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QOTW:  "Looking at Tcl, I'm often simply raptured about it's beauty and how
you can adapt Tcl to your structure of thinking (or, for the serious
programmer: to the structure of your problem)." - Stefan Kuhagen on c.l.t

"Don't let this go..  This is a good one." - DavyGrvy c.l.t. on on wrestling
with bugs 


POTW:
    ANNOUNCE: moodss-21.4
    This is moodss version 21.4 and moomps version 5.7, powerful modular
    monitoring applications.
    Moodss is a graphical application, which, in real-time mode, displays
    data processed by any number of dynamically loadable modules. Various
    data tools (graphs, pie charts, formula builders, thresholds manager,
    ...) are used to build complete dashboards, very easily by drag'n'drop,
    to monitor a single server up to a whole information system. Any
    displayed data can also be archived in a SQL database, which moodss
    can use for post-analysis and presentations, or even capacity planning
    by predicting the future, using sophisticated statistical methods and
    artificial neural networks.
    Moodss companion daemon, moomps, works similarly around the clock, and
    even allows distributed monitoring to feed remote moodss stations.
    downloads: http://download.sourceforge.net/moodss/moodss-21.4.tar.bz2
    and a pethora of other formats, see posting:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    ANNOUNCE: Splash library 0.3 by Emmanuel Frecon
    I have just made available a new version of my splash library. The
    version number bumped twice, 0.2 being an internal release that I did
    not make available. This new version has the availability to hide all
    toplevel windows (apart the splash) opened by an application until the
    splash is removed. This feature is based on overloading the standard
    toplevel command and is still experimental. The splash window also now
    has a decent looking progress bar, based on the poor's man progress bar
    page of the wiki and my latest modifications to the code there.

    Enjoy, the home page for the library is still the same:
    download: http://www.sics.se/emmanuel/?Code:splash
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    ANNOUNCE: imgop library by Emmanuel Frecon
    The imgop library implements a number of operations on images. The
    library implements some these operations in pure Tcl and some other
    operations through the help of ImageMagick, without requesting any
    dynamic binding to the program.
    I hope that it can be of any use to some of you. This is released under
    the new BSD license. The home page with further instructions and a
    download link is at: http://www.sics.se/emmanuel/?Code:imgop
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...


ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    Syntax, expressiveness and the beauty of Tcl
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    ConsoleWriterThread not being removed
    A Bug in generic/tclIO.c creates problems when terminating a thread
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    fileevent not working with serial
    vwait sorely missed, come back home!
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    Tips galore:
    TIP 174 by Kristoffer Lawson : Math Operators as Commands
    	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/174.html
	    Vote: In progress

    TIP 272 by Donal K. Fellows : String and List Reversal Operations
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/272.html
	    Vote: In progress
	    Vote: Done
	    State has changed from Draft to Accepted

    TIP 274 by Arjen Markus : Right-Associativity for the Exponentiation Operator
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/274.html
	    Vote: In progress
	    Vote: Done
	    State has changed from Draft to Final

    TIP 248 by Jeff Hobbs : Integrate Tile into Tk as Ttk
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/248.html
	    state has changed from Accepted to Final

    TIP 283 by Miguel Sofer : Modify Ensemble Command Resolution Behaviour
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/283.html
	    Vote: In progress
	    Vote: Pending

    TIP 287 by Michael A. Cleverly : Add a Commands for Determining Size of Buffered Data
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/287.html
	    Title has changed ( was Add a 'chan available' Command

    New Tips:
    TIP 291 by Steve Landers : Add the 'platform' Package to Tcl
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/291.html

    TIP 292 by Brian Griffin : Allow Unquoted Strings in Expressions
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/292.html

    TIP 293 by Miguel Sofer : Argument Expansion with Leading {*}
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/293.html

    TIP 294 by Lars Hellstroem : The "entier" Function: It's Spelt "entire"
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/294.html
	this one may be tipped over as the spelling correction does not realy apply.

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    XOTcl + Actiweb
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

PMAG: Tcl in printed and other Media:
    unix review article on tcl
    http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10102/ur0610j/ur061...
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...


Thanks to Arjen Markus and friends for this summary of Wiki activity:
  At times the Wiki may seem an anarchistic collection of information,
  but your chronicler prefers to see it as a very democratic medium.
  And that will be the only reference to politics this week.

	Let the summary begin!

	Deep inside Tcl
	- For the brave and stout: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17166> presents
	  the confounding history of command execution in Tcl.

	- Besides the wonderful summary by Mark Roseman, posted on the
	  comp.lnag.tcl newsgroup, you can also consult 
	  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10630>, if you need more details

	- Want to know how Tile ended up in Tk? Here is an overview
	  - down to the individual source file - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14796>

	- For a lightweight version of the Tcl language, you can always
	  try Jim - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13693>

	To edit or not to edit
	- ... and save your changes safely and revertably:
	  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17166>

	- ... and select rectangular-wise, not mere lines:
	  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15471>

	Potpourri
	- Find images via Google? No problem with this little 
	  script - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17171>

	- Okay, your chronicler knows he is treading on volatile 
	  ground, but still: object orientation is an old and
	  venerable subject with Tcl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/970>

	- Would you like to try the INGRES database system via Tcl?
	  A bunch of pages will facilitate that - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17148>
  
  
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/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also 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://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    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/

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