QOTW:
Never show your working prototype to the management.
It may become tomorrows press announcement of the
finished project. (D.M.Gabbitas)
http://
centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/sshp_akin.html  end of
page.
I have a feeling D.M.Gabbitas may be a tcl/tk programmer
"It is almost completely regular, which makes it
necessary to forget
a lot of stuff." - Arjen Markus, explaining Tcl to
a newcomer
POTW:
ANNOUNCE: libmsgque2.3-beta1 by Andreas Otto
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/6539ca20af76f01a
The libmsgque project is an infrastructure for linking
applications together
to act like a single application. This is done using
Unix or inet domain
sockets. The framework handles all aspects of setting up
and maintaining
the link in addition to starting and stopping the
different applications,
starting and stopping the communication interface,
sending and receiving
packages, reading and writing data from or into
packages, setting up and
maintaining the event handling for asynchronous
transfers, and propagating
warnings or errors.
Download:
http://libmsgque.so
urceforge.net/
http://sou
rceforge.net/projects/libmsgque/
MEET: a repeat from last week:
TCL 2007 Call For Papers and Proposals.
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/9cbc8e508169e226
In September 2007 the U.S. Tcl conference returns to the
historic
French Quarter of the city of New Orleans. Join us for
what promises
to be the best Tcl conference yet. Even better,
contribute a
paper, be prepared to talk about a work in progress, or
join in on
the lively "Birds of a Feather" discussions
that may range in topic
anywhere from "Using the Tile widget set" to
"Obsolete weaponry."
Tcl 2007 will be held at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel
in New Orleans, LA. Tutorial sessions on various
topics will be held September 24-25, with the conference
itself
running from September 26-28.
TCL 2007 Third call for participation/Papers.
http://tcl.tk/communi
ty/tcl2007
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Of dicts and arrays
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/bff326abc9e6edcf
samenesses and differentnesses.
Array defaults vs exception overhead
Ahttp://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/475945bc348a0dc8
INMARSAT and Tcl
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/bf1d5c069c54338a
Tcl/Tk For Mars
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/1ec3b54cff5d3fe9
Data loss with USB-serial transfer
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/f11f973df8cbe1ca
Decimal to hex conversion failing for large numbers
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/d9e48d2b81ece0eb
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
Tk/Linux: How do I tell whether a font is scalable?
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/d94787e25694e7b0
Bug in Tk menu entry index handling
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/4d971f2ddab015ac
tcllib tie package issue with remotearray datasource
http://groups.google.com/group/co
mp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/3fac791ce2a3e245
PMAG: Tcl in printed and other Media:
Programming Language Popularity
http://www.dedasys.com/articles/language_popularity.html
Tcl the Misunderstood
htt
p://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly reports on the Wikis:
With the Wiki alive and well, your Wiki chronicler sees
loads of activity, ranging from re-establishing links to
pictures via categorizing the pages to completely new
pages.
Mathematics
- Sometimes _not_ reinventing the wheel yourself is lots
of
fun and very productive: render a mathematical formula?
Here is a small utility - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18071
>
- Numerical algorithms can always be improved, it seems.
Here is a variation on the classical Runge-Kutta
method: <http//wiki.tcl.tk/15907>
- Above all, maths can be fun: you take a well-known
algorithm, a canvas and a weekend and you get:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/18055
>
- Physics is sometimes claimed to be little more than
mathematics. Well, whatever, this tool with parts
written
in Tcl deals with elementary particles:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17568
>
Technicalities
- Can a program clone itself and start the clone instead?
That would
be nice for updating a heavily used program ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/14945
>
- A megawidget without the support of any OO framework ...
Yes,
it is possible, or at least with this example - a text
widget
with scrollbars as needed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18048
>
- Natural language processing is not easy, but it can be
done.
For instance in the context of a particular TV show:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/12641
>
Humanities
- The Wiki, in all its splendor and usefulness, can
always
be improved. The people who do that are known as
"gnomes"
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17145
> is their charter.
- Two articles on Tcl ... Is it really misunderstood?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/18070
>
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.o
rg/net/tcl-welcome
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl
practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
ht
tp://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/resourc
e/
The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to
convince your
boss Tcl is a good thing
http://www.tcl.tk/script
ing/
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://e
n.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://phase
it.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://gr
oups.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/gro
ups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always
welcome.
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