Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 19)

QOTW:  "I was 16 before I realised link binding didn't involve rubber
bands." - Colin McCormack


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  Not on a well-deserved holiday yet? Perhaps looking for some
  reading material? The Wiki mentions a few interesting books,
  so read on!
  
  For a rainy day
  - There are plenty of online tutorials for Tcl and Tk alike.
    Pick the one that suits you most at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1304>
  
  - If you prefer an actual book instead, may we offer:
    - one on networking (the electronic kind, not the social one)
      as described on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26647>
    - a general introduction to Tcl/Tk in Portuguese 
      - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26659>
  
  For a sunny afternoon
  - Arrow buttons can be a visually attractive addition to your
    GUI. They are now simply available via Tklib - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8554>
  
  - Printing support remains a complicated matter because everyone has 
    different wishes. But sometimes, even under Windows, there are 
    shortcuts possible: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9846>
  
  - Displaying the structure of a document as a tree of objects ...
    perhaps not simple, but well worth the effort. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25371>
    shows the result.
  
  For those busy moments of the day
  - You do not want to wait endlessly to update a much-used program
    on a network disk, just because the OS does not allow you to 
    change a file that is in use. The solution? Clone the program!
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14945>
  
  - Now that you have the structure of the document, can you restructure
    it? Yes, move the nodes in the tree around as shown by
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10426>
  
  For your coffee breaks
  - Did you know that there are a lot of Tcl programs in the International
    Space Station? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19954>
  
  - A command like exec can still pleasantly surprise your Wiki chronicler,
    after all these years ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1039> shows how to
    redirect output.
  
  - Themed widget support for Tk under UNIX ... not something you can
    do in a short break, perhaps, but <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26122>
    provides a concise report on the associated summer project.
    

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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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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