25 may 2019

(ccxxxviii) 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 1.74 14 Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
2 Catmandu 1.2001 16 a data toolkit
3 Code::TidyAll 0.74 31 Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
4 Devel::StackTrace 2.04 24 An object representing a stack trace
5 Git::Raw 0.83 25 Perl bindings to the Git linkable library (libgit2)
6 Module::CoreList 5.20190524 31 what modules shipped with versions of perl
7 Mojolicious 8.17 397 Real-time web framework
8 PAR 1.016 14 Perl Archive Toolkit
9 Perl::Critic 1.134 98 Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
10 Pod::Simple 3.36 13 framework for parsing Pod
11 SPVM 0.0434 14 Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast calculation & Easy C/C++ Binding
12 Starman 0.4015 97 High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
13 XML::LibXML 2.0201 84 Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library

(ccclxx) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 45
Week's winner: perl (+3)
Build date: 2019/05/25 21:00:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:
  • App::PMUtils - Command-line utilities related to Perl modules
  • DBI::Test - Test suite for DBI API
  • File::CodeSearch - Search file contents in code repositories
  • Math::LOESS - Perl wrapper of the Locally-Weighted Regression package originally written by Cleveland, et al.
  • Perinci::CmdLine - Rinci/Riap-based command-line application framework

Increasing its reputation:

(cccxciv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2019-05-25 20:49:51 GMT

  1. Unix/Perl/Python: substitute list on big data set - [6/4]
  2. The difference between " and ' in Perl - [4/4]
  3. How to get unicode code points in perl v5.24? - [4/2]
  4. How to assign promise returned from get_p to a variable? - [4/1]
  5. How to disable caching in Mojolicious::Lite app - [4/0]
  6. How can I avoid warnings when checking element in array for numeric equivalency to zero even though some elements are character strings? - [3/2]
  7. Getting indices of matching parentheses - [3/2]
  8. How to properly load Javascript files in Mojolicious perl? - [3/1]
  9. Perl internal variables. Are next expressions same? - [2/2]
  10. Perl S3 Multipart Upload using Net::Amazon::S3 - [2/1]

19 may 2019

(ccxxxvii) 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 Minion 9.10 69 Job queue
2 MooseX::App 1.41 16 Write user-friendly command line apps with even less suffering
3 PPI 1.269 45 Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
4 Promises 1.00 36 An implementation of Promises in Perl
5 Test2::Suite 0.000122 23 Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
6 XML::Compile 1.62 14 Compilation based XML processing
7 YAML::LibYAML 0.78 39 Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
8 Yancy 1.026 21 A simple framework and editor for content-driven Mojolicious websites

(ccclxix) metacpan weekly report - Lock::File

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 54
Week's winners (+3): Lock::File 
Build date: 2019/05/19 12:44:28 GMT

Clicked for first time:
  • Attempt - attempt to run code multiple times
  • CPU::Emulator::Z80 - a Z80 emulator
  • CPU::Z80::Assembler - a Z80 assembler
  • Crypt::Image -
  • csvgrep - search for patterns in a CSV and display results in a table
  • DNS::Unbound - A Perl interface to NLNetLabs’s Unbound recursive DNS resolver
  • FASTX::Abi - Read Sanger trace file (chromatograms) in FASTQ format. For traces called with hetero option, the ambiguities will be split into two sequences to allow usage from NGS tools that usually do not understand IUPAC ambiguities.
  • Geo::WeatherNWS - A simple way to get current weather data from the NWS.

Increasing its reputation:

(cccxciii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2019-05-19 10:50:00 GMT

  1. How do I get yesterday's date in perl? - [4/6]
  2. How to get last modified time of file a file in perl in the format returned from diff command? - [4/2]
  3. Perl Regexp::Common package not matching certain real numbers when used with word boundary - [3/2]
  4. Exclude a directory from Perl module release using Dist::Zilla - [3/1]
  5. RegEx for substituting only to the left of LaTeX comments - [2/4]
  6. Parse default Salt highstate output - [2/3]
  7. Find difference between two perl nested hashes - [2/2]
  8. Local testing of Perl repository using Travis CI (with docker) - [2/1]
  9. Qt/C++ hash of hashes - [1/3]
  10. How to change a pattern like XX1/XXSomething/XX1/Something to XXSomething/XX1/Something in perl - [1/3]

12 may 2019

(ccxxxvi) 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 B::C 1.57 17 Perl compiler
2 Data::Page 2.03 15 help when paging through sets of results
3 DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler 0.002231 18 Extensible DBIx::Class deployment
4 Inline::C 0.81 25 C Language Support for Inline
5 JSON::Validator 3.11 21 Validate data against a JSON schema
6 libwww::perl 6.39 144 The World-Wide Web library for Perl
7 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 2.08 46 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
8 Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI 2.14 31 OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
9 Net::SSLeay 1.88 16 Perl extension for using OpenSSL
10 SPVM 0.0433 14 Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast calculation & Easy C/C++ Binding
11 Test2::Suite 0.000121 23 Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
12 Text::CSV 2.00 62 comma-separated values manipulator (using XS or PurePerl)
13 YAML 1.29 58 YAML Ain't Markup Language™
14 Yancy 1.025 21 A simple framework and editor for content-driven Mojolicious websites

11 may 2019

(ccclxviii) metacpan weekly report - FASTX::Reader

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 71
Week's winner: FASTX::Reader (+3)
Build date: 2019/05/11 21:02:07 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

(cccxcii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2019-05-11 20:59:27 GMT

  1. Post-increment and variable re-use in a single statement, Perl 5 vs Perl 6 - [9/2]
  2. Coverage report for Perl modules by cpancover.com - [3/2]
  3. Why am I getting a permission denied when su'ing to a user? - [3/2]
  4. Perl array : Pattern matches then move to the another array - [2/4]
  5. In an array of hashes, how to remove a value that is already present in another key? - [2/1]
  6. Saving a Word document as UTF-8 encoded HTML - [2/0]
  7. How to split array values into to new separate arrays in Perl? - [1/6]
  8. perl or awk: zero proof division with perl or awk - [1/3]
  9. What does perl -pe "s|$PASSWORD|<PASSWORD>|g"? - [1/3]
  10. RegEx for matching words preceding commas, with exceptions - [1/2]

4 may 2019

(ccxxxv) 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 1.69 13 Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
2 CGI 4.43 36 Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
3 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.36 43 Create a module Makefile
4 Future 0.40 45 represent an operation awaiting completion
5 Future::AsyncAwait 0.26 14 deferred subroutine syntax for futures
6 Getopt::Long::Descriptive 0.104 42 Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
7 Gtk3 0.035 15 Perl interface to the 3.x series of the gtk+ toolkit
8 Inline 0.83 29 Write Perl Subroutines in Other Programming Languages
9 Mail::Box 3.007 13 complete E-mail handling suite
10 PAR::Packer 1.048 33 PAR Packager
11 perlsecret 1.015 39 Perl secret operators and constants
12 PPI 1.264 45 Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
13 SPVM 0.0432 14 Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast calculation & Easy C/C++ Binding
14 Template::Toolkit 2.29 121 comprehensive template processing system
15 Test::Simple 1.302164 160 Basic utilities for writing tests.
16 YAML 1.28 58 YAML Ain't Markup Language™

(ccclxvii) metacpan weekly report - perlsecret

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 34
Week's winners (+3): perlsecret 
Build date: 2019/05/04 19:54:04 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

(cccxci) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2019-05-04 19:41:57 GMT

  1. Perl overload @{} so that you can supply an object to foreach() - [7/3]
  2. perl - matching at even positions and remove non-printable chars - [3/4]
  3. What is the easiest way to test error handling when writing to a file in Perl? - [3/2]
  4. Moose: builder requires a value that sometimes is not set (non deterministic) - [3/1]
  5. Remove certain characters from a regex group - [2/4]
  6. Replace pattern by its length (portable solution for Bash) - [2/3]
  7. Best practices of using constant in perl - [2/1]
  8. How to have Dist::zilla specifying min Perl version in YAML? - [2/1]
  9. Perl: parent method using a variable defined in a child class - [1/3]
  10. Sort dates using DateTime->compare() - [1/2]