From:	 Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 22)
Date:	 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:56:22 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:   :"Donal K. Fellows" wrote:
:> rand mair fheal wrote:
:> > kids these days
:> > grumble grumble grumble
:> > when i was young i had to punch my cards by hand
:> :> Not my fault I was born after the invention of fire...  :^)

"Oh yes.  I remember in the old days before fire.  Things got a bit
nippy in northern climates.  Then one day, this fellow from
Ireland - Frank I believe his name was, came along with this idea to
somehow create a way to capture the warmth from that large glowing
ball in the sky.  He was talking about it on the Wiki chat room,
Kevin Kenny and Cameron bounced the idea around, wrote a small
simulation in Tcl/Tk, and passed the info along to a couple of
engineers who implemented a fire starter..." Larry Virden
    http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b249ebabccefb3c5&seekm=a28s8b%24kmu%242%40srv38.cas.org#link11

"[C]ode ... *always* lives longer than you think it will."  Bryan Oakley


    Everything you wanted to know about encoding (base 64), and then some...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2d19da1bcaf90545

    Geometry principles
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=325b0a2a72555ce9

    Senior comp.lang.tcl contributors provide deeply insightful GUI
    techniques
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ed521382a81456b4

    Debugging Bag o' Tricks
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cda7986af8534e3e

    Weekly Regexp Lesson(s)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f3a3f0f3e28e6250
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=55eb130f3d0273ea
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b741a0f048ccf599

    When is a list a list, and not a list...errrr, something like that
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3d4b785cf7e1fc25

    Remember that Tk explicitly allows for special effects
    dependent on button "flashing"
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6e2f610388f17f69

    ANNOUCEMENTS
    ------------
    8.4 Windows binaries
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C43AC1B.678CEA60%40uni-oldenburg.de

    New TIPS (79, 80, 81, 82)
        http://tcl.activestate.com/cgi-bin/tct/tip/

    TclDOM v2.0theta
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201142158.27828%40non.non.net

    moodss-15.6 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C469B1C.3070809%40winealley.com

    bras-2.2 rule based command execution 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=16990fa4.0201201425.34e7f28f%40posting.google.com

    gnocl 0.0.9 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pan.2002.01.21.21.02.42.721469.3315%40dr-baum.net


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.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    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://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/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/mini/tcl/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://purl.org/mini/tcl/969

    ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    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  

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

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