very occasionally adding
    information not displayable any other way) - AniGif 1.3:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&start=25&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=yXMi9.5162%24k27.412609%40newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net
    
    Plotting:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&start=25&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3D8AD911.493DE0A9%40lbl.gov
    
    And, of course, of passing interest to a tiny few who care about
    such trivia - Jeff Hobb's announcement of Tcl 8.4 final (!!):
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=3D8E007A.9090900%40ActiveState.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl
    
    On the Wiki:
    
    Using Tcl to implement a new Desktop environment: http://mini.net/tcl/1928
    
    Using Tcl in the Microsoft IIS world: http://mini.net/tcl/2828
    
    Using Tcl references: http://mini.net/tcl/4104
    
    Using Tcl "standard" extensions: http://mini.net/tcl/30
    
    BrowseX - a very nice web browser: http://mini.net/tcl/2136
    
    

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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