From mds at ecn.purdue.edu Thu Dec 13 07:55:44 2001 From: mds at ecn.purdue.edu (Mark Senn) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:06:03 2004 Subject: Perl.com Newsletter: A Drag-and-Drop Primer for Perl/Tk Message-ID: <200112131355.fBDDtkx21082@resolute.ecn.purdue.edu> FYI. Excuse me if you get multiple copies of this: I'm sending this to Purdue Perl Mongers. Note this is information how to donate $ to Damian Conway's and Dan Suganski's work below. Has Perl saved you time or given you pleasure: I encourage you to donate---I already have. I couldn't get http://donate.perl-foundation.org to work. http://donate.perl-foundation.org/index.pl?node=Contribution+Info worked ok. Mark ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: perl-return-44-mds=purdue.edu@paprika.oreillynet.com Delivery-Date: Wed Dec 12 23:09:29 2001 Received: from herald.cc.purdue.edu (herald.cc.purdue.edu [128.210.11.29]) by resolute.ecn.purdue.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBD49Tx10543 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:09:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from paprika.oreillynet.com ([208.201.239.10]) by herald.cc.purdue.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4/herald) with SMTP id fBD49Rj14415 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:09:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 31282 invoked by alias); 13 Dec 2001 01:00:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact perl-help@paprika.oreillynet.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: From: "Perl.com Newsletter" Delivered-To: mailing list perl@paprika.oreillynet.com Delivered-To: moderator for perl@paprika.oreillynet.com Received: (qmail 27484 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2001 00:32:52 -0000 To: "Perl Newsletter" Subject: Perl.com Newsletter: A Drag-and-Drop Primer for Perl/Tk Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:33:51 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 6722 Perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers =========================================================== Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust FREE E-COMMERCE SECURITY GUIDE Is your e-business built on a strong, secure foundation? Find out with VeriSign's FREE White Paper, "Building an E-Commerce Trust Infrastructure." Learn how to authenticate your site to customers, secure your web servers with 128-Bit SSL encryption, and accept secure payments online. Click here: http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?a=n203963060045000 =========================================================== Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world and on our own site. * Perl at large. Some very important news this week! The Perl Foundation has announced its fundraising drive for next year. Through donations from various generous companies and individuals, we managed to sponsor Damian Conway to work on Perl for the whole of this year, and this time around we're looking to sponsor both Damian and Dan Sugalski, the internals designer for Perl 6. "The Foundation is beginning drives for two Perl Development Grants, for Dan Sugalski and Damian Conway, totalling $175,000 ($60,000 each for stipend, $20,000 each for travel, and $15,000 for adminstrative overhead)." Take this to your boss, your boss's boss, your bank manager, and anyone else who you think will possibly give money to advance the Perl cause. If you don't see why this is a good thing, check out what Damian's been up to. http://www.perl-foundation.org/index.cgi?page=pr#pr-drive http://yetanother.org/damian/ Oh, and talking of Damian, if you want *more* information about what he's up to, there's an excellent interview with him on pair.com's "Insider" newsletter: http://www.pair.com/pair/current/insider/1201/damianconway.html As promised, Parrot 0.0.3 was released on Sunday, with the official announcement going out to the world yesterday. This release is particularly significant because it's the first one to have custom, pluggable data types. Now you can create, for instance, Perl strings, and have them magically numify to Perl number types on demand. Enjoy. http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg06916.html * What's new on perl.com More bioinformatics stuff! If you've ever used CGI.pm, GD, or read Network Programming with Perl, you'll have heard of Lincoln Stein. But what you might not have known about him is that he's a bioinformaticist on the Human Genome Project, and has made some interesting advancements in Perl's utility for bioinformatics. We're highlighting an O'Reilly Network interview with Lincoln, where he talks about what he's been doing with Perl and genomics: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/07/stein.html Bryan Warnock is back, with another Perl 6 summary. He covers the 0.0.3 release, the newly-established Parrot FAQ, questions about the use of the GCC register transfer language, and much, much more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011208.html Steven Lidie, author of the forthcoming "Mastering Perl/Tk" provides an inside look into one of the things he'd not managed to get into the book - programming drag-and-drop services in Perl/Tk. This week's article explains how to create an application which can drag and drop objects from one Tk widget onto another. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/11/perltk.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/ Enjoy, SC ============================================================== Sponsored by Macromedia FREE TRIAL: DEVELOP AND DEPLOY J2EE COMPATIBLE APPLICATIONS QUICKLY! Macromedia JRun 3.1 - with speed, ease-of-use, scalability, and high performance - empowers you to build powerful J2EE compatible Java applications with Java Servlets, JSP, and EJBs. 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Lincoln will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/07/stein.html *** XML and Modern CGI Applications Kip Hampton explores a modern CGI module, CGI::XMLApplication, which uses XML and XSLT to separate logic and presentation cleanly. http://xml.com/pub/a/12/12/2001/cgi-xml.html *** This Week on Perl 6 (2 - 8 December 2001) Parrot 0.0.3, a FAQ, the execution environment and more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/p6pdigest/20011208.html *** An Introduction to Testing chromatic explains why writing tests is good for your code, and tells you how to go about it. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/04/testing.html ========================================================== O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference January 28-31, 2002, Tucson, AZ Hear from Lincoln D. 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