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From: Cameron Laird on 29 Jan 2010 09:41
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&as_ugroup=comp..lang.tcl

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

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