Hi folks.  I've been messing around with Tcl/Tk ever since [Michael Jacobson] introduced me to it in 2001.

I have written the following:  tcldoc2, fickle, and tclweather.  I am in the process of writing a few other projects.  Although they were mostly developed in Win32, they ought to run on whatver platform one chooses, be it BeOS, *BSD, Linux, etc.  Unless otherwise specified, all projects are covered by the GNU General Public License.

Here's an old (1996) picture of me, in case you want to stalk me:

[http://www.jtang.org/~tang/images/techid.jpg].

My horribly out of date home page is at http://www.jtang.org.

Email me at [[concat "tang" "at" "jtang.org"].  (Sorry, I have to start spam-proofing my address[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=why+spam+sucks].)

Personally I don't like authoring HTML pages...so no bandwidth-wasting Flash/ActiveX/Javascript/etc below.

Here's what I wrote:

   * [TclStock]

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'''TclWeather''' is a simple weather applet that periodically downloads meteorological data from NOAA's web site[http://weather.noaa.gov].  The program first grabs the ''METAR''[http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml] report for the selected site.  It then pushes the data through a home-made scanner (written as a ''Fickle specification file'') and then displays it on a home-made ticker widget.  It is to Tcl what gweather[http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnomeweather/?topic_id=58] is to Gnome[http://www.gnome.org].  Here's a screenshot of it in action.

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The applet is fairly customizable, from the color choices to scrolling speed and direction.  One feature it supports, that I find lacking by many others, is that it allows for HTTP proxies as well as proxy authentication.  This is useful if one wishes to run TclWeather behind, for example, a corporation's proxy server.

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