# where we turn Perl inside out: mayo 2016

28 may 2016

(lxxxii) 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::Nopaste	1.006	23	Easy access to any pastebin
2	App::cpanminus	1.7042	210	get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
3	Capture::Tiny	0.40	65	Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs
4	Carton	v1.0.28	68	Perl module dependency manager (aka Bundler for Perl)
5	DBIx::Class::Helpers	2.032002	35	Simplify the common case stuff for DBIx::Class.
6	DateTime	1.28	154	A date and time object for Perl
7	Dist::Zilla	6.005	145	distribution builder; installer not included!
8	Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git	2.039	35	update your git repository after release
9	ExtUtils::MakeMaker	7.18	33	Create a module Makefile
10	HTTP::BrowserDetect	3.14	21	Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
11	MCE	1.707	43	Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
12	Mojo::Pg	2.27	41	Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
13	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.13	33	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
14	Moose	2.1802	250	A postmodern object system for Perl 5
15	Net::DNS	1.06	12	Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
16	Net::SSH2	0.60	16	Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libssh2.
17	Path::Tiny	0.094	105	File path utility
18	Pod::Usage	1.69	26	Pod::Usage extracts POD documentation and shows usage information
19	Regexp::Common	2016052802	34	Provide commonly requested regular expressions
20	Search::Elasticsearch	2.03	22	The official client for Elasticsearch
21	Statocles	0.076	13	A static site generator
22	Swagger2	0.79	19	Swagger RESTful API Documentation
23	WWW::Mechanize::Firefox	0.79	19	use Firefox as if it were WWW::Mechanize
24	cpan::outdated	0.31	25	detect outdated CPAN modules in your environment.

(ccxiv) metacpan weekly report - FFI::Platypus

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 91
Week's winners (+3): FFI::Platypus
Build date: 2016/05/28 06:11:28 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Archive::SevenZip - Read/write 7z , zip , ISO9960 and other archives
BioX::Map - map read to genome with bwa and soap
CGI::FileManager - Managing a directory structure on an HTTP server
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ReportPhase - Log every role use in every phase executed.
Hash::DefaultValue - create a hash where the default value ain't undef
IO::TieCombine - produce tied (and other) separate but combined variables
Mojolicious::Plugin::RenderCGI - Rendering template with Perl code and CGI.pm funcs/subs for tags emits.
NativeCall - Perl 5 interface to foreign functions in Perl code without XS
Panda::Config::Perl - Convenient and flexible config loader in perl format.
Safe::Isa::XS -
Sub::StrictDecl - detect undeclared subroutines in compilation

Increasing its reputation:

App::Cmd (+1=25)
App::cpm (+2=7)
App::githook::perltidy (+1=2)
B::Lint (+1=3)
BioPerl (+1=15)
Capture::Tiny (+1=65)
Catmandu (+1=9)
Class::Tiny (+1=19)
Compress::LZ4Frame (+1=2)
Contenticious (+1=6)
Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA (+2=3)
Dancer2 (+1=73)
Data::Printer (+2=102)
DateTimeX::Format::Ago (+1=6)
DBD::mysql (+1=37)
DBD::Pg (+1=54)
DBIx::Class (+1=232)
Devel::hdb (+1=42)
Devel::NYTProf (+1=132)
Evo (+1=3)
Expect (+1=16)
FFI::Platypus (+3=19)
FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust (+1=3)
FFI::TinyCC (+1=10)
Gearman (+1=6)
Gearman::XS (+1=3)
GRID::Machine (+1=5)
Hash::Flatten (+1=5)
Hash::Merge (+1=16)
Hijk (+1=11)
HTML::Packer (+1=4)
JavaScript::Packer (+1=2)
JSON::Validator (+1=7)
Math::BigNum (+1=2)
Mesos (+1=2)
Minilla (+1=25)
Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteFork (+1=7)
Mojo::Pg (+1=41)
Mojolicious (+1=306)
Mojolicious::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=5)
MooX::TypeTiny (+1=2)
Mouse (+2=41)
Object::Iterate (+1=3)
Object::Simple (+1=4)
OpenGL (+1=7)
Org::Parser (+1=5)
Panda::Date (+1=4)
Panda::XS (+1=4)
PDL (+1=27)
perl (+1=279)
Perl::Critic (+1=75)
Perl::Tidy (+1=84)
Pod::Weaver (+1=27)
PPI (+2=37)
Prima (+2=17)
RDF::Query (+1=3)
Redis::JobQueue (+1=6)
Ref::Util (+1=8)
Scope::Upper (+1=9)
Session::Token (+1=12)
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (+1=20)
Test::Harness (+1=44)
Test::Simple (+1=128)
Text::ASCIITable (+1=14)
Time::Piece::ISO (+1=2)
Type::Tiny (+1=84)
Ubic (+1=48)
UR (+1=4)
Web::Query (+1=25)
Win32 (+1=9)
Win32::UTCFileTime (+1=2)
Wx (+1=17)

(ccxxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-05-28 06:07:15 GMT

I would like explanation of the bahviour of Perl's regular expression engine - [7/3]
Conditional parameter passing with MooseX::Params::Validate - [4/2]
Cannot get hash passed as reference in a module - [4/2]
using unix commands like grep and sed for the perl array - [3/2]
perl: Text::Fuzzy, different string giving same edit distance? - [3/2]
Double hash values in Perl - [3/1]
Understanding perl use structures - [3/1]
500 Error on LWP::UserAgent part 2 - [3/1]
How can I get Chrome on Android to check SSL errors again with Appium? - [3/0]
How to create recursive hash of hash ? (With unlimited deep) - [2/5]

21 may 2016

(lxxxi) 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::Nopaste	1.005	23	Easy access to any pastebin
2	Git::Repository	1.319	20	Perl interface to Git repositories
3	Minion	5.08	38	Job queue
4	Module::CoreList	5.20160520	25	what modules shipped with versions of perl
5	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.13	33	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
6	MongoDB	v1.4.1	63	Official MongoDB Driver for Perl
7	PAR::Packer	1.033	24	PAR Packager
8	Swagger2	0.78	19	Swagger RESTful API Documentation
9	Test::Simple	1.302019	127	Basic utilities for writing tests.
10	namespace::clean	0.27	18	Keep imports and functions out of your namespace

(ccxiii) metacpan weekly report - Test::Needs

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 80
Week's winner: Test::Needs (+3)
Build date: 2016/05/21 06:53:13 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Archive::SevenZip - Read/write 7z , zip , ISO9960 and other archives
Attribute::Types - Attributes that confer type on variables
Data::STUID - Yet Another Unique ID Generator
Fl - Bindings for the Stable 1.3.x Branch of the Fast Light Toolkit
Mojolicious::Plugin::RenderCGI - Rendering template with Perl code and CGI.pm subs imports.
OpenStack::Client - A nice and tiny OpenStack API client
QMail::QueueHandler - Module to manage QMail message queues
Spreadsheet::Reader::Format - Formatting for various spreadsheet readers
Stash::REST - Add Requests into stash. Then, Extends with Class::Trigger!
Task::Kensho::Async - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Async Programming
Task::Kensho::CLI - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Useful Command-line Tools
Task::Kensho::Dates - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Date Modules
Task::Kensho::DBDev - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Database Development
Task::Kensho::Email - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Email
Task::Kensho::ExcelCSV - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Excel/CSV
Task::Kensho::Hackery - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Script Hackery
Task::Kensho::Scalability - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Scalability
Task::Kensho::WebCrawling - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Web Crawling
Task::Kensho::WebDev - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Web Development
Task::Kensho::XML - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: XML Development
Test2::AsyncSubtest - Object representing an async subtest.
Test2::Tools::EventDumper - Tool for dumping Test2::Event structures.
WebService::Site24x7 - An api client for https://site24x7.com
XML::DOM::XPath - Perl extension to add XPath support to XML::DOM, using XML::XPath engine

Increasing its reputation:

ActiveRecord::Simple (+1=8)
App::cpanminus (+1=210)
App::FatPacker::Simple (+1=3)
Attribute::Handlers (+1=6)
Capture::Tiny (+1=64)
Carton (+1=68)
carton (+1=35)
Catalyst::Runtime (+1=127)
Catalyst::View::JSON::PerRequest (+1=2)
Class::Date (+1=6)
common::sense (+1=11)
Data::Show (+1=7)
DateTime (+1=154)
DBIx::Class (+1=231)
Devel::Cycle (+1=12)
Devel::NYTProf (+1=131)
Devel::REPL (+1=49)
FFI::Raw (+1=26)
File::ReadBackwards (+1=6)
Font::TTF (+1=2)
Future (+1=30)
Getopt::Long (+1=75)
Inline::C (+1=18)
Inline::Python (+1=3)
IO::Async (+1=28)
IRC::Utils (+1=7)
JE (+1=16)
Mojo::IRC (+1=10)
Mojo::Redis2 (+1=9)
Moo (+1=206)
perl (+1=278)
Pithub (+1=18)
Scalar::List::Utils (+1=119)
SQL::Abstract (+1=53)
String::Util (+1=8)
Task::Catalyst (+1=9)
Task::Kensho (+1=65)
Task::Kensho::Config (+1=2)
Task::Kensho::Exceptions (+1=2)
Task::Kensho::Logging (+1=2)
Task::Kensho::ModuleDev (+1=2)
Task::Kensho::OOP (+1=2)
Task::Kensho::Testing (+1=2)
Task::Kensho::Toolchain (+1=2)
Template::Toolkit (+1=101)
Term::ReadLine (+1=7)
Term::ReadLine::Gnu (+1=16)
Term::UI (+1=5)
Test::Needs (+3=3)
Test::Simple (+1=127)
Try::Tiny (+1=134)
XML::XPath (+1=3)
XML::XPathEngine (+1=4)
ZMQ::FFI (+1=11)

(ccxxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-05-21 06:50:36 GMT

Data structure for unique element storage - [6/2]
Why does "last" behave differently in Perl in these examples? - [4/1]
Send mail through Gmail using Perl - [3/3]
Select the 1st element only - with condition using XML::Twig - [3/3]
Handling ctrl + c in perl when script ran using setsid - [3/2]
Perl web application issue: DBI connect failed: Can't create TCP/IP socket (10106) - [3/1]
Perl warnings, strict & diagnostic errors are not output when using utf8 - [3/1]
Counting number of character occurrences per line - [2/5]
Split number and percent sign for comparison - [2/5]
How to get the max value from an array in Perl? - [2/5]

15 may 2016

(lxxx) 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::cpanminus	1.7041	209	get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
2	Carton	v1.0.24	67	Perl module dependency manager (aka Bundler for Perl)
3	CryptX	0.034	18	Crypto toolkit
4	DBD::CSV	0.49	14	DBI driver for CSV files
5	DateTime	1.27	153	A date and time object for Perl
6	DateTime::Format::Strptime	1.68	16	Parse and format strp and strf time patterns
7	Dist::Milla	v1.0.16	21	Distribution builder, Opinionated but Unobtrusive
8	Excel::Writer::XLSX	0.90	30	Create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
9	HTTP::BrowserDetect	3.13	21	Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
10	List::AllUtils	0.10	25	Combines List::Util and List::SomeUtils in one bite-sized package
11	Module::CoreList	5.20160507	25	what modules shipped with versions of perl
12	Mojolicious	6.62	305	Real-time web framework
13	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.09	33	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
14	MongoDB	v1.4.0	63	Official MongoDB Driver for Perl
15	MooseX::Getopt	0.70	18	A Moose role for processing command line options
16	Params::Validate	1.24	26	Validate method/function parameters
17	Task::Kensho	0.39	64	A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl
18	Test::Class::Moose	0.71	12	Serious testing for serious Perl
19	Test::Simple	1.302015	126	Basic utilities for writing tests.
20	Tickit	0.56	14	Terminal Interface Construction KIT
21	perl	5.024000	278	The Perl 5 language interpreter

(ccxii) metacpan weekly report - Devel::Trace

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 73
Week's winner: Devel::Trace (+3)
Build date: 2016/05/15 10:01:48 GMT

Clicked for first time:

App::Antigen - Plugin Manager for Zsh
Bio::DB::HTS - Perl interface to HTS library for DNA sequencing
CPAN::Mirror::Tiny - create partial CPAN mirror (a.k.a. DarkPAN)
Email::MIME::RFC2047 - Correct handling of non-ASCII MIME headers
Keyword::Boolean - The real boolean keywords
Mojolicious::Che - ÐœÐ¾Ð¹ Ð±Ð°Ð·Ð¾Ð²Ñ‹Ð¹ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÑƒÐ»ÑŒ Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Mojolicious. ÐÑƒÐ¶ÐµÐ½ Ñ‚Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÐºÐ¾ Ñ€Ð°Ð·Ð²ÐµÑ€Ð½ÑƒÑ‚Ñ‹Ð¹ ÐºÐ¾Ð½Ñ„Ð¸Ð³.
Mojolicious::Plugin::TimeAgo - DateTime TimeAgo Mojolicious Plugin
Spreadsheet::Reader::ExcelXML - Read xlsx/xlsm/xml extention Excel files
Spreadsheet::Reader::Format - Formatting for various spreadsheet readers
String::CamelSnakeKebab - word case conversion
Template::Liquid - A Simple, Stateless Template System
Test::Mojo::Role::SubmitForm - Test::Mojo role that allows to submit forms
Tie::Hash::LRU - LRU hashes for Perl (XS implementation)

Increasing its reputation:

ActiveRecord::Simple (+1=8)
Authen::Simple (+1=2)
autodie (+1=52)
boolean (+1=8)
Carton (+1=67)
Compress::Snappy (+1=8)
Config::General (+1=22)
constant (+1=9)
Crypt::PBKDF2 (+1=6)
Dancer2 (+1=72)
Date::Calc (+1=16)
DateTime (+1=153)
DateTimeX::Format::Excel (+1=2)
DBIx::Class (+1=230)
Devel::NYTProf (+1=130)
Devel::Trace (+3=14)
Dist::Zilla (+1=145)
Exception::Class::TryCatch (+1=3)
Imager (+1=53)
IPC::Run3 (+1=15)
JE (+1=15)
Keyword::Simple (+1=6)
Kossy (+1=5)
List::SomeUtils (+1=4)
Mail::IMAPClient (+1=5)
Math::Algebra::Symbols (+1=3)
Minion (+2=38)
Mo (+1=29)
Module::Metadata (+1=10)
Mojo::IRC (+1=9)
Mojo::Phantom (+1=5)
Mojo::Redis2 (+1=9)
Mojo::SlackRTM (+1=2)
Mojo::SQLite (+1=9)
Mojolicious (+1=305)
Moops (+1=42)
Moose (+1=250)
Net::HTTP (+1=3)
Path::Tiny (+1=105)
perl (+2=278)
Ref::Util (+1=8)
RPerl (+1=15)
Search::Elasticsearch (+1=22)
String::Util (+1=8)
System::Info (+1=2)
Test::Class (+1=15)
Test::Exception (+2=29)
Test::Simple (+1=126)
Text::Xslate (+1=52)
Time::Moment (+1=56)
TinyDNS::Reader (+1=2)
Valence (+1=2)
WWW::Telegram::BotAPI (+1=3)
XML::Compile::SOAP (+1=10)
XXX (+1=8)

(ccxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-05-15 09:58:35 GMT

Why should I specify a use statement when using the say function? - [10/2]
Explain Perl code to display a number of bytes in KB, MB, GB etc - [6/5]
Why websocket connections breaks - [5/1]
Recursive sorting in Perl - [4/4]
XML::Simple in perl, with mixed xml file - [4/2]
Case-insensitive hash-keys in Regexp::Grammars - [3/2]
Perl's 'readdir' Function Result Order? - [3/2]
Pass string and temporary array into sub in 1 line? - [3/2]
Refactor perl sub for testability - [3/1]
What happens as a perl script ends? - [3/1]

6 may 2016

(lxxix) 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	Code::TidyAll	0.47	25	Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
2	CryptX	0.032	18	Crypto toolkit
3	Email::Stuffer	0.014	17	A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails
4	Gazelle	0.43	18	a Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
5	HTTP::BrowserDetect	3.12	21	Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string
6	HTTP::Tiny	0.058	76	A small, simple, correct HTTP/1.1 client
7	List::MoreUtils	0.415	97	Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
8	Log::Dispatch	2.56	34	Dispatches messages to one or more outputs
9	Module::CoreList	5.20160429	25	what modules shipped with versions of perl
10	Mojolicious	6.61	305	Real-time web framework
11	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.07	33	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
12	Moose	2.1801	250	A postmodern object system for Perl 5
13	Path::Tiny	0.090	105	File path utility
14	Paws	0.25	12	A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs

(ccxi) metacpan weekly report - Test::Simple

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 72
Week's winners (+3): Test::Simple
Build date: 2016/05/06 19:05:37 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Async::Selector - level-triggered resource observer like select(2)
Config::Processor - Cascading configuration files processor with additional features
Dancer::Plugin::RPC - Placeholder for the Version-number
Minion::Notifier - Notify listeners when a Minion task has completed
Mojolicious::Plugin::BModel - Catalyst-like models in Mojolicious
MySQL::mycrud - nothing but the mysql methods for myself
Net::Launchpad - Launchpad.net Authentication
Net::SSH2::Cisco - interact with a Cisco router via SSH
System::Info - Basic information about the system
Tree::Family - Represent and visualize a family tree.
WebService::Pinterest - Pinterest API client

Increasing its reputation:

ActiveRecord::Simple (+1=7)
Alien::TinyCC (+1=4)
App::cpanminus::reporter (+1=28)
App::GitGot (+1=17)
Capture::Tiny (+2=63)
Carmel (+1=8)
Catalyst::Runtime (+1=126)
Code::TidyAll (+1=25)
DateTime::Format::Flexible (+1=10)
DateTime::Format::Natural (+1=8)
Devel::Cover (+1=74)
Exception::Class (+1=19)
FFI::Platypus (+1=16)
FFI::Raw (+1=25)
FFI::TinyCC (+1=9)
File::Slurper (+1=26)
Gedcom (+1=2)
LeftPad (+1=16)
libwww::perl (+1=122)
List::Compare (+1=10)
local::lib (+1=66)
Locale::CLDR (+1=4)
Log::Log4perl (+1=54)
Mercury (+1=2)
Minion (+1=37)
Modern::Perl (+1=35)
Mojo::Phantom (+2=4)
Mojolicious (+1=305)
Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack (+1=33)
Moose (+1=250)
Moose::Autobox (+1=6)
MooseX::FollowPBP (+1=3)
Outthentic (+1=2)
Params::Validate (+1=26)
Parse::Yapp (+1=3)
Path::Tiny (+1=105)
PDF::Create (+1=6)
perl (+1=278)
perl5i (+1=26)
Perl::Dist::Strawberry (+1=8)
Promises (+1=26)
Protocol::ACME (+1=3)
Regexp::Assemble (+1=23)
Role::Tiny (+1=35)
Sparrow (+1=3)
Statistics::R (+1=9)
Swagger2 (+1=19)
Test::Class (+1=14)
Test::Class::Moose (+1=12)
Test::Deep (+1=34)
Test::Kit (+1=8)
Test::Mojo::WithRoles (+1=5)
Test::Simple (+3=127)
Text::Markdown::Discount (+1=7)
Time::Fake (+1=3)
Win32::Console::ANSI (+1=5)
XML::Generator (+1=4)

(ccxxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-05-06 19:03:03 GMT