In the chat, Arjen Markus and Pascal Scheffers have decided to see who wants to attend a Dutch Tcl Users Group.
Update:
New meeting has been planned! (finally)
Date: wednesday, 15 december 2004, time: 19:30
Location: In Rotterdam, near Station Alexander
Unitas Software
Schinkelsebaan 15a
2908 LE Capelle a/d IJssel
tel. (pascal) 06-28 66 1068
Agenda:
Put your name on the agenda if you are interested in doing a presentation.
- 17:45-18:00 meet at Station Alexander.
- 18:00 pre-meeting dinner; location (near Station Rotterdam Alexander); call Pascal if you arrive late and want to know where we are.
- 19:30 Welcome / Coffee / Who's who.
- 19:45 Presentations (20 ~ 40 minutes each? Who wants a slot?)
- [Pascal Scheffers] See ideas below.
- ...
- 21:30 End of meeting.
Presentations suggestions/ideas for 15 december 2004:
- (Idea/Request) Adding a Tk Gui to a C++ application Anyone interested in doing a presentation on this?
- [Pascal] I can do a talk on several subjects: 1) Using SQL databases from Tcl; 2) Parsing EDIFACT messages; 3) Writing a (simple) jabber client/bot;
Who will join us on 15 december 2004:
First meeting: Was held on monday evening 10 Februari 2003
The location was the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, Faculty Building (entrance on the third floor - Dutch counting, go up to the 19th). Time: 19.30
So, who will join us? Please add your email address, or send it to Pascal or Arjen, so we can keep you updated!
- Arjen Markus
- Pascal Scheffers - Pascal-at-scheffers-dot-net
- Clif Flynt???
- Jean-Claude Wippler
- John Remijn
- Jos Jaspers - J.Jaspers at fss.uu.nl (sorry, allready have plans for that evening)
- Aldert Nooitgedagt - aldert-at-nooitgedagt-dot-net
- Hilmar Nooitgedagt - hilmar-at-nooitgedagt-dot-net
- Martin Weterings - martinweterings-at-wanadoo-dot-nl
- Peter Welten - pwelten-at-zonnet-dot-nl
- Marcel Broeken - m-dot-h-dot-broeken-at-fss-dot-uu-dot-nl
Topics, Talks and Catering
PS I am rather new at this (TUGing), so what does every one want? If enough people show up, a couple of full blown presentations would be nice. Or we could keep it simple and just chat about what we do. I'll start of a list of things I've recently Tcl-i-fied, but please add things you have done or would like to discuss.
- Linking database applications together (Postgresql, Sybase, MS Access)
- Fully automated, encrypted email messaging
- Web based database applications (AOLserver)
- Using Tcl to create network tunnels
- Mail transformation with Tcl and qmail.
- ...
AM Let me add the things that I use Tcl for:
- Mathematical tools - just hobbyism I suppose, but I find Tcl to be particularly easy for that
- Test automation - especially for the numerical models and auxiliary programs I maintain and develop professionally
- Graphical user-interfaces - a few commercial applications where light-weight GUIs are required
- Controlling external programs - both as part of test automation and for its own sake (catching the results, making sure all the input is there etc.)
AN An OpenACS user. As a physician, I TCL at application-level. I'll ask my brother to join, Pascal.
- Personal homepage package OpenACS/dotLRN.
HN [L1 ] I'm the Portal Developer for Tiscali Plaza (used to be Sonera Plaza)
- Mainly using TCL for web-development on Vignette StoryServer V5...
- ...but I also use it for some shell-scripts (where I don't know enough about, or can't be done by sh or bash)
- Got interested in AOLserver because it's a more flexible and ofcourse free alternative to SS
- Would like to discuss PowerDNS and PowerMail (http://www.powerdns.com ) which have become open-source on November 25 2002.
- PowerDNS and -Mail lets you keep your zone files (DNS) and users (mail) in a RDBMS
("MySQL", Postgres, Oracle or most other) and info can be updated by a sql statement
- There is an interface (PowerAdmin) but it is in PHP.
Would like to see some peoples ideas on 'porting' to TCL
JR A typical TCL user, for quite some time now. Currently using TCL for test automation. Or more exactly, i am encouraging others to use it. And being quite succesful at that :-) Related to this i am interested in the following topics:
- Database access from Tcl (various relational databases)
- XML, DOM
- Coupling TCL with some of the Rational tools.
JCW - Been doodling with scripting for some 4 years, mostly Tcl. Decade of C++ before that, decade of C before that. I make my living doing consulting & development, working from home. Interests:
- scripting and persistence: moving database technology beneath the surface - in particular Metakit/Mk4tcl
- installation-free deployment: Tclkit, Starkits, etc - latest development is Starchive [L2 ]
- figuring out how to make on-line/remote communities of IT professionals and novices work - wiki's etc
- getting IT back to meaningful proportions - million-LOC apps should be given a place next to the dinosaurs
- finding more ways to "think outside the box", member of Mission Impossible 5oftware Team, yada, yada, yada
Cross postings
The TUG meeting was also announced on:
- comp.lang.tcl [L3 ]
- The OpenACS bboard [L4 ]