From:	 Cameron Laird <claird@neosoft.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 27)
Date:	 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:48:00 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:  "I'll second that. tDOM's XPath processing is extremely competent."
Pat Thoyts <URL: http://mini.net/tcl/tdom >

"No limit may be set to art, neither is there any craftsman that is fully
master of his craft."  attributed as "Instruction of Ptahhotep" (to his
son), probably around 2200 BCE

"Sometimes there is no real good reason for Tcl-denial.  It just happens."
Rael

"And anyone who is suggesting GUI programming in Java should be fired."
Jeff Hobbes

    Rael describes his experience getting Tcl to "work anywhere ..."
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bcffa27526e05677&seekm=a6d3c06d.0202191808.52056a9f%40posting.google.com#s  

    Bryan Oakley, Stephen O. Lidie and others lead the charge for
    virtual events with useful client data.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5f799aadcb2caf35

    Max M and Alex Martelli expose with utter lucidity the risks
    of reliance on Visual Basic.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5773a3f58c6b95aa

    "If you want a pre-alpha of a geographic mapping tool with database 
    ... which even runs on a CE PocketPC ... 'Tcl lets you put the
    world in your pocket.'"
	http://mini.net/tcl/tclworld

    "Give MetaKit a try, it's a lot easier than you might think!"  Mark Roseman
	http://mini.net/tcl/metakit

    The Third European Tcl/Tk User Meeting and Ninth Annual Tcl/Tk
    Conference both call for papers.
	http://www.t-ide.com/meeting.htm
	http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2002/

    Is work with VC++7 feasible for Tcl-ers?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d47530fe03cd7d81
 

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  

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