Twentieth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2013)

Basic Information

Note: As it seems, the Bourbon Orleans Hotel is no longer a member of the Wyndham Group. Its website changed from wyndhambourbonorleans.com to http://www.bourbonorleans.com/ ! The old URL is redirected to wyndham.com.

Program/Schedule

Monday, September 23 (Tutorials)

Morning Tutorials

• Intro to Tcl 1
• Advanced Topics with Sean Woods

Afternoon Tutorials

• Intro to Tcl 2
• Web Services in Tcl

Afternoon Free Tutorial

Tuesday, September 24 (Tutorials)

Morning Tutorials

• Intro to Tk 1
• Intro to TclOO

Afternoon Tutorials

• Intro to Tk 2
• Advanced Tk: GUI Design

Evening Certification Exam

• Basic Level Certification in Tcl

Wednesday, September 25 (Technical Sessions)

09:00 - 10:30

• Keynote: Karl Lehenbauer

10:45 - 12:15 Session 1

• A simpler and shorter representation of XML data inspired by Tcl: Jean-Francois Larvoire
• Web(-like) Protocols for the Internet of Things: Emmanuel Frécon
  • Presentation
• A State-Driven, Service-Oriented Dynamic Web Development Framework: Stephen Huntley

13:15 - 14:45 Session 2

• The TyCL compiler internals and preliminary performance analysis: Andres Buss
• Integrated Tcl/C Performance Profiling: Chuck Pahlmeyer
• Characterizing Interpreter Performance Over Releases: Phil Brooks

15:00 - 16:30 Session 3

• TAO/Tk: Sean Woods
• Scintilla Tk: Brian Griffin
• Dynaforms & Dynaviews : Will Duquette -- code available in the Athena repositories

Thursday, September 26 (Technical Sessions)

09:00 - 10:30

• Keynote: John Ousterhout

10:45 - 12:15 Session 4

• Digital Scope: Ron Fox
• The Cmdr Framework: Andreas Kupries
• Tcl And PKI: Roy Keene

13:30 - 15:00 Session 5

• Updating Tk Extensions For Tcl 8.6: Sean Woods
• Scaling Data Structures for Tcl 9: Donald Porter
• Optimising Tcl Bytecode: Donal Fellows
  • Presentation (via SlideShare)

15:15 - 16:15 Session 6

• Tcl, The Glue for a New Generation of Nuclear Physics Experiments: Ron Fox
• A Plague Of Gofers: Will Duquette

16:15 - 16:45 WIPs

Friday, September 27 (Technical Sessions)

09:00 - 10:30

• Invited Talk: The (Active) State of Tcl: Jeff Hobbs

10:45 - 11:45 Session 7

• Rapid Product Development with Tcl/Tk: Bruce Ross, Clif Flynt
• Tcl Beans: Will Duquette

12:00 - 12:45 Tcl Community Association

• What's going on with Tcl Community Association, Town Hall

Transportation