Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 6)

QOTW:  "The most significant developments that have happened in the last
couple of releases are things that I couldn't have predicted." - Kevin Kenny,
on five-year planning


    Gerald Lester explains a bit of the spirit of binding-writing:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Numerical calculations in Tcl?  Sure:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  Yet another week passed, even more than that since the previous
  summary. No time to waste therefore!
  
  Only human
  - Though the Wiki page seems set on the start of June for the 10th
    European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting in lovely Strasbourg, the meeting will
    be held in September instead because of holidays -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26620>
  
  - Sometimes your imagination is only a bit ahead of reality ... The
    musings on this page show that in the case of an ideal programming
    language - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11444>
  
  - Ever felt you were controlled by your agenda or calendar? Well, now
    you can feel controlled by your agenda and your calendar and Tcl:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21553> opens up to the halfbakery.
  
  - Write code to let the computer write code for you. No, it is not
    a Quine but a genuine attempt to collect the techniques you can use -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1021>
  
  Graphical tips and tricks and tools
  - Want to scroll a bunch of widgets? Don't want to use a container like
    the canvas or the text widget? It can be done! Maybe not as smooth as
    these two, but with a bit of "prestidigitatry", eh presto!, the trusty
    grid geometry manager will help - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1125>
  
  - Free-hand drawing on a widget helps to sign a document!
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16987> presents just such a widget.
  
  Other tips and tricks and tools
  - A console program to manage the contents of an SQLite database, all in
    Tcl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16272>
  
  - Dealing with dictionaries decribed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17680>
  
  - Variation on a theme: a jolly nice little script that defines a
    complete, more or less programmable, calculator - look at the last
    part of <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1270>
  
  - Oh those dreadful binary numbers! Why is 0.1 * 0.1 not 0.01 but
    0.0099999999? Will this package be the answer to so many puzzles?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28305>
  

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&...

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