19'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2012)

November 12 - November 16, 2012

Rooms:
Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza
350 West Mart Center Drive
Chicago, IL 60654
Tel: +1 312 361-0648
Fax: +1 312 222-9508

Sessions:
National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago
175 W. Washington
Chicago, IL 60602

Transport:
@ Conference Wiki Page

Tutorials

• Intro to Tcl 1 ,
  Clif Flynt
• TclOO & CoRoutines (advanced) ,
  Sean Woods

Lunch Break

• Lunch
  Provided

Tutorials

• Intro To Tcl 2 ,
  Clif Flynt
• Web Services in Tcl ,
  Gerald Lester

Free Tutorial

• Working with Wibble ,
  Andy Goth

Social and BOFs

• Hospitality Suite
  TCA

Tutorials

• Intro to Tk 1 ,
  Gerald Lester
• SQL & TDBC ,
  Clif Flynt

Lunch Break

• Lunch
  Provided

Tutorials

• Advanced Tk: GUI Design ,
  Jeff Hobbs

Certification Exam

• Basic Level Certification Exam ,
  Tcl Community Association

Social and BOFs

• Hospitality Suite
  

Welcome and Keynote

• Welcome and Announcements
  Host
• F5 Rules
  Colin Walker
  How and Why F5 uses Tcl

Break

• Break
  

Session 1

• Bringing Context To the Internet of Things
  Emmanuel Frecon
  Tcl's use in a Home Automation context
• Wtk for APWTCL
  Arnulf Wiedemann
  Web Tk for the successor to "Itcl in Javascript"
• Wibble
  Andy Goth
  History, Design, and Philosophy of the Wibble Web Server

Lunch Break

• Conference Luncheon
  TCA

Session 2

• Toward RESTful Desktop Applications
  Will Duquette
  How REST concepts and technology have been used in the Athena simulation to present a vast sea of heterogeneous data to the user.
• TBD
  Panel

Hackathon, into the evening

• TBD
  Attendees

Dinner Break

• See registration or the hospitality suite for suggestions.
  On your own

Social and BOFs

• Hospitality Suite
  Mentor Graphics

Welcome and Invited Talk

• Welcome and Announcements
  Host
• The Power Behind Einstein's Brain
  Steve Landers
  Outlines the use of Tcl/Tk at the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago, including automation of image processing, database management, systems administration and exhibition management

Break

• Break
  

Session 4

• KineTcl
  Andreas Kupries
  A Tcl Binding to OpenNI/Kinect
• Lifecycle Object Generators
  Sean Woods
  Description of basic mechanisms and architecture to create objects that can readily transition from one class to another throughout the course of an application through the use of coroutines, TclOO and other basic data structures, in the context of problems from GUI design to Artificial Intelligence
• Tcl Patterns for Iteration
  Phil Brooks
  Tcl Patterns for Iteration over large datasets

Lunch Break

• Lots within walking distance.
  On your own

Session 5

• Pulling Out All the Stops - Part II Tcl Threads
  Phil Brooks
  Design and implementation considerations for high performance Tcl threading
• TyCL Update
  Andres Buss
  An update on the state of TyCL presented at last year's conference, highlighting the similarities and differences between them, alongside the new features now provided
• Brush: A New Tcl-like Language
  Andy Goth
  Discussion of the motivation, design, and semantics of a new programming language similar in structure to Tcl which embeds several functional programming concepts which are currently awkward or difficult to realize in Tcl

Break

• Break
  

Session 6

• editable - A Generic Display and Edit Widget for Database Applications
  Clif Flynt
  Presentation of a widget set using Tcl's ability to extract a schema from a database to generate "useable" entry screens with no additional programmatic input
• Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
  Ron Wold
  User Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts

WIPs

• Short discussions of an interesting project. Sign up at registration
  Work in Progress

Banquet

• Conference Banquet
  

Social and BOFs

• Hospitality Suite
  

Welcome and Invited Talk

• Welcome and Announcements
  Host
• The (Active) State of Tcl
  Jeff Hobbs

Break

• Break
  

Session 7

• TyCL/GK: An extension to create GUI applications with TyCL
  Andres Buss
  TyCL/GK: An extension to create GUI applications with TyCL
• Guided debugging with various widgets of Tcl/Tk GUI
  Roshni Lalwani, Amarpal Singh
  A novel method for helping users debug design issues in EDA tools via enhanced TCL/TK widgets
• An Efficient Method for Rendering Design Schematics Using Tcl/Tk, and Distributed Relational Databases
  Manu Goel, Antara Ghosh, Sachin Kakkar
  An Efficient Method for Rendering Design Schematics Using Tcl/Tk, and Distributed Relational Databases

Break

• Break
  

Tcl Community Association

• What's going on with Tcl Community Association
  Town Hall

Free Event (for Conference Attendees)

• Concert I at NMHMC
  Camerata Chicago