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QOTW:  "Even errors in basic Tcl syntax do not raise an error; they compile
to bytecode that will raise the error during execution." - Don Porter


    Bryan Oakley urges newcomers to GUI geometry to have courage in
    proliferating frames:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Allen Taylor and Guilherme Polo make interesting advances with
    "thread-safe Tkinter" that are hard to summarize:
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2008-Oct...
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2008-Oct...
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2008-Oct...

    A typical example of the occasionally frightening intelligence 8.5
    of [clock] packs in:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/7d269ade...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Last week we had the conference and so summaries of the presentations
  abound on the Wiki. Go to <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21760> and click on
  the title! For a bunch of pages not related to the conference, read on.
  
  - While hardcore electronics is not your chronicler's bread and butter,
    he can appreciate a schema: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21586>
  
  - Do you need to know the (outside) temperature and you do not have
    a thermometer at hand? No worries: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10507>
  
  - Creating charts is one of those things. Whether Google is good
    at them or not, creating a wrapper to make the service work via
    Tcl seems easy: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21768>
  
  - Were you ever mystified by those ubiquitous barcodes? Well, there
    is a simple system to them: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9335>
  
  - Antialiased fonts, good or bad? I guess we will never get The
    Definite Answer to that question. But in the mean time:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9015>
  
  - Here is yet another repository for Tcl code - a wide variety
    of small applications and tools: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21809>
  
  - The projects that were carried out during the Google Summer
    of Code are reported here: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21777>
  
  - And, last but not least, a demonstration of a new feature in
    Tcl 8.6, how to use coroutines for multitasking:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21555>
  

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

    "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&...

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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