'''About Me''' My name is Matti J. Kärki and I'm a software developer (working full time as a software engineer) and I'm also a computer science student. I live in Finland. You can contact me by sending e-mail to this address: mjk@iki.fi My homepage (in Finnish at the moment): http://www.iki.fi/mjk/ '''Where I Use Tcl/Tk''' I use Tcl/Tk for all kinds of tasks. Here's few of them: * My weblog is generated with Tcl script. * I use Tcl/Tk for vector graphics designing involving geometrical objects and text (I generate images using canvas and save the results to EPS file, which is then converted with GhostScript to PDF for printing). * Tcl is excellent for small commandline tools, text parsing and editing (regexps) and all kinds of simple every day tasks. * Even if Tcl/Tk is handy tool for small tasks, it is capable of handling larger problems also. I'm using Tcl/Tk for larger applications and for rapid application development and prototyping. * If I need to whip up some GUI fast, Tcl/Tk is the right tool for the job. * Tcl is an excellent glue for combining different applications together. For example, I get nice pie charts out of my MS Works Spreadsheets using CSV files, Tcl/Tk and GhostScript together. * Simple C-interface makes it possible to me to use Tcl/Tk for GUI and use shared libraries to get the best performance out of it. * At work, I cannot directly use Tcl/Tk at my projects, but Tcl is still present at my working process. I use Tcl to generate reports from C, C++ and Java files (reports usually contain information about function definitions, constants, variables and code comments). This information is then used in my documentation process. '''A Little Rant''' I ''hate'' scandinavian alphabet! My last name has this fancy character "ä" in it. So of course some browsers try to convert it to UTF-8 format instead of good old ISO-8859-1. OK, normally it's not a problem, but I noticed that the alphabetical list of Tcl Wiki users, which has my name with "ä" in ISO-8859-1 format, screws itself up every time someone makes a change to the page. So, half a time, when someone edits the [Tcl'ers] page, my name morphs to a hideous UTF-8 monster. It's unpleasant, but not as big problem as the fact that the link to this page will break down. I changed my name to use "a" instead of "ä", so my name will always show up correctly in the listings. Tcl Wiki doesn't seem to handle scandinavian characters very well and it doesn't allow using umlauts (ä etc). \ä ---- [[ [Category Home Page] | [Category Person] ]]