24 nov 2018

(ccxii) 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 DBD::Oracle 1.76 24 Oracle database driver for the DBI module
2 FFI::Platypus 0.58 36 Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
3 Git::Repository 1.323 23 Perl interface to Git repositories
4 Imager 1.007 59 Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
5 JSON::XS 4.0 102 JSON serialising/deserialising, done correctly and fast
6 Module::CoreList 5.20181120 30 what modules shipped with versions of perl
7 Mojolicious 8.07 387 Real-time web framework
8 Perl::Build 1.28 15 perl builder
9 Perl::Tidy 20181120 103 indent and reformat perl scripts
10 Raisin 0.79 35 A REST API microframework for Perl.

(cccxliv) metacpan weekly report - Perl::Tidy

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 56
Week's winner: Perl::Tidy (+3)
Build date: 2018/11/24 10:31:21 GMT

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(ccclxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-11-24 10:13:20 GMT

  1. Is this a good alternative to Moose Perl? - [3/2]
  2. readline hangs on manual pipe() - [3/1]
  3. Remove everything between specified characters including multi lines - [2/4]
  4. How to use Email::Mime with sendmail - [2/2]
  5. How to delete leases from dhcpd.conf? - [1/5]
  6. How to verify self-signed certificate? - [1/2]
  7. Perl CGI picture-of-the-day script not behaving as expected after migration to new server - [1/2]
  8. Can I condense my export routine in my Perl package? - [1/2]
  9. How to ignore all after domain zone except symbol "/" - [1/2]
  10. Linux - Perl: Printing the content of the script I am executing - [1/1]

18 nov 2018

(ccxi) 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 0.207000 100 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
2 DBD::mysql 4.049 46 A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
3 File::Slurp 9999.25 63 Simple and Efficient Reading/Writing/Modifying of Complete Files
4 JSON::Validator 2.18 20 Validate data against a JSON schema
5 Math::Prime::Util 0.73 14 Utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring
6 Mojo::mysql 1.08 28 Mojolicious and Async MySQL
7 Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI 2.04 28 OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
8 Net::DNS 1.19 17 Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
9 Pegex 0.70 19 Acmeist PEG Parser Framework
10 Perl::Tidy 20181119 101 indent and reformat perl scripts
11 PerlPowerTools 1.013 17 BSD utilities written in pure Perl
12 Raisin 0.78 35 A REST API microframework for Perl.
13 RPerl 4.002000 26 Restricted Perl, The Optimizing Perl 5 Compiler
14 WWW::Mechanize 1.90 79 Handy web browsing in a Perl object

(cccxliii) metacpan weekly report - local::lib

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 54
Week's winner: local::lib (+2)
Build date: 2018/11/18 08:05:00 GMT

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(ccclxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-11-18 07:48:57 GMT

  1. How to save in-memory sqlite database to a file in perl? - [3/1]
  2. How do I add new lines to a Perl script using PPI? - [3/1]
  3. Is there a less tedious way to use Perl chomp? - [2/3]
  4. Does SQLite perform disk-activity when calling SELECT statements with AutoCommit turned off in perl? - [2/3]
  5. Should I migrate from CGI::Fast to something else in light of CGI.pm's deprecated status and how should I do so? - [2/3]
  6. Split Regex, return only characters, digits and underscores. Perl - [2/2]
  7. Am I generating the OAuth signature incorrectly or is there another issue with this Perl / OAuth client code? - [2/2]
  8. Create Google Team Drive with Perl module LWP::Authen::OAuth2 - [2/1]
  9. Custom Storable hooks for dclone-ing a light-weight object referencing a heavy-weight object - [2/1]
  10. Apache Perl CGI script sso trouble and environment variables - [2/0]

10 nov 2018

(ccx) 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::Build 1.49 12 Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
2 Data::Dumper 2.173 80 stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
3 JSON::Validator 2.15 20 Validate data against a JSON schema
4 Math::Prime::Util 0.72 14 Utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring
5 Mojolicious 8.06 387 Real-time web framework
6 Object::Tiny 1.09 15 Class building as simple as it gets
7 Test::Class::Moose 0.95 15 Serious testing for serious Perl
8 XML::Compile 1.61 14 Compilation based XML processing

(cccxlii) metacpan weekly report - LLVM

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 57
Week's winners (+3): LLVM 
Build date: 2018/11/10 17:28:42 GMT

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(ccclxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-11-10 17:24:19 GMT

  1. How does Perl's length() function counts unicode characters? - [4/1]
  2. perl: where to find deep knowledge on a read-only variable created by *VAR = \0 - [3/1]
  3. How to insert a literal '&' using setAttribute() - [2/1]
  4. Compute the width of a string in monspaced font - [2/1]
  5. How to print last directory inside every parent directory - [1/4]
  6. perl Encode::Guess with and without hints - detecting utf8 - [1/2]
  7. perl fork() how to check if child crashed - [1/2]
  8. Perl sort hash, how to sort by $hash{$key}->{secondkey} - [1/2]
  9. Watch for changes of a Moose attribute - [1/2]
  10. perl - fixing mixed utf8 and latin encoding: use open IO vs. binmode - [1/1]

3 nov 2018

(ccix) 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 5.90122 138 The Catalyst Framework Runtime
2 Cpanel::JSON::XS 4.07 24 cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
3 CryptX 0.062 37 Crypto toolkit
4 DBD::CSV 0.54 20 DBI driver for CSV files
5 DBD::ODBC 1.60 12 ODBC DBD for Perl DBI
6 DBI 1.642 226 Database independent interface for Perl
7 File::Slurp 9999.24 63 Simple and Efficient Reading/Writing/Modifying of Complete Files
8 Mojolicious 8.05 386 Real-time web framework
9 OrePAN2 0.47 12 Yet another DarkPAN manager.
10 WWW::Mechanize::Firefox 0.80 20 use Firefox as if it were WWW::Mechanize
11 YAML 1.27 58 YAML Ain't Markup Language™
12 YAML::LibYAML 0.75 39 Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml

(cccxli) metacpan weekly report - Future

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 117
Week's winners (+3): Future
Build date: 2018/11/03 16:05:09 GMT

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(ccclxv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-11-03 16:00:15 GMT

  1. Calling an external C function (in a shared lib) from Perl with Inline/C does not work - [4/1]
  2. replace in-place using perl changed soft link/symlink to static file - [3/4]
  3. Perl: non blocking pipe - only getting one message - [3/3]
  4. Serverless execution of a perl script? - [3/3]
  5. perl assign reference to subroutine - [3/2]
  6. How to create interrupt after x seconds in Perl? - [2/2]
  7. Convert multi-line into one and extract columns from it - [1/3]
  8. Using threads on DNA sequence analysis with Perl - [1/1]
  9. What does this error mean: "import is not exported by the exporter module"? - [1/1]
  10. perl tcl Tclkit link to specific installation - [1/1]