by [Mark Roseman] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=424513281]

''Details on the Tcl2K conference, a must read perspective on Tcl extension development, a new book available, a big milestone for comp.lang.tcl, and some interesting new software. Tcl-URL! will take a break for a couple of weeks, so we'll see you again in the new year - enjoy your holidays!''

   * De Clarke and Tom Poindexter have released more details about the upcoming Tcl2K conference. So what are *you* going to be submitting? Contact someone on the program committee if you have questions or need advice about an idea you'd like to write about http://www.usenix.org/events/tcl2k/cfp.html
   * Frank Stajano's paper in this year's Python conference had some useful insights into why he thinks Python's extensions are evolving faster and are easier to work with than Tcl's http://www.orl.co.uk/~fms/ipc7/tr-1998-9.html
   * Clif Flynt notes the availability of his new book, Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=423685630])
   * Larry Virden notes the 10th birthday of Tcl, and the 8th anniversary of comp.lang.tcl this week (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=423118867])
   * Yet another reason that Tcl is an excellent tool for building collaboration software is provided by Mark Lawson, who released the TkHiNote extension for accessing Lotus Notes databases (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=422979997])
   * Tom Poindexter releases his Sockspy program for watching TCP conversations, very useful for debugging code using sockets (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=423745445])
   * The tkAbout program is a front end to common Unix commands http://home.earthlink.net/~tarozax/