From: Mark Roseman <roseman@teamwave.com> Subject: README: Tcl-URL! - the weekly guide to Tcl resources (Dec 21) Date: 22 Dec 1998 14:39:32 -0800 Details on the Tcl2K conference, a must read perspective on Tcl extension development, a new book available, a big milestone for comp.lang.tcl, and some interesting new software. Tcl-URL! will take a break for a couple of weeks, so we'll see you again in the new year - enjoy your holidays! De Clarke and Tom Poindexter have released more details about the upcoming Tcl2K conference. So what are *you* going to be submitting? Contact someone on the program committee if you have questions or need advice about an idea you'd like to write about http://www.usenix.org/events/tcl2k/cfp.html Frank Stajano's paper in this year's Python conference had some useful insights into why he thinks Python's extensions are evolving faster and are easier to work with than Tcl's http://www.orl.co.uk/~fms/ipc7/tr-1998-9.html Clif Flynt notes the availability of his new book, Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers http://x11.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=423685630 Larry Virden notes the 10th birthday of Tcl, and the 8th anniversary of comp.lang.tcl this week http://x11.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=423118867 Yet another reason that Tcl is an excellent tool for building collaboration software is provided by Mark Lawson, who released the TkHiNote extension for accessing Lotus Notes databases http://x11.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=422979997 Tom Poindexter releases his Sockspy program for watching TCP conversations, very useful for debugging code using sockets http://x11.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=423745445 The tkAbout program is a front end to common Unix commands http://home.earthlink.net/~tarozax/ Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/ Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center http://www.scriptics.com/resource/ NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/ Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/ Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.announce http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/ Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts http://www.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/ Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Tcl-URL! Team -- -- Mark Roseman <roseman@teamwave.com> http://www.teamwave.com TeamWave Software Ltd. [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]