I like to write the weekly {Tcl,Python,...}-URL! digests. It's recreational, for me. I [http://phaseit.net/claird/misc.writing/publications.html%|%write] also for more conventional publications. I've written chapters on Tcl [http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl.html] and other scripting languages for several books, and do a column [http://www.regularexpressions.com/] twice a month on scripting. Along with this part-time journalism, I'm a full-time software developer [http://www.phaseit.net/]. ---- One of my characteristic habits is to threaten over an extended period to work on various community projects. Occasionally, with enough motivation, I actually follow through. On the possibility that one of these will interest someone, I'll list a few of the half-baked items currently on the shelves: [tcllib]: documentation, performance enhancements, examples, corrections to RFC non-conformance, ... [Andreas Kupries]: If you have time please add such information to the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib%|%tcllib tracker at SourceForge]. Or feed them piecemeal through me. [Memory introspection] commands: Win-Tcl documentation: Greatly sanitized [tcltest] distributions: More [Tcl/Java] write-ups: Testing theory: Help with [TinyTcl]: Elaboration of [George Peter Staplin]'s Tk-Xlib work: which I greatly admire Propaganda on why Tk is wonderful: More explanations of the "[option database]": Write-ups of "Tcl in the real world": Tclish expert systems: response to [Larry Virden]'s observation that "this is part of the info that I keep harping about being needed for USERS of Tcl...: most of the Tcl doc is written for application developers accustomed to code diving". [package]-ing is a particular example. [Tclkit] evangelism: ---- [Dave Snyderman] claims I described myself as a "walking Wiki index". I don't remember that ... ---- Maybe you didn't write it on the Wiki, and therefore don't have the index. ---- mailto:Cameron@Lairds.com: [mailto:claird@neosoft.com?Subject=tcllib%|%claird at neosoft dot com]: obsolete email <> Person