I'm a researcher in an italian university and my main
field of interest now is the treatement of bioelectric signals.
I started to use Tcl/Tk as a tool language for various
tasks required by the system management in our lab.

I'm actively mantaining [Rivet], an Apache module
that allows Tcl scripts to be embedded in html pages, 
in the same fashion PHP does.

I developed an Itcl based framework for building websites.
This project has little interest for experienced programmers
and was meant as a way to become acquainted and fluent with web programming, its
issues and technologies. The final result is visible at
[http://www.biol.unipr.it/]. 

As a part time consultant years ago I worked on software for the 
building automation, an application field usually not considered 
to be Tcl's turf. I wrote some client/server applications 
heavily based on Itcl. The projects were meant to enable networked 
computers to control the resources of one or more PLCs. 
The server used xml documents to describe the plc's protocol
messages and was designed to provide integration between different systems.

The server communicated with the client (and their GUI) with an xml based
protocol independent from the plc backend.
The whole client/server applicaton was written in Tcl/Tk on a Linux 
system but happily worked on windows with little effort for handling 
the incompatibilities (about 10 os dependent lines / ~10000 lines of the 
whole application). Working with (I)Tcl in this field was very creative and 
greatly contributed to strengthen my interests in Tcl.

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