[roch-pm] Perl.com: Creating Custom Widgets (fwd)

[Brian Mathis]

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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.

If you've ever seen Slashdot or use.perl.org, then you have used
a great piece of software called Slash. What you might not have
realised is that the technology which powers Slashdot is all Perl,
and it's a very flexible way to create weblog-style sites. In fact,
we think it's so good that we have a new book coming out explaining
how to use it yourself.

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runblogslash/

And speaking of Slash, one of the guys who hacks on Slash is Chris
Nandor, better known to Perl people as the MacPerl maintainer.
Chris has been a busy man, and this week he released the 3rd beta
of MacPerl 5.6.1. This is probably going to be the last beta before
the real release, so it's your last chance to beat on it for bugs!

    http://archive.develooper.com/macperl@perl.org/msg01692.html
    http://dev.macperl.org/

And finally, the ritual self-humiliation; back in November, I
attended the Little Languages conference at MIT, and wrote a
report for you all about it. This month's Dr. Dobb's Journal
contains an article on the conference, along with audio and
video feeds of the event. (Including some lunatic on the end
raving about Parrot development.)

    http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2287/ddj0202a/0202a.htm
    http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_catalog.html?item_id=1295

* What's new on perl.com

In this week's (quite brief) Perl 6 summary, Bryan updates us on
the latest state of the Parrot interpreter, plus a couple of
language questions.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/p6pdigest/20020105.html

Our Perl/Tk guru, Steven Lidie, returns this week to tell us how
to create custom widgets in Tk. While creating a custom widget
class, he takes in Photos objects, modal dialog boxes, balloon
help, and a bunch of other Tk goodies to make a very different
style of color picker widget...

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/09/perltk.html

Enjoy,
SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

Creating Custom Widgets
Steve Lidie, coauthor of Mastering Perl/Tk, brings us more wisdom
from his Tk experience - this time, explaining how to create your
own simple widget classes.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/09/perltk.html

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This Week on Perl 6 (30 December 2001 - 5 Jan 2002)
Generators, Platform Fixes, Output records, and more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/p6pdigest/20020105.html

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Beginning Bioinformatics for Perl Programmers
James Tisdall's new book is great for biochemists eager to get
into the bioinformatics world, but what about us Perl programmers?
In this article, we turn the tables, and ask what your average Perl
programmer needs to know to get into this exciting new growth area.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/02/bioinf.html

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Building a Bridge to the Active Directory with XML-RPC
Kelvin Param explains how Perl provides the glue between Microsoft's
Active Directory and non-Windows clients.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/19/xmlrpc.html

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