QOTW:  "Any time things get complicated, write them differently." - Donal
K. Fellows

"The big secret to tuning AOLserver is that there isn't much to tune.
There's minimal gain to be made by increasing the transmission buffer sizes
in nssock, and you can play with the MaxThreads, increasing it until
contention begins to dominate your timing.  Most people I've encountered
trying to tune AOLserver are saddled with slow applications which really
don't respond to tuning." - Peter M. Jansson


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Exciting new things on the Wiki this week, if you happen 
  to like experiments with programming concepts. 
  
  Some pictures
  - Your humble chronicler is always impressed by the ingenuity of
    mechanical devices. See <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20841>  for the 
    latest Tcl implementation of one!
  
  - Every month a new demo: Paul keeps his promise and presents
    yet another one: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771> 
  
  Some experiments
  - Local variable scopes in Tcl? It seems so easy to achieve:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20829> . Of course now we need a useful
    application of the idea :).
  
  - The byte code engine of Tcl is now the subject of serious
    experiments: it seems to make continuations and other 
    "exotic" programming concepts very easy. Not to mention
    tail recursion. See: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20865> 
  
  Some applications
  - Watch things on the file system - simple, flexible and
    straightforward: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20839> 
  
  - Using the Wiki offline ... Simple and it could be useful,
    but the page tosses some fresh ideas around too:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20412> 
  
  Some projects
  - The Google Summer of Code attracts quite a bit of attention
    on the Wiki. Check out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20836>  for a few
    organisational aspects and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20832>  for
    ideas so far (any students who want to get involved?)
  
  - But for people who are looking for a smaller project, you
    can also check <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14335>  for ideas.


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
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

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

    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
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    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

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  In the
meantime, an alternative 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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