From:	 "Tom Wilkason" 
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Apr 23)
Date:	 Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:59:51 -0500 (CDT)

QOTW:  "Tcl is not Perl; Tcl's syntax is small enough to fit in the working
memory of a typical human." - Cameron Laird.

    Registration for the Tcl-2001 conference, part of the O'Reilly Open
    Source Convention, is now open.  Tutorial sessions are on the 23rd
    and 24th of July, with the general sessions occurring July 25th
    through the 27th.  To register, visit
        http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
    Early registration saves up to US$400.

    Pat Thoyts announces TclSOAP 1.3. This package provides access from
    Tcl to remote procedures using the SOAP protocol over HTTP.  The
    code is at
        http://www.zsplat.freeserve.co.uk/TclSOAP-1.3.tar.gz
    and the documentation is at
        http://www.zsplat.freeserve.co.uk/soap/doc/TclSOAP.html

    Bob Techentin announces version 1.0 of the units conversion library.
    The units conversion library provides a conversion facility from a
    variety of scientific and engineering shorthand notations into
    floating point numbers. Find it at:
        http://units.sourceforge.net/
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/units/

    Jacob Levy  announces e4Graph, a C++ library that allows programs
    to store graph-like data persistently and to access and manipulate
    that data efficiently. Find it at:
        http://e4graph.sourceforge.net/

    Wondering if you can run your Tcl script as a service under NT?
    Check out a couple of ideas at
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=640d67a411c78e01

    If you ever wonder about the internals of Tcl, read an interesting
    discussion of reference counting, shimmering and persistence of Tcl
    objects at:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=62758babdd3cb119

    Performing long computations in your backend code and want to keep
    the GUI refreshed? Read the following thread for ideas:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=ae5585278ab883ad
    Kevin Kenny was generous enough to summarize much of this on the wiki:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1526


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/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/

    Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity
        http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/ 

    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/

    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.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/


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