From:	 "Bryan Oakley" <boakley@austin.rr.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 30)
Date:	 Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:49:36 -0500 (CDT)

Quote of the week:
"Tcl may not help you GET a job, but it will definitely help you DO your
job."
  -- Bryan Oakley, in answering the question "should I learn Tcl?"

    Did you know...? GMV (www.gmv.es) has used Tcl/Tk since 1994
    for many space and defense related projects, including portions
    of a spacecraft flight dynamics support system for the European
    Space Agency.
        http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1888.html
    (the above is a new feature for Tcl-URL. If you know of a company
    or product that is successful because it uses Tcl, and would like
    to see the company or product mentioned in Tcl-URL, please
    contact the Tcl-URL editor)

    The big news this week is the 8th annual Tcl conference, going
    on in conjunction with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference.
    Some of the attendees have been updating a wiki page with their
    observations. Many (all?) of the papers are available via ftp
    from the O'Reilly web site.
        http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1879.html
        ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/conference/os2001/

    Fun with sounds, part I: The Snack Sound Toolkit version 2.1.1
    was released. Snack allows you to add sound to your tcl
    applications. Snack also works with Python, if that is your wont.
        http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

    Fun with Sounds, part II: Wavesurver 1.0.4 was released.
    Wavesurfer is "an Open Source tool for sound visualization and
    manipulation", and has features attractive to both novice and
    advanced users according to the web site.
        http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/

    A Blast from the past: The SpecTcl GUI builder received some
    bug fixes after a three year hiatus. The amazing thing about
    SpecTcl is that it supports the generation of not only Tcl/Tk
    code but also Python, Perl and Ruby. See the announcement in
    comp.lang.tcl.announce, and the SpecTcl web page:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5a3af4ee11811c5,1
        http://spectcl.sourceforge.net

    Steve Cassidy continues to write valuably on the subject of
    installation
	http://mini.net/tcl/1896.html

    Pat Thoyts is working to make Tcl available for WSH
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ad43df1c990ccee6

    Cameron Laird has written a tutorial on how to use WSDL4TCL.
    It is available on the IBM Developerworks web site. You must
    register to see the tutorial, but registration is free.
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/education/r-ws-atcl.html?n-ws-7261

    Last week's Tcl-URL mentioned a security alert raised against
    Tcl. The problem is not a pervasive as the alert made it seem.
    Read up on what others had to say about this on comp.lang.tcl:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=21be59be688b2e22,4

    Andreas Otto continues to release updated versions of his
    "Compiler". In addition to announcing version 2.0beta4, he has
    announced the availability of a BWidget "binary".
        http://www.compiler-factory.com
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=46b4cceafe283cec,1

    [incr Tcl] is headed for the core
	http://tcl.activestate.com/cgi-bin/tct/tip/50.html


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://tcl.activestate.com/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.com/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/0.html
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://mini.net/tcl/969.html

    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

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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