25 jun 2016

(lxxxvi) 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::perlbrew 0.76 139 App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
2 CPAN 2.14 26 query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
3 Coro 6.5 40 the only real threads in perl
4 DBIx::Class 0.082840 235 Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
5 Dancer2 0.200002 74 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
6 MCE 1.800 44 Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
7 Module::CoreList 5.20160620 25 what modules shipped with versions of perl
8 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.15 33 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
9 Moo 2.002003 209 Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
10 MooseX::Getopt 0.71 18 A Moose role for processing command line options
11 MooseX::Storage 0.52 17 A serialization framework for Moose classes
12 Swagger2 0.82 19 Swagger RESTful API Documentation
13 Test::Simple 1.302033 130 Basic utilities for writing tests.
14 Time::HiRes 1.9737 44 High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers
15 WWW::YouTube::Download 0.59 14 Very simple YouTube video download interface
16 Web::Machine 0.17 24 A Perl port of Webmachine
17 XML::LibXML 2.0126 69 Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library

(ccxviii) metacpan weekly report - MongoDB

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 88
Week's winner: MongoDB (+7)
Build date: 2016/06/25 10:04:13 GMT

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(ccxliii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-06-25 09:59:26 GMT

  1. How do I set a workbook-wide default format with Excel::Writer::XLSX? - [5/1]
  2. I received in my server a message that could be from a hacker - [4/1]
  3. Perl: Handling arrays and array references - [4/1]
  4. Regular Expression : Change syntax from perl to others with grep command - [3/3]
  5. Replace underscores with hyphens in Perl Catalyst URLs - [3/2]
  6. Insert JPEG image in PDF using perl PDF::Create - [3/1]
  7. Replacing Quote-and-Multiple-Comma Delimiters in Perl - [3/1]
  8. Access a hash from debugger code without breaking the program's "each" iterator - [2/3]
  9. Efficient way of comparing two files and removing partial match - [2/3]
  10. Separating an Output with a Tab / Space : Perl - [2/3]

18 jun 2016

(lxxxv) 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 Alien::Base 0.029 13 A base class for Alien:: modules
2 CGI 4.31 27 Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
3 Code::TidyAll 0.48 25 Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
4 Cpanel::JSON::XS 3.0217 15 cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
5 CryptX 0.037 19 Crypto toolkit
6 DBIx::Class 0.08271 234 Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
7 Dancer2 0.200001 73 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
8 Data::MessagePack 0.50 12 MessagePack serializing/deserializing
9 Excel::Writer::XLSX 0.95 30 Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
10 Gazelle 0.45 18 a Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
11 Getopt::Long v2.49.1 76 Module to handle parsing command line options
12 Git::Repository 1.320 20 Perl interface to Git repositories
13 Image::ExifTool 10.20 21 Read and write meta information
14 Mojo::Pg 2.28 42 Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
15 Mojolicious 6.66 310 Real-time web framework
16 MongoDB v1.4.2 64 Official MongoDB Driver for Perl
17 Pegex 0.61 14 Acmeist PEG Parser Framework
18 RPerl 1.7501 15 Restricted Perl, The Optimizing Perl 5 Compiler
19 RapidApp 1.2000 21 Turnkey ajaxy webapps
20 Spreadsheet::Read 0.66 17 Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
21 Term::ReadLine::Gnu 1.34 16 Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library

(ccxvii) metacpan weekly report - Data::Alias

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 76
Week's winner (+3): Data::Alias
Build date: 2016/06/18 20:55:03 GMT

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(ccxlii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-06-18 20:53:30 GMT

  1. Perl: Calculate number of days by converting to seconds - [5/3]
  2. Elastic Search: use filter and should bool query - [5/2]
  3. Perl: Copy file from one location to another - [5/1]
  4. Perl only executes part of shell command and emits warning &'redundant argument in printf&' in command substitution - [4/1]
  5. Strawberry Perl not recognising special variable for OSNAME - [4/1]
  6. Prepend to Very Large File in Fixed Time or Very Fast - [3/2]
  7. Hadoop streaming with mongo-hadoop connector fails - [3/1]
  8. Accessing JSON decoded into a HASH and an array of hash references - [2/3]
  9. Why won't AnyEvent::child callbacks ever run if interval timer events are always ready? - [2/2]
  10. Why is perl saving two copies of Excel spreadsheet? - [2/2]

11 jun 2016

(lxxxiv) 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 CGI 4.30 27 Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
2 Catalyst::Runtime 5.90105 127 The Catalyst Framework Runtime
3 Cpanel::JSON::XS 3.0215 14 cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
4 CryptX 0.036 19 Crypto toolkit
5 DateTime::TimeZone 2.00 14 Time zone object base class and factory
6 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::ReportPrereqs 0.025 12 Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
7 Excel::Writer::XLSX 0.94 30 Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
8 Expect 1.33 16 automate interactions with command line programs that expose a text terminal interface.
9 Function::Parameters 1.0705 29 subroutine definitions with parameter lists
10 Gazelle 0.44 18 a Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
11 Getopt::Long 2.49 76 Module to handle parsing command line options
12 Mojolicious 6.64 309 Real-time web framework
13 MooseX::Types::Path::Class 0.09 12 A Path::Class type library for Moose
14 Net::OpenSSH 0.73 21 Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
15 Net::SFTP::Foreign 1.86 15 Secure File Transfer Protocol client
16 Net::SSH2 0.62 16 Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
17 PDF::API2 2.028 12 Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
18 RPerl 1.75 15 Restricted Perl, The Optimizing Perl 5 Compiler
19 Regexp::Common 2016060801 34 Provide commonly requested regular expressions
20 SOAP::Lite 1.20 16 Perl's Web Services Toolkit
21 Starlet 0.30 14 a simple, high-performance PSGI/Plack HTTP server
22 Swagger2 0.81 19 Swagger RESTful API Documentation
23 Term::ReadLine::Gnu 1.33 16 Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
24 Test::Simple 1.302026 129 Basic utilities for writing tests.
25 perl5i v2.13.2 26 Fix as much of Perl 5 as possible in one pragma

(ccxvi) metacpan weekly report - IO::Async

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 104
Week's winner: IO::Async (+3)
Build date: 2016/06/11 18:38:49 GMT

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(ccxli) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-06-11 18:36:44 GMT

  1. Assigning to a slice of a 3D array using the range operator - [4/2]
  2. Why does this workaround for magic Perl internal variable work? - [4/1]
  3. Atom editor and embedded perl: syntax highlighting - [4/1]
  4. How to log out when using Net::SFTP - [4/1]
  5. warning using Parallel::ForkManager but only in Windows - [4/0]
  6. Best practice naming convention in Perl for subroutine with output arguments - [3/3]
  7. Perl argument modification without references - [3/3]
  8. Why is this regex slow? - [3/2]
  9. Getting all Unicode aliases for a codepoint - [3/1]
  10. My Perl warnings are FATAL and I don't know why - [3/1]

4 jun 2016

(lxxxiii) 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 Capture::Tiny 0.42 65 Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs
2 Cpanel::JSON::XS 3.0214 14 cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
3 CryptX 0.035 18 Crypto toolkit
4 Dancer2 0.200000 73 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
5 Excel::Writer::XLSX 0.92 30 Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
6 MCE 1.708 43 Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
7 MetaCPAN::Client 1.015000 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
8 Minilla v3.0.2 26 CPAN module authoring tool
9 Mojolicious 6.63 308 Real-time web framework
10 Moose 2.1804 251 A postmodern object system for Perl 5
11 Net::SSH2 0.61 16 Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
12 PDL 2.016 27 Perl Data Language
13 Paws 0.26 12 A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
14 Prima 1.47 17 a perl graphic toolkit
15 Regexp::Common 2016060201 34 Provide commonly requested regular expressions
16 Reply 0.39 46 read, eval, print, loop, yay!
17 Statocles 0.076 14 A static site generator
18 System::Command 1.118 13 Object for running system commands
19 Test::Simple 1.302022 128 Basic utilities for writing tests.
20 Web::Query 0.35 25 Yet another scraping library like jQuery
21 XML::LibXML 2.0125 69 Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
22 version 0.9917 15 Structured version objects

(ccxv) metacpan weekly report - DateTime

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 86
Week's winners (+4): DateTime 
Build date: 2016/06/04 13:36:54 GMT

Clicked for first time:
  • AnyEvent::FCGI - non-blocking FastCGI server
  • App::ruler - Print horizontal ruler on the terminal
  • Archive::SevenZip - Read/write 7z , zip , ISO9960 and other archives
  • Astro - Astronomical coordinate transformations
  • Crypt::XXTEA_PP - Pure Perl Implementation of Corrected Block Tiny Encryption Algorithm
  • fp - a library for programming in a functional style
  • MBclient - Add modbus TCP or RTU functions for your program.
  • Mojo::Pua - HTTP Client + Evo::Promises
  • Perl::Tokenizer - A tiny Perl code tokenizer
  • textrender - Turn stdin into rendered text graphics.
  • Win32::SerialPort - User interface to Win32 Serial API calls

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(ccxl) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-06-04 12:21:21 GMT

  1. What is the preferred convention for Perl Inheritance - [9/3]
  2. Why do XS subs use const char *? - [7/1]
  3. Perl6: Capturing Windows newline in a string with regex - [6/3]
  4. How to delete entire column in Excel sheet and write updated data in new excel file using Perl? - [5/1]
  5. Whats the difference between ($test) = (@test); and $test = @test; in Perl? - [4/1]
  6. Feeding a Python array into a Perl script - [4/1]
  7. Perl user input for unix command - [4/1]
  8. Perl Net::SSH2 pubkey authentication issue - [4/0]
  9. Perl using a variable to reference a module messes up passing parameters - [3/5]
  10. Perl Anyevent , non blocking redis push - [3/2]