(cxvii) 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::FatPacker	0.010007	35	pack your dependencies onto your script file
2	Dancer2	0.204004	82	Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
3	DateTime::Format::Strptime	1.72	16	Parse and format strp and strf time patterns
4	IO::Socket::SSL	2.044	26	Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
5	Mojolicious	7.22	332	Real-time web framework
6	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.39	35	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
7	PDF::API2	2.031	13	Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
8	Variable::Magic	0.61	18	Associate user-defined magic to variables from Perl.
9	YAML::Tiny	1.70	22	Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible

(ccxlix) metacpan weekly report - Data::Validate::IP

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 24
Week's winner: Data::Validate::IP (+2)
Build date: 2017/01/27 20:33:10 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Bit::Manip - Functions to simplify bit string manipulation
• Devel::Valgrind::Client - Make valgrind memcheck client requests
• Test::RunValgrind - tests that an external program is valgrind-clean.
• WWW::Namecheap::API - Perl interface to the Namecheap API

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::NaiveBayes (+1=5)
• App::ModuleBuildTiny (+1=6)
• Config::Crontab (+1=3)
• Data::Validate::IP (+2=6)
• Device::I2C (+1=2)
• Module::CPANfile (+1=38)
• Mojo::SQLite (+1=11)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::CORS (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RemoteAddr (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RequestBase (+1=6)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Util::RandomString (+1=2)
• Path::Router (+1=8)
• Sereal::Path (+1=4)
• Session::Token (+1=14)
• Term::ProgressBar (+1=16)
• Test::RequiresInternet (+1=20)
• Test::Valgrind (+1=2)
• Try::Tiny::Retry (+1=21)
• WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS (+1=8)

(cclxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-01-27 20:23:50 GMT

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1. How the values are printed in the foreach statement? - [5/3]
2. Iterating through a Perl array from an AJAX request - [4/1]
3. Why does the -e file existence test always return false for a filename containing non-ASCII characters? - [3/1]
4. Perl: installing with Perlbrew on Macos Sierra - [3/1]
5. How can I split a comma-separated string, ignoring commas inside double quotes and parentheses? - [3/1]
6. Shortest Perl solution for outputing 4 random words - [2/6]
7. Perl Adding String in Middle of another String - [2/2]
8. What happens if you don&'t put 1; at the end of a package? - [2/2]
9. Processing CSV file without double quotes - [2/2]
10. Mojolicious in Apache mod_perl - [2/1]

(cxvi) 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::cpm	0.298	15	a fast CPAN module installer
2	Image::ExifTool	10.40	21	Read and write meta information
3	Modern::Perl	1.20170117	37	enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
4	Module::CoreList	5.20170120	25	what modules shipped with versions of perl
5	Mojolicious	7.20	332	Real-time web framework
6	Mouse	v2.4.7	43	Moose minus the antlers
7	Path::Tiny	0.100	113	File path utility
8	Pegex	0.63	15	Acmeist PEG Parser Framework
9	Ref::Util	0.113	13	Utility functions for checking references
10	Statocles	0.082	15	A static site generator
11	Swagger2	0.89	23	Swagger RESTful API Documentation
12	Test::Routine	0.024	14	composable units of assertion
13	Text::Xslate	3.4.0	53	Scalable template engine for Perl5
14	libwww::perl	6.16	126	The World-Wide Web library for Perl

(ccxlviii) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 31
This week there isn't any remarkable distribution
Build date: 2017/01/20 18:02:30 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::yajg - yet another json grep
• Catmandu::MARC - Catmandu modules for working with MARC data
• WiringPi::API - Direct access to Raspberry Pi's wiringPi API, with optional Perl OO access

Increasing its reputation:

• ack (+1=100)
• AI::Categorizer (+1=4)
• Algorithm::Combinatorics (+1=16)
• Contextual::Return (+1=3)
• Continuity (+1=6)
• DateTime (+1=166)
• DBIx::Class::DeleteAction (+1=2)
• DBIx::Class::FilterColumn::ByType (+1=6)
• Furl (+1=35)
• Getopt::Long (+1=80)
• Getopt::Long::Complete (+1=6)
• HTTP::Tinyish (+1=5)
• IP::Random (+1=2)
• ipip (+1=0)
• JSON (+1=73)
• List::UtilsBy (+1=23)
• Modern::Perl (+1=39)
• Module::CPANfile (+1=37)
• Module::Spy (+1=5)
• Mojo::Weixin (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RenderFile (+1=13)
• NativeCall (+1=6)
• Number::Phone (+1=8)
• Search::Elasticsearch (+1=25)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=6)
• Test::MockObject (+1=20)
• Text::ParseWords (+1=5)
• Web::Simple (+1=21)

(cclxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-01-20 17:58:37 GMT

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1. How can I detect how many capture groups are in a Perl Regexp? - [5/1]
2. Remove one-character words - [3/8]
3. Why does POSIX in conjunction with Win32 throw a warning with floor()? - [3/1]
4. Don't care symbol in Perl - [2/4]
5. Extract first word after specific word - [2/4]
6. "undefined reference" error after adding function to a C project - [2/2]
7. How to catch a dot in Perl regex? - [2/2]
8. Mojolicious template cache is stale - [2/2]
9. Perl: Signal handler: Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference - [2/2]
10. reading a key from keyboard while the process is running - [2/2]

(cxv) 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	Email::Simple	2.213	14	simple parsing of RFC2822 message format and headers
2	Git::Raw	0.72	18	Perl bindings to the Git linkable library (libgit2)
3	Image::ExifTool	10.39	21	Read and write meta information
4	Minilla	v3.0.9	30	CPAN module authoring tool
5	Mojo::Pg	2.35	43	Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
6	Mojolicious	7.18	332	Real-time web framework
7	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.37	35	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
8	MongoDB	v1.6.1	74	Official MongoDB Driver for Perl
9	PerlPowerTools	1.012	13	BSD utilities written in pure Perl
10	RPerl	2.410000	16	Restricted Perl, The Optimizing Perl 5 Compiler
11	Test::Simple	1.302075	138	Basic utilities for writing tests.
12	Try::Tiny	0.28	137	Minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@

(ccxlvii) metacpan weekly report - LeftPad

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 40
Week's winner: LeftPad (+2)
Build date: 2017/01/13 19:25:07 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• anticaptcha - The Perl implementation for anti-captcha.com API
• JSON::Typist - replace mushy strings and numbers with rigidly typed replacements
• Mongol - Perl MongoDB wrapper for Moose objects
• Pod::Section - select specified section from Module's POD
• Telegram::BotKit - Set of Perl classes for creation of interactive and dynamic Telegram bots. Now bots can only process text, but work in progress :)
• Test::SSH - Perl extension for testing SSH modules.
• Text::T9 - Text in 9 keys (T9) input.
• WWW::Kickstarter - Retrieve information from Kickstarter

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Dapper (+1=3)
• App::PRT (+1=6)
• Cache::Memcached::Fast (+1=13)
• Class::Accessor::Grouped (+1=3)
• Data::Money (+1=6)
• DBIx::Class (+1=244)
• Devel::Cover (+1=81)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckChangesHasContent (+1=7)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::Contributors (+1=8)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PerlTidy (+1=8)
• Encode (+1=42)
• File::Temp (+1=46)
• Image::ExifTool (+1=23)
• IO::Async (+1=35)
• IO::Async::SSL (+1=2)
• JSON::Validator (+1=11)
• JSV (+1=5)
• LeftPad (+2=19)
• Mojo::ACME (+1=6)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::ServerSession (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::WWWSession (+1=2)
• Pod::POM::Web (+1=6)
• Pod::Simple (+1=11)
• RDF::NS (+1=3)
• SQL::Translator (+1=28)
• Sub::Install (+1=16)
• Test2::Suite (+1=6)
• Test::Simple (+1=139)
• URI (+1=80)
• URI::UTF8::Punycode (+1=2)
• XML::Compile::WSDL11 (+1=3)

(cclxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-01-13 19:19:38 GMT

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1. How can I remove characters that are not supported by MySQL's utf8 character set? - [5/1]
2. How to organize private methods on Perl objects? - [4/4]
3. Log all unexpected errors using Log::Log4perl - [4/1]
4. embedded perl in C, perlapio - interoperability with STDIO - [4/0]
5. Installing Perl modules to a specific location - [3/2]
6. 'ne' is not working in do-while loop, whereas '!=' works - [3/1]
7. GNU parallel not spawning jobs - [3/1]
8. Alphabetical order with special characters perl - [2/4]
9. insert text after specified lines in a file - [2/4]
10. Perl CGI produces unexpected output - [2/3]

(cxiv) 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::cpm	0.297	15	a fast CPAN module installer
2	Exception::Class	1.42	19	A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl
3	IO::Socket::SSL	2.043	26	Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
4	Minilla	v3.0.8	30	CPAN module authoring tool
5	Minion	6.02	42	Job queue
6	Mojo::Pg	2.34	43	Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
7	Mojolicious	7.14	332	Real-time web framework
8	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.31	35	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
9	Mouse	v2.4.6	43	Moose minus the antlers
10	Net::SSLeay	1.80	14	Perl extension for using OpenSSL
11	Paws	0.30	20	A Perl SDK for AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs
12	Prima	1.50	18	a perl graphic toolkit
13	RPerl	2.401	16	Restricted Perl, The Optimizing Perl 5 Compiler
14	Raisin	0.71	24	a REST API micro framework for Perl.
15	Test::Deep	1.126	37	Extremely flexible deep comparison

(ccxlvi) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI & Parallel::Fork::BossWorkerAsync

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 44
Week's winners (+2): Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI & Parallel::Fork::BossWorkerAsync target="_blank"
Build date: 2017/01/06 21:47:05 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::SwaggerUI - Render OpenAPI spec documentation with Swagger-UI
• App::UnANSI - Remove ANSI coloring from output or files
• CGI::Emulate::PSGI - PSGI adapter for CGI
• Chart::Bokeh - Generate html/javascript charts from perl data using javascript library BokehJS
• Crypt::Perl - Cryptography in Pure Perl
• DBD::SQLcipher - Self-contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver
• Email::Reply - reply to an email message
• Log::File::Rolling - Log to date/time-stamped files
• Mojolicious::Plugin::TagHelpers::Pagination - Pagination Helper for Mojolicious
• Test::Mojo::Role::Selenium - Test::Mojo in a real browser

Increasing its reputation:

• App::cpm (+1=17)
• C::Blocks (+1=2)
• CatalystX::LeakChecker (+1=5)
• Child (+1=4)
• Data::ParseBinary (+1=4)
• Date::Holidays::RU (+1=2)
• Devel::REPL (+1=50)
• JIRA::REST (+1=7)
• JSON::Validator (+1=10)
• LeftPad (+1=17)
• Log::Any (+1=42)
• Log::Dispatch::DesktopNotification (+1=2)
• Memoize (+1=18)
• Menlo (+1=7)
• Module::Info (+1=5)
• Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall (+1=12)
• Mojolicious (+1=333)
• Mojolicious::Command::nopaste (+1=7)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Leafletjs (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 (+1=9)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+2=12)
• Parallel::Fork::BossWorkerAsync (+2=4)
• Path::Router (+1=7)
• perl5i (+1=28)
• PerlX::Maybe (+1=21)
• Pinto (+1=53)
• Protocol::WebSocket (+1=6)
• Syntax::Feature::Try (+1=6)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=5)
• Test::mysqld (+1=9)
• Text::LTSV (+1=3)
• XML::Simple (+1=30)

(cclxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-01-06 21:42:27 GMT

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1. How can I smoke out undefined subroutines? - [13/2]
2. Are elements of @_ reused for new subroutine call or new @_ is created? - [8/2]
3. How to get the stored procedure result using perl? - [5/3]
4. Clear content in xml brackets in all files in directory tree on Windows using Strawberry Perl and twig - [5/2]
5. How to call subroutine in perl using variable name - [5/2]
6. Why are waitVariable calls not independent even if different variable ref is used? - [5/2]
7. How do I make DBIx::Class ignore case in ORDER BY with SQLite? - [4/1]
8. How to find route name for given path in Mojolicious? - [4/1]
9. Perl modules hierarchy and composition - [4/1]
10. find the greatest number among 3 - [3/4]

10 best perl distributions created at 2016 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2016:

1. LeftPad (+17)
2. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+12)
3. Importer (+8)
4. Test::Needs (+7)
5. MCE::Shared (+6)
6. SQL::Functional (+6)
7. App::opan (+5)
8. LINE::Bot::API (+5)
9. List::SomeUtils (+5)
10. Mojo::ACME (+5)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2016

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2016

1. Mojolicious (+64)
2. perl (+31)
3. Dancer2 (+30)
4. DBIx::Class (+28)
5. Path::Tiny (+26)
6. Moose (+24)
7. MongoDB (+19)
8. Moo (+18)
9. Test::Simple (+18)
10. DateTime (+17)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2016 group by month

• 2016-01

Path::Tiny (+8)
Dancer2 (+5)

• 2016-02

Function::Parameters (+7)
Data::Printer (+4)

• 2016-03

Mojolicious (+10)
Dancer2 (+5)

• 2016-04

LeftPad (+15)
Mojolicious (+6)

• 2016-05

perl (+6)
FFI::Platypus (+5)

• 2016-06

MongoDB (+12)
Mojolicious (+9)

• 2016-07

Mojolicious (+6)
Path::Tiny (+4)

• 2016-08

Mojolicious (+10)
Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+6)

• 2016-09

Moose (+4)
App::cpm (+3)

• 2016-10

Mojolicious (+6)
perl (+4)

• 2016-11

MCE (+4)
Text::MultiMarkdown (+4)

• 2016-12

Geo::Coder::Google (+3)
PDL::IO::XLSX (+3)

20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2016

These are the 20 most rated questions at 2016 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2017/01/01 08:37:15 GMT

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1. Why is `\s+` so much faster than `\s\s*` in this Perl regex? - [54/4]
2. Undocumented Perl variable %_? - [20/3]
3. Why are @@, @!, @, etc. not interpolated in strings? - [20/3]
4. What is the difference between `read` and `sysread`? - [16/1]
5. Chronological trace of function calls in C++ using etrace - [15/1]
6. Why does Perl's print fail to output anything to STDOUT and STDERR, but writes to a file successfully? - [14/4]
7. Close response under mod_perl 2 - [14/1]
8. Why does map() mask the 'undefined value' error? - [14/1]
9. How can I pick a random value between 0 and a bigint? - [13/3]
10. Why doesn't Perl v5.22 find all the sentence boundaries? - [13/2]
11. What is the preferred convention for Perl Inheritance - [12/3]
12. Why should I specify a use statement when using the say function? - [12/2]
13. How do I stop CPAN from accessing an unresponsive package repository? - [12/2]
14. Is the value returned by system() the same as "$?"? - [14/1]
15. Why should use warnings; go last? - [13/1]
16. How to connect to MySQL using UTF8 within a perl script? - [13/1]
17. Lowercasing script in Python vs Perl - [11/7]
18. Is there a less clumsy alternative for copying up to "n" array elements? - [11/5]
19. Does Data::Printer handle array slices? - [11/2]
20. Why is Perl inconsistent with sprintf rounding? - [11/2]