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 [email protected] or checking, if I'm lurking at irc.freenode.net at the #tcl channel (nick: mjk).
My homepage (in Finnish at the moment): http://www.iki.fi/mjk/
Tcl/Tk and Me
1995 I bought a book called "Linux Installation and Configuration" (or something similar). A nice book, which introduced me to the rich world of the Linux (and Slackware Linux especially). I think the book also had tips for using Tcl/Tk as a scripting language. Ever since I've used Tcl/Tk more or less for various tasks.
My Contributions to Tcl Community
Check the page mjk and click the title of that page to see all pages in this Wiki, where I've been writing. There isn't much :( I've been a busy man, but I'm trying to help Tcl Community whenever and however it is possible for me.
I have made a code for Finnish Hyphenation.
Where I Use Tcl/Tk
I use Tcl/Tk for all kinds of tasks. Here's few of them:
Tcl Stuff
I finally made myself to finish my old side project: writing a barebone example, how to create shared libraries to extend Tcl with C. The code with explanations can be found here: http://www.iki.fi/mjk/files/test.c.txt . I hope that the text is clear enough to explain what is required and what each thing does in the code.
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).