Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "[A]t this point in my life, my SOP for MS databases is to export them
suckers immediately, and use something that works." - Steve Offut


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  Your Wiki chronicler has a weak spot for pages like the Geneva 
  drive (http://wiki.tcl.tk/16330), almost tempted to call it 
  the Mona Lisa of the Tclers' Wiki :). Anyway, the summary!
  
  Down to Earth
  - Nothing like a thorough explanation of a useful tool,
    this page describes the SDX utility to build starkits
    and starpacks - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6084>
  
  - Sometimes a Wiki page gets corrupted (often by some
    spammer or some hooligan). Here are the steps to
    repair it. Nothing fancy, just as it is intended:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25648>
  
  - Find out what the range is for the [clock] command.
    A simple application of [catch] - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25650>
  
  Technical skills 
  - Amazing how many data structures deal with the storage and
    retrieval of a bunch of strings ... And they all have
    fancy names - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22018>
  
  - The Tcl library itself uses stubs, but you can have your
    extension define its own stubs too. Here is how that
    works: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3358>
  
  Making it visible
  - A nice looking IDE for Tcl and a set of tools to go with it.
    Have a look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5334>
  
  - Communication from computer to cell phone, with a little 
    help from this Tk interface - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13499>
  
  - An old question resurfaced: can you display text in 
    two or more columns, using the text widget? Sure, here
    are some home-made solutions - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1295>
    

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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, 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&...

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