Tcl/Tk 8.5
I have just removed the compatibility code for Tcl/Tk 8.4 in cvs, and Coccinella therefore now requires Tcl/Tk 8.5. Since 8.5 was released already in December last year I thought that five months...
View ArticleThe Blessings of Synchronized Releases
People believe the idea of synchronized jumping to releases originates from Mark Shuttleworth.People are wrong! Credit: Xanboozled, License: by-nc-sa Back in 2006, the Eclipse Foundation pioneered...
View ArticleSynchronized Releases in Practice
After reading The Blessings of Synchronized Releases, you probably wonder how we practically organize synchronized releases at the Coccinella project. In this article I will give you some insight into...
View ArticleSVG Graphics
Just released is my tkpath package version 0.3.0 which for the first time brings a new canvas widget to Tcl/Tk which conforms to a more "modern" 2D drawing model found in SVG. My motiviation for...
View ArticleTcl/Tk - Recent Advances
Credit: freebird4, License: by-nc There has been a lot of news in the Tcl/Tk community the last month or so, and I thought it's time to compile them here since Coccinella is written in Tcl. Tcl's...
View ArticleTranslate Coccinella 0.96.10
Do you want to translate the upcoming Coccinella 0.96.10, planned for September 24th? Do you want to update any of the existing translations? Or do you just want to see which languages are ranking...
View ArticleJabber is Confusing
Credit: nutmeg66, License: by-nc-nd 'Jabber' is confusing, not only for Aunt Tilly, but even for geeks: Cisco announced today that it has acquired Jabber, an open-source IM and presence protocol used...
View ArticleSynchronized Releases and Greg Kroah-Hartman
Credit: TiggerT, License: by-nc-nd O'Reilly interviewed Greg Kroah-Hartman (log), the Linux kernel developer who founded the Linux Driver Project. The interview explains how the Linux Driver Project...
View ArticleMats Bengtsson 1959 - 2008
Mats Bengtsson, the founder of Coccinella, passed away on November 29, 2008. He was born in 1959 and had a very successful career in academics and specifically in his field of interest, theoretical...
View ArticleTutorial: Facebook IM, Mail.ru IM, MySpace IM and Sametime support in 4 commits
A complete developer tutorial to add support for Facebook IM, Mail.ru IM, MySpace IM and Sametime to your instant messaging project: First, commit Mail.ru IM icons. Second, commit Facebook icons. Then,...
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