From: Cameron Laird on
QOTW: "... the only thing it seems to be good for is, if you see
somebody
using [concat], you can be pretty sure that they don't understand Tcl
and
need help." - Joe English


http://www.sqlite.org/draft/download.html has the TEA-tarball betas
for SQLite 3.7.0 beta. Notice especially the availability of
write-
ahead logging:
http://www.sqlite.org/draft/wal.html
http://www.itworld.com/software/112800/database-round


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
The football championship is doing strange things to people
in your chronicler's corner of the world, but fortunately
the Wiki is not suffering from that.

Old pages resurfacing
- Maurice Ulis's work still lives on the Wiki, now with a
few screenshots. See the pages on Hugelist and Virtuallist,
for instance - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6784> and
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/10035>

- The alternative small-footprint implementation of Tcl, Jim,
gets attention as well - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13693>

Demonstrating features
- Gnuplot may have its quirks, but hey, you can do fascinating
things with it. Especially if you use Tcl to tame it
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13555>

- XML files must fit their XML schemas. see this demonstration of
an easy way to verify the relationship - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24361>

- If you want to learn more about the canvas widget, this may
be a useful start: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15073>

Packages and applications
- The development environment MyTCL is gaining more and more
features.
Look at the screenshots at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5334>.

- If you use dictionaries a lot, you may benefit from this collection
of tools - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17686>

- A tool implemented in both C and Tcl, this package helps compare
files and lists with full UNICODE support. Its home is revealed in
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/26364>

Photographs
- A large number of pages deal with manipulating photographic images:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/10504> for instance, unfortunately the images
themselves seem to have gone.


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&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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

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