27 ago 2016

(xcv) 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::mysql 4.036 38 A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
2 DBIx::Class::Helpers 2.033001 36 Simplify the common case stuff for DBIx::Class.
3 DBIx::Lite 0.28 16 Chained and minimal ORM
4 Dancer2 0.203000 80 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
5 Data::MessagePack 1.00 13 MessagePack serializing/deserializing
6 IO::Socket::SSL 2.037 26 Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
7 Log::Any 1.042 38 Bringing loggers and listeners together
8 MetaCPAN::Client 1.023000 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
9 Module::CoreList 5.20160820 25 what modules shipped with versions of perl
10 MongoDB v1.4.5 74 Official MongoDB Driver for Perl
11 Object::Remote 0.004000 15 Call methods on objects in other processes or on other hosts
12 Prima 1.48 17 a perl graphic toolkit
13 Redis 1.991 37 Perl binding for Redis database
14 Reply 0.42 48 read, eval, print, loop, yay!
15 Test::Class::Moose 0.78 12 Serious testing for serious Perl
16 Ubic 1.60 48 polymorphic service manager
17 autobox 2.84 18 call methods on native types

(ccxxvii) metacpan weekly report - Paws

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 66
Week's winners (+4): Paws
Build date: 2016/08/27 07:57:18 GMT

Clicked for first time:
  • App::opan - A CPAN overlay for darkpan and pinning purposes
  • DBIx::TryAgain - If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
  • Parallel::Pipes - parallel processing using pipe(2) for communication and synchronization
  • RPi::WiringPi - Perl interface to Raspberry Pi's board, GPIO, LCDs and other various items
  • Tk::Graph - A graphical Chartmaker at Canvas (Realtime).
  • tk::zinc - TkZinc is another Canvas which proposes many new functions, some based on openGL
  • TkCarp - Redirect warnings and errors to Tk Dialogs
  • Visio - Perl extension mainpulating XML based Visio files
  • WWW::Salesforce - this class provides a simple abstraction layer between SOAP::Lite and Salesforce.com.
  • XML::LibXML::jQuery - Fast, jQuery-like DOM manipulation over XML::LibXML
  • XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint - add pleasant whitespace to a DOM tree

Increasing its reputation:

(cclii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-08-27 07:55:32 GMT

  1. How to connect to MySQL using UTF8 within a perl script? - [11/1]
  2. Why do 4 different languages give 4 different results here? - [5/2]
  3. How to wait for child process to set variable in parent process? - [4/1]
  4. Getting UTF string from perl's subprocess - [3/3]
  5. Unknown Option when using Getopt::Long Perl - [3/2]
  6. die with reference to an object that overloads bool - [3/1]
  7. Perl- What function am I looking for? Assigning multiple rules to a specified outcome - [2/3]
  8. How to GetOsVersion on Windows 10 using perl - [2/2]
  9. Histogram in Chart::Clicker - [2/2]
  10. XML::Twig parsing same name tag in same path - [2/1]

20 ago 2016

(xciv) 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 CPAN::Meta 2.150010 19 the distribution metadata for a CPAN dist
2 Dancer2 0.202000 80 Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
3 Dancer::Plugin::Database 2.13 12 easy database connections for Dancer applications
4 Devel::Confess 0.009001 22 Include stack traces on all warnings and errors
5 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.24 33 Create a module Makefile
6 Galileo 0.041 20 A simple modern CMS built on Mojolicious
7 HTTP::Tiny 0.064 77 A small, simple, correct HTTP/1.1 client
8 Log::Dispatch 2.57 36 Dispatches messages to one or more outputs
9 Module::Build 0.4220 32 Build and install Perl modules
10 Mojolicious 7.03 321 Real-time web framework
11 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.20 35 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
12 Moose 2.1805 254 A postmodern object system for Perl 5
13 Net::SSLeay 1.78 14 Perl extension for using OpenSSL
14 Path::Class 0.37 75 Cross-platform path specification manipulation
15 Reply 0.41 48 read, eval, print, loop, yay!
16 Session::Token 1.503 13 Secure, efficient, simple random session token generation
17 Sub::Name 0.19 22 (Re)name a sub
18 Test::Simple 1.302052 134 Basic utilities for writing tests.
19 Test::TCP 2.17 18 testing TCP program
20 Try::Tiny 0.27 135 minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
21 utf8::all 0.021 24 turn on Unicode - all of it

(ccxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Sub::Install

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 52
Week's winner (+2): Sub::Install
Build date: 2016/08/20 15:12:10 GMT

Clicked for first time:
  • B::DeparseTree - Like B::Deparse, but keeps tree structure indexable by OP address.
  • base - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
  • DBIx::EAV - Entity-Attribute-Value data modeling (aka 'open schema') for Perl
  • ETL::Pipeline - Extract-Transform-Load pattern for data file conversions
  • Lingua::EN::NameParse - extract the components of a person or couples full name, presented as a text string
  • Locale::SubCountry - Convert state, province, county etc. names to/from ISO 3166-2 codes, get all states in a country
  • Net::CIDR::Lite - Perl extension for merging IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR addresses
  • Time::Date - A time and date object for Perl
  • Webservice::OVH - A perl representation of the ovh-api

Increasing its reputation:

(ccli) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-08-20 15:10:51 GMT

  1. Is there a less clumsy alternative for copying up to "n" array elements? - [11/5]
  2. How can I tie an array slice to the original array so all changes that are made to one are made to both? - [6/1]
  3. How to let Perl recognize both lower and uppercase input? - [4/5]
  4. Where can I get Perl 4? - [3/2]
  5. Can grep print just the matched buffer? - [3/2]
  6. Get full error message in Perl DBI module - [3/2]
  7. Where to host Perl/POD documentation for code that is not on CPAN (but is on GitHub)? - [3/1]
  8. XS: Passing an external library's function a Perl XS callback - [3/0]
  9. perl script to copy file content which is between certain lines - [2/3]
  10. Perl hash formatting - [2/3]

13 ago 2016

(xciii) 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 Archive::Zip 1.59 27 Provide an interface to ZIP archive files.
2 Capture::Tiny 0.44 68 Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs
3 DateTime 1.36 161 A date and time object for Perl
4 Dist::Zilla 6.007 147 distribution builder; installer not included!
5 Encode 2.86 39 character encodings in Perl
6 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.22 33 Create a module Makefile
7 IO::Socket::SSL 2.036 25 Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
8 MetaCPAN::Client 1.022003 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
9 Mojo::Pg 2.29 43 Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
10 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.19 35 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
11 MooseX::Role::Parameterized 1.09 20 Moose roles with composition parameters
12 Statocles 0.077 14 A static site generator
13 Swagger2 0.85 21 Swagger RESTful API Documentation
14 Test::Class::Moose 0.76 12 Serious testing for serious Perl
15 Test::Most 0.35 33 Most commonly needed test functions and features.
16 Tickit 0.57 15 Terminal Interface Construction KIT
17 WWW::Mechanize 1.78 67 Handy web browsing in a Perl object
18 utf8::all 0.020 24 turn on Unicode - all of it

(ccxxv) metacpan weekly report - SQL::Functional

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 63
Week's winners (+4): SQL::Functional
Build date: 2016/08/13 07:00:13 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

(ccl) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-08-13 06:55:22 GMT

  1. Upgrade perl from 5.6 to 5.24 - [4/4]
  2. What is the meaning of \0 in perl? - [4/2]
  3. Include perl module from a different location - [4/2]
  4. Why function name has to be specified in use statement? - [4/2]
  5. Save multiple values of a command line option in Perl array - [4/1]
  6. Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at ~/modules/Log/Syslog/Constants.pm line 28 - [4/1]
  7. References to equal strings - [4/1]
  8. Assign values to same variable using Getopt::Long - [3/2]
  9. Perl Scripts on Windows 10 run from Explorer but not Command Prompt - [3/2]
  10. Printing Hash Pairs in Perl - [3/2]

5 ago 2016

(xcii) 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 Archive::Zip 1.58 27 Provide an interface to ZIP archive files.
2 Capture::Tiny 0.44 67 Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs
3 CryptX 0.039 18 Crypto toolkit
4 Encode 2.85 39 character encodings in Perl
5 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.20 33 Create a module Makefile
6 File::Slurper 0.009 26 A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
7 IO::Socket::IP 0.38 12 Family-neutral IP socket supporting both IPv4 and IPv6
8 MetaCPAN::Client 1.022001 14 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
9 Minilla v3.0.4 30 CPAN module authoring tool
10 Mojolicious 7.01 319 Real-time web framework
11 Net::SSLeay 1.77 14 Perl extension for using OpenSSL
12 Test::Class::Moose 0.75 12 Serious testing for serious Perl
13 Test::WWW::Mechanize 1.46 17 Testing-specific WWW::Mechanize subclass
14 libnet 3.10 16 Collection of network protocol modules

(ccxxiv) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 43
Week's winner: Mojolicious (+3)
Build date: 2016/08/05 19:32:36 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

(ccxlix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-08-05 19:29:28 GMT

  1. Perl custom syntax for suffixes or custom postfix operators - [6/3]
  2. How should I handle Perl module updates when maintaining docker images? - [5/1]
  3. How to match Unicode vowels? - [5/1]
  4. Why does [^\w] match some word characters but not [^\p{Word}]? - [4/1]
  5. Can I define a DBIx::Class::ResultSource::View after connecting? - [4/0]
  6. Under what circumstances are END blocks skipped in Perl? - [3/2]
  7. Which module should be used to decode JSON? - [3/2]
  8. Size of array generated by <>? - [3/1]
  9. Use perl WWW::Mechanize on a local file - [3/1]
  10. Perl: Why does for and foreach give me different results? - [2/2]