I like to write the weekly {Tcl,Python,...}-URL! digests. It's recreational, for me.
I write [L1 ] also for more conventional publications. I've written chapters on Tcl [L2 ] and other scripting languages for several books, and do a column [L3 ] twice a month on scripting.
Along with this part-time journalism, I'm a full-time software developer [L4 ].
One of my characteristic habits is to threaten over an extended period to work on various community projects. Occasionally, with enough motivation, I actually follow through. On the possibility that one of these will interest someone, I'll list a few of the half-baked items currently on the shelves:
- Lots of tcllib stuff--documentation, performance enhancements, examples, corrections to RFC non-conformance, ... Andreas Kupries: If you have time please add such information to the tcllib tracker at SourceForge [L5 ]. Or feed them piecemeal through me.
- Memory introspection commands
- Win-Tcl documentation
- Greatly sanitized tcltest distributions
- More Tcl/Java write-ups
- Testing theory
- Help with TinyTcl
- Elaboration of George Peter Staplin's Tk-Xlib work (which I greatly admire)
- Propaganda on why Tk is wonderful
- ...
- More explanations of the "resources database"
- Write-ups of "Tcl in the real world"
- Tclish expert systems
- response to Larry Virden's observation that "this is part of the info that I keep harping about being needed for USERS of Tcl... most of the Tcl doc is written for application developers accustomed to code diving". package-ing is a particular example.
- Tclkit evangelism
- ...