Arnulf P. Wiedemann

I am living in a little village in the south of Germany near Augsburg (Bavaria)

I have more than 30 years of programming behind me using languages like: Algol60, Pascal, BCPL, CPM-80, C, C++, Icon, Java, Tcl and also awk, sed, sh-scripts ...

After all the years I like mostly to program in Tcl/Tk

Programming with Tcl/Tk since 1995.

I have been and am using Tcl/Tk and Itcl in commercial applications in the company I am working for, mostly for client server applications (client on windows, server Linux/Unix protocol http using apache server and rivet, with oracle and mysql databases).

At home I am using Tcl/Tk and Itcl for doing a lot of stuff on my computers for example a GUI for administrating my CD's in a mysql database using ID3 tags or making a selection on that database and send that to xmms for playing etc. That was before I found snackamp.

Projects:

• tclurtp the low level part of tcluno [1] an uno interface for OpenOffice.org written in pure Tcl.

Work in progress:

• itcl-ng a reimplementation of Itcl based on tclOO, trying to make that an extension using only stubs interfaces to the Tcl core. 2008-12-11 beta version released [2]
• ntkWidget a reimplementation of NexTk based on itcl-ng
• tclGL a Tcl wrapper for OpenGL gl* functions generated mostly from GL/gl.h by a Tcl script
• tclGLMWFW a Tcl wrapper for GLFW but with multiple windows
• ToW Tcl on WebFreeWay (called ATWF later on) collecting ideas for a Tcl based web framework. Maybe it will be called TRAX (Tcl's Rapid webAccess eXtension). There are plans to start the implementation as a "fun" project. 2010-03-05: The start of an implementation of such a tool can be found here: [3]
• Reporting Tools with Tcl some tools written with itcl-ng to allow easy building of GUI's for reports to be shown as web pages or in a client
• itclwidgets a reimplementation of Iwidgets using itcl-ng (and Tk) without using itk
• ATWF A Tcl Web Framework written with itcl-ng using a lot of ideas from php Zend Framework
• incr Tcl in Javascript A Tcl/Itcl Implementation in Javascript based on Tcl in Javascript with a lot of enhancements and a lot of Tcl 8.6 functionality
• Tk Widgets in Javascript A Tk widget Implementation in Javascript based on incr Tcl in Javascript using DOM trees
• RAPL A Tcl Parser in Javascript (similar to incr Tcl in Javascript), which produces a binary struct like meta representation of the parsed input.

GSoC:

• GSoc Idea: Grid Manager and Html Generator
• GSoC Idea: Auto Documentation Tool for Tcl
• GSoC Idea: Tcl Plugin for Netbeans done as a project in 2011

Presentations on Tcl conferences:

• ntkWidget at the 7th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting Conference.
• Reporting Tools with Tcl at the 9th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting.
• ATWF at the Seventeenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2010).
• incr Tcl in Javascript at the Eighteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2011).
• Tk Widgets in Javascript at the Eighteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2011).

One evening every month you can find me at TUGM: TUGM Home Page.

arnulf at wiedemann-pri dot de

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