Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 29)

QOTW: "Remember, third-party does not mean second-class!" - D. K. Fellows

"If one has coding discipline, one can manage quite well with just namespaces
and the autoloader." - Rich Wurth, on object orientation


Wiki work continues:
Grey skies and real winter weather is still far away ...
at least in this corner of the northern world. But let us
step through the Recent Changes page again!

Searching
- Here is a little tool for changing text in a set
of files: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16868>

- Many an innocent "eggdrop" user equates Tcl and
"eggdrop" - here is a little enhancement to the
tkchat application to show them where to look:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17388>

- Documenting your program's source can be a
nuisance. Tools help and there are plenty
out there: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13009>

- Legal matters matter and licensing issues
remain thorny issues - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11889>
for the gourmets

Nice things
- Gnuplot is a venerable piece of software that
has a number of links to Tcl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3052>

- It is not all that hard to get an engineering notation
like kilo or mega into your numbers ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17366>

- Antialiasing can really improve the looks of things.
Here is an example of an analogue clock:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17389>

- A golden oldie: a simple engine for text-based
adventure games - you would be surprised how sophisticated
this can become - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/983>


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/

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/resource/
The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also 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

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. In the
meantime, an alternative is
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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