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QOTW:  "I had a number of personal reasons to realise the FEMTOL program and
accompanying library: Fortran and Tcl are my two favourite programming
languages and this is the ultimate combination." - Arjen Markus on c.l.t in
his Announcement of FEMTOL
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/d3548586...

"Textvariables are great for experimenting with model/view/controller
systems." - Richard Suchenwirth


POTW:
    ANN: FEMTOL	by Arjen Markus
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    FEMTOL - A reimplementation of Tcl in FORTRAN
    I am pleased to announce FEMTOL 0.1 alpha - a reimplementation 
    of the Tcl language and interpreter in FORTRAN 77. 
    While the implementation is not complete yet, 
    it is in a useable state and I would lilke to encourage
    you all to try it.
    Homepage:
	http://ftcl.sf.net/

    ANN: Tcl3D Demo of the Month April 2007
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    As the Wiki is still read-only (sigh), I have put the actual 
    Demo of the Month for April onto my homepage:
	http://www.tcl3d.org/cgi-bin/demolist.tcl?DemoOfTheMonth
    The April demo is NeHe's Lesson 25, a nice example of morphing.
    Although lots of code is done on the CPU with Tcl, it runs quite \
    smooth.


ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    regarding multi-layered notebook widget
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    A question of usability and taste.

    Tcl event loop and threading
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    How to cross compile TCL8.4 and TK8.4 for arm-linux
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    reusing "code entities" without oop
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    Lego Mindstorms and Tcl
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    nothing new here, walk on.

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    using swig/tcl for 3rd party packages
    	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    
    Text Input with TclKit on Nokia 770
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

PMAG: Tcl in printed and other Media:
    On Threads:
	http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/threads.pdf
	http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/menuitem.5d6...


In regard to the Wiki, Steve Landers helped Arjen Markus with this report:
  You may have noticed the Wiki is in read/only mode right now. Let me  
  try to explain what happened ..
  
  About two weeks ago, there was a significant load placed on the wiki  by 
  multiple spider programs.  We don't think it was a deliberate  
  denial-of-service attack, but that was the effect nevertheless. The  
  spidering brought the machine hosting the wiki to its knees, broke  the 
  wikit edit locking mechanisms and eventually resulted in the wiki  
  database being corrupted.
  
  The good news is that the database has been restored, and still  
  contains all the information that was there before the problem. And  
  secondly, knowledgeable people are working hard to get the wiki up  and 
  running in read/write mode again.
  
  On the surface it would seem a simple task to prevent a re-occurence  
  through firewall or web server rules - but it isn't as simple as  that.  
  The open nature of the wiki means that it is more difficult to  
  recognise and restrict inappropriate access - in fact, this almost  
  certainly needs to be done in the wiki software rather than just in  
  system infrastructure.
  
  Given this, a number of people are working on moving the wiki from  CGI 
  based operation to a multi-threaded web environment, and adding  other 
  security and performance measures that will hopefully prevent a  repeat 
  of the problems, while retaining the easy access we have grown  to love.
  
  Amongst those helping out are Jean Claude Wippler, Pascal Scheffers,  
  Kevin Kenny, Sean Woods, Colin McCormack, Jos Decoster and Steve Landers
  
  These efforts are bearing fruit, though they are not quite ready for  
  public availability. So we'd appreciate your continuing patience.


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/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  In the
meantime, an alternative is
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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