Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 26)

QOTW: "you are free to do [OO] right now, if it fits your mindset".
-- Michael Schlenker

"Tcl has not enough introspection capabilities."
-- Alexander Danilov


POTW: AOLserver 4.0.7 by Dossy Shiobara and the AOLserver team.
"AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server.  AOLserver
is the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in
the world.  AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server used
for large scale, dynamic web sites."
http://aolserver.com/


Klaus Robert Suetterlin feels the need--the need for speed!--
in chopping a string into "short chunks of a fixed length":
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=86b8e8275764922e
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=23d8ca89eb27dbbe

Robert Seeger announces a package to stub out procedures
for testing purposes.  "Tcl Stubs" is an obvious name, but is
bound to cause confusion!
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7e005534d7b56f4e

When using C to display images in Tk widgets, it's best to
work *with* the widgets instead of *against* them:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=896366f6fcd32d10

Options for cross-platform development in Tcl with relational
database and printing:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bf9301f81bbfa6be

The difference between [unset t($name)] and [array unset t
$name], especially when $name is "*":
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=89588914c0180b98


Everything Tcl-related 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

The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
http://www.tcl.tk

The Eleventh Mostly-Annual Tcl Conference will be this October.
http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/

Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
maintain references to their own software:
http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
boss Tcl is a good thing
http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

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

ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://phaseit.net/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/

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