Perl.com Newsletter: A Drag-and-Drop Primer for Perl/Tk
Mark Senn
mds at ecn.purdue.edu
Thu Dec 13 07:55:44 CST 2001
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
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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.
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
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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
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A Drag-and-Drop Primer for Perl/Tk
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XML and Modern CGI Applications
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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
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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
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