30 jul 2016

(xci) CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

# CPAN module Version Votes Abstract
1 App::Sqitch 0.9995 31 Sane database change management
2 Catalyst::Runtime 5.90112 127 The Catalyst Framework Runtime
3 Config::General 2.63 21 Generic Config Module
4 DBIx::Lite 0.27 15 Chained and minimal ORM
5 Digest::SHA 5.96 16 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
6 IPC::Cmd 0.96 14 A cross platform way of running (interactive) commandline programs.
7 MCE 1.804 44 Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
8 MetaCPAN::Client 1.021000 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
9 Minilla v3.0.3 30 CPAN module authoring tool
10 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.18 34 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
11 MongoDB v1.4.4 74 Official MongoDB Driver for Perl
12 Paws 0.27 14 A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
13 Pinto 0.12 50 Curate a repository of Perl modules
14 Test::Simple 1.302049 132 Basic utilities for writing tests.

(ccxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Minilla

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 51
Week's winners (+3): Minilla
Build date: 2016/07/30 11:24:36 GMT

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(ccxlviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2016-07-30 11:22:06 GMT

  1. Why should use warnings; go last? - [10/1]
  2. How does this Perl code work? - [7/1]
  3. How do I set up my Dockerfile to use cpanm to install a specific version of a Perl module? - [5/3]
  4. Perl resume a thread - [5/2]
  5. How to remove the literal string "\n" (not newlines) from a variable in bash? - [4/3]
  6. perl socket: increment port if in use - [4/2]
  7. MATLAB Out of Memory when using perl() - [4/1]
  8. In hashes key duplicated join the Value into the previous keys in perl script - [4/1]
  9. Why am I getting 0E0 for the return value of the DBI "execute" method? - [4/1]
  10. Removing ": " from JSON-like data - [3/3]

24 jul 2016

(xc) CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

# CPAN module Version Votes Abstract
1 App::Cmd 0.331 28 write command line apps with less suffering
2 CGI 4.32 27 Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
3 Catalyst::Runtime 5.90111 127 The Catalyst Framework Runtime
4 Code::TidyAll 0.49 25 Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
5 Dancer2 0.201000 76 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
6 DateTime::TimeZone 2.01 14 Time zone object base class and factory
7 Furl 3.09 32 Lightning-fast URL fetcher
8 HTML::FormHandler 0.40066 37 HTML forms using Moose
9 Module::CoreList 5.20160720 25 what modules shipped with versions of perl
10 Mojolicious 7.0 314 Real-time web framework
11 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.17 34 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
12 MongoDB v1.4.3 74 Official MongoDB Driver for Perl
13 PAR::Packer 1.035 25 PAR Packager
14 Raisin 0.64 22 a REST API micro framework for Perl.
15 Rex 1.4.1 47 Remote Execution
16 Test::Simple 1.302047 132 Basic utilities for writing tests.
17 XML::LibXML 2.0128 69 Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
18 libnet 3.09 16 Collection of network protocol modules

(ccxxii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 67
Week's winner: Mojolicious (+3)
Build date: 2016/07/24 15:28:01 GMT

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(ccxlvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-07-24 15:25:32 GMT

  1. Why is `\s+` so much faster than `\s\s*` in this Perl regex? - [48/4]
  2. Why does scalar sub { (@x, @y) }->() return scalar @y? - [5/1]
  3. thrift character encoding, perl to java - [5/0]
  4. Tying together Perl and PHP - [3/0]
  5. want to get first word and word starting from pattern '-' from the line - [2/5]
  6. Perl: Inserting an XML::Twig node with XML::Twig - [2/3]
  7. Why do use `\n` in CGI script while printing header? - [2/3]
  8. Perl debugger does not work with arrow keys under Perlbrew - [2/2]
  9. perl getopt::Long path to file - [2/2]
  10. Reusable, abstracted way to bind multiple lexicals all in one go - [2/1]

16 jul 2016

(lxxxix) CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

# CPAN module Version Votes Abstract
1 Dancer2 0.200003 76 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
2 Data::Dumper 2.161 74 stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
3 Getopt::Long::Descriptive 0.100 29 Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
4 IO::Socket::SSL 2.033 25 Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
5 MCE 1.803 44 Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
6 MetaCPAN::Client 1.020000 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
7 MooX::Options 4.023 21 Explicit Options eXtension for Object Class
8 Rex 1.4.1 47 Remote Execution
9 Test::Simple 1.302040 132 Basic utilities for writing tests.
10 Text::CSV_XS 1.24 62 Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
11 XML::Compile 1.53 13 Compilation based XML processing

(ccxxi) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 52
Week's winner: perl (+2)
Build date: 2016/07/16 09:49:43 GMT

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(ccxlvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2016-07-16 09:46:35 GMT

  1. What is the use of (+) bareword with shift operator? - [4/1]
  2. Perl's __DATA__ equivalent in python - [4/1]
  3. Create a VSTRING from a scalar variable without using eval - [3/1]
  4. Perl XS: Memory management - [3/1]
  5. Perl GetOpt::Long multiple arguments with optional parameter - [2/2]
  6. Perl: Dump all live data - [2/1]
  7. Is it possible to use perl/ajax to read a file line by line while the file is written by another program? - [2/1]
  8. Why does Perl's "system ('some command')" behave differently from c:\> some command? - [2/0]
  9. How to handle Net::SFTP::Foreign invalid user or password errors? - [2/0]
  10. Remove last character of previous line under condition - [1/3]

9 jul 2016

(lxxxviii) CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

# CPAN module Version Votes Abstract
1 Catalyst::Runtime 5.90106 127 The Catalyst Framework Runtime
2 Config::General 2.62 21 Generic Config Module
3 CryptX 0.038 18 Crypto toolkit
4 DBD::mysql 4.035 38 A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
5 DBIx::Class::Helpers 2.033000 35 Simplify the common case stuff for DBIx::Class.
6 Data::Dumper 2.160 74 stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
7 DateTime 1.34 161 A date and time object for Perl
8 Dist::Zilla 6.006 146 distribution builder; installer not included!
9 FFI::Platypus 0.43 21 Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
10 Gazelle 0.46 18 a Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
11 IO::Socket::SSL 2.031 25 Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
12 List::MoreUtils 0.416 97 Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
13 MCE 1.802 44 Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
14 MetaCPAN::Client 1.019000 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
15 Mo 0.40 30 Micro Objects. Mo is less.
16 Path::Tiny 0.096 109 File path utility
17 RPerl 2 16 Restricted Perl, The Optimizing Perl 5 Compiler
18 SQL::Abstract::More 1.28 15 extension of SQL::Abstract with more constructs and more flexible API
19 Test::Simple 1.302037 132 Basic utilities for writing tests.
20 Web::Query 0.38 25 Yet another scraping library like jQuery
21 YAML 1.18 48 YAML Ain't Markup Language™
22 YAML::LibYAML 0.63 33 Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml

(ccxx) metacpan weekly report - Dancer2

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 57
Week's winner (+3): Dancer2 
Build date: 2016/07/09 08:03:03 GMT

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(ccxlv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2016-07-09 08:01:06 GMT

  1. In Perl, how do I "slurp" the contents of several files into a string? - [10/3]
  2. Is there a difference between "use warnings;" and "use warnings 'all'"? - [9/2]
  3. In Perl, why do I need Exporter? - [9/1]
  4. Why does Perl's glob() function always return a file name when given a string with no globbing characters? - [8/2]
  5. Passing a quoted string to system() keeping quotes intact - [7/1]
  6. How to move the decimal point N places to the the left efficiently? - [6/2]
  7. What is the difference between cpan and cpanm? - [5/2]
  8. Import C function into Perl program - [4/2]
  9. Perl localtime, in what conditions do we need tzset? - [4/1]
  10. Perl way of execute/ignore code (like assert in C) - [3/1]

2 jul 2016

(lxxxvii) CPAN great modules released last week

This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

# CPAN module Version Votes Abstract
1 Coro 6.511 44 the only real threads in perl
2 DBIx::Lite 0.26 13 Chained and minimal ORM
3 DateTime 1.33 160 A date and time object for Perl
4 IO::Socket::SSL 2.029 25 Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
5 List::AllUtils 0.11 25 Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
6 Mango 1.29 41 Pure-Perl non-blocking I/O MongoDB driver
7 MetaCPAN::Client 1.017000 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
8 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.16 34 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
9 Moo 2.002004 210 Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
10 Parallel::ForkManager 1.19 54 A simple parallel processing fork manager
11 Reply 0.40 48 read, eval, print, loop, yay!
12 Swagger2 0.83 19 Swagger RESTful API Documentation
13 Test::Simple 1.302035 131 Basic utilities for writing tests.
14 Time::HiRes 1.9739 44 High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers
15 Web::Query 0.36 25 Yet another scraping library like jQuery

(ccxix) metacpan weekly report - Coro

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 98
Week's winners (+4): Coro 
Build date: 2016/07/02 14:58:27 GMT

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(ccxliv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2016-07-02 14:55:37 GMT

  1. How does Perl avoid shebang loops? - [6/2]
  2. Why is "keys ::" not a syntax error? - [4/2]
  3. RSA and Perl - how randomness is achieved? - [4/1]
  4. Most efficient way to count occurrences in XQuery for multiple values - [4/0]
  5. perl passing an array or a list in a function - [3/0]
  6. Iterating through CSV and creating an XML file - [2/2]
  7. How the Perl advanced sort is sorting the values by using the $a and $b values in the sort function - [2/2]
  8. Converting string to number "Argument isn't number error" - [2/2]
  9. SCP files matching pattern using Perl - [2/2]
  10. Why does my Perl sub receive the parameters of its parent? - [2/2]