# where we turn Perl inside out: marzo 2017

31 mar 2017

(cxxvi) 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::Base	0.040	13	Base classes for Alien:: modules
2	Config::Any	0.30	16	Load configuration from different file formats, transparently
3	Cpanel::JSON::XS	3.0231	16	cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
4	CryptX	0.045	18	Crypto toolkit
5	Devel::Declare	0.006019	13	Adding keywords to perl, in perl
6	Function::Parameters	2.000002	35	define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
7	List::MoreUtils	0.418	97	Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
8	Log::Any	1.049	40	Bringing loggers and listeners together
9	MCE	1.822	50	Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
10	Mail::Box	3.002	12	E-mail handling
11	MetaCPAN::Client	2.009001	16	A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
12	Module::Build	0.4222	32	Build and install Perl modules
13	Moo	2.003002	215	Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
14	Net::SSLeay	1.81	14	Perl extension for using OpenSSL
15	XML::Compile	1.56	13	Compilation based XML processing

(cclviii) metacpan weekly report - App::Prun

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 92
Week's winners (+3): App::Prun
Build date: 2017/03/31 19:34:59 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Encoding::FixLatin - takes mixed encoding input and produces UTF-8 output
Etcd3 -
Gzip::RandomAccess - extract arbitrary bits of a gzip stream
Math::BaseCalc - Convert numbers between various bases
Mojolicious::Plugin::Google::Cloud::UserAgent - A user agent for GCP
Net::LDAP::Class - object-relational mapper for Net::LDAP
Progress::Any::Output::DesktopNotify - Output progress to Desktop::Notify
ProgressBar::Stack - Progress bar implementation with stack support and useful loop wrappers
Test2::Harness - Test2 based test harness.
Test2::Workflow - A test workflow is a way of structuring tests using composable units.
Wurm - Simple. Easy. Crawls in your teeth. Web framework. Did I mention it was a web framework? Another one.
XML::Feed::Aggregator - Simple feed aggregator

Increasing its reputation:

AI::MXNet (+1=7)
Algorithm::Dependency (+1=2)
Alien::Base (+1=14)
App::Prun (+3=4)
App::Sqitch (+1=33)
Archive::Tar (+1=11)
Bitcoin::RPC::Client (+1=3)
Chart::Clicker (+1=25)
Class::Accessor::Lite (+1=7)
Code::TidyAll (+1=28)
Convert::Base32 (+1=2)
CPAN::Changes (+1=22)
Curses (+1=3)
Dancer2 (+1=85)
Data::IEEE754::Tools (+1=3)
DateTime::Format::MySQL (+1=13)
DBD::SQLite (+1=66)
DBIx::Class::Migration (+1=21)
DBIx::Simple (+1=28)
Devel::CheckLib (+1=9)
Devel::CheckOS (+1=11)
Devel::MAT (+1=9)
Devel::SizeMe (+1=13)
Devel::Trace (+1=17)
Dumbbench (+1=13)
FFI::Platypus (+1=26)
File::chdir (+1=21)
File::Find::Rule (+1=31)
File::pushd (+1=10)
Future (+1=31)
Getopt::Long (+1=83)
Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=33)
Graph (+1=11)
Hash::Merge (+1=21)
Imager (+1=56)
IO::Socket::SSL (+1=28)
JIRA::REST (+1=8)
Log::Any (+1=43)
Memoize (+1=19)
MIME::Base64 (+1=17)
Module::Version (+1=10)
Mojo::JWT (+1=9)
Mojolicious (+1=336)
Mojolicious::Plugin::ReplyTable (+1=4)
MongoDB (+1=76)
Moo (+2=221)
Mouse (+1=45)
Net::OpenSSH::Parallel (+1=7)
Net::SFTP::Foreign (+1=17)
Object::Remote (+1=16)
Path::Iterator::Rule (+1=19)
Progress::Any (+1=6)
Progress::Any::Output::TermProgressBarColor (+1=3)
Ref::Util (+1=19)
Regexp::Debugger (+1=41)
REST::Client (+1=9)
RPerl (+1=18)
Search::Elasticsearch (+1=26)
Server::Starter (+1=21)
SQL::Abstract (+2=56)
SQL::Functional (+1=7)
String::Trim (+1=7)
Term::ProgressBar (+1=17)
Test2::Suite (+1=7)
Test::Differences (+1=15)
Test::Mock::LWP (+1=3)
Test::Roo (+1=12)
Text::Diff (+1=9)
Tie::Array::CSV (+1=4)
Tk (+1=16)
Types::Path::Tiny (+1=13)
URI::db (+1=5)
Web::Simple (+1=22)
WWW::Mechanize (+1=70)
XML::Feed (+1=7)
XML::Twig (+1=47)

(cclxxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-03-31 19:28:51 GMT

How to fallback to core object stringification? - [8/1]
Why is perldoc failing here? - [6/1]
How do I capture match-groups of alternation of a regular expression with split? - [5/2]
Listing all the child nodes of document element - [5/2]
Perl too slow concurrent download with both HTTP::Async & Net::Async::HTTP - [4/2]
Repeated DBI connect does not work with lexical variable in Perl 5.24.0 - [4/1]
Optimizing a regex filled with '?' - [3/2]
Why is using a regex pre-compiled with qr slower than using a constant regex? - [3/1]
Measure the runtime of a program run via perl "open" - [3/1]
fast loading of large hash table in Perl - [3/1]

26 mar 2017

(cxxv) 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	0.301	15	a fast CPAN module installer
2	DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler	0.002219	16	Extensible DBIx::Class deployment
3	DateTime::TimeZone	2.11	14	Time zone object base class and factory
4	FFI::Platypus	0.47	22	Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
5	Git::Raw	0.74	18	Perl bindings to the Git linkable library (libgit2)
6	MetaCPAN::Client	2.009000	16	A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
7	Minion	6.04	42	Job queue
8	Module::CoreList	5.20170320	25	what modules shipped with versions of perl
9	Module::Starter	1.72	23	a simple starter kit for any module
10	Mojo::mysql	1.01	14	Mojolicious and Async MySQL
11	Net::DNS	1.09	12	Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
12	SQL::Abstract	1.82	54	Generate SQL from Perl data structures
13	Text::CSV_XS	1.28	64	Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
14	Web::Simple	0.033	20	A quick and easy way to build simple web applications
15	ack	2.18	99	A grep-like program for searching source code
16	cpan::outdated	0.32	25	detect outdated CPAN modules in your environment.

(cclvii) metacpan weekly report - App::cpanminus & DBI

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 215 (!!)
Week's winners (+3): App::cpanminus, DBI
Build date: 2017/03/26 06:11:44 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Apache::ASP - Active Server Pages for Apache with mod_perl
Chart::Plot - Plot two dimensional data in an image. Version 0.10.
Crypt::OpenSSL::ECDSA - Perl extension for OpenSSL ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm)
MIME::Detect - MIME file type identification
Mojolicious::Plugin::Form - abstract forms for Mojolicious and DBIx::Class
Mojolicious::Plugin::Geo - Mojolicious Plugin
Path::Class::URI - Serializes and deserializes Path::Class objects as file:// URI
RT::Extension::ConditionalCustomFields - RT-Extension-ConditionalCustomFields Extension
Text::AI::CRM114 - Perl interface for CRM114
Twitter::API - A Twitter REST API library for Perl
WebService::Gitter - An interface to Gitter REST API via Perl 5.

Increasing its reputation:

ack (+2=102)
AI::FANN (+1=3)
Amazon::S3 (+1=2)
AnyEvent (+1=116)
App::Cmd (+1=29)
App::cpanminus (+3=218)
App::Devel::MAT::Explorer::GTK (+1=3)
App::DuckPAN (+1=4)
App::GitGot (+1=18)
App::HTTPThis (+1=18)
App::Nopaste (+1=25)
App::opan (+1=6)
App::perlbrew (+1=143)
App::pmuninstall (+1=32)
App::scan_prereqs_cpanfile (+1=15)
App::TimeTracker (+1=11)
autodie (+1=53)
Book::Chinese::MasterPerlToday (+1=2)
Bread::Board (+1=24)
Capture::Tiny (+2=77)
Carmel (+1=9)
Carp (+1=47)
Carton (+2=74)
Catalyst::Manual (+1=42)
Catalyst::Runtime (+1=130)
CGI (+1=28)
Chart::Plotly (+1=2)
CHI (+1=44)
Class::Load (+1=32)
Config::AutoConf (+1=5)
Config::INI (+1=13)
cpan::listchanges (+1=12)
cpan::outdated (+1=27)
Cpanel::JSON::XS (+2=19)
Daemon::Control (+1=40)
Dancer2 (+2=84)
Data::Printer (+1=109)
Data::Section::Simple (+1=10)
DateTime (+1=167)
DateTime::Format::Strptime (+1=18)
DBD::CSV (+1=17)
DBD::mysql (+1=40)
DBD::Pg (+1=58)
DBD::SQLite (+1=65)
DBI (+3=204)
DBIx::Class (+2=246)
Devel::Cover (+1=82)
Devel::hdb (+1=47)
Devel::MAT (+1=8)
Devel::NYTProf (+2=139)
Devel::Trace (+1=16)
Dist::Zilla (+1=153)
Email::Address (+1=14)
Email::Valid (+1=28)
experimental (+1=27)
Exporter::Lite (+1=7)
ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=34)
File::Find::Rule (+1=31)
File::HomeDir (+1=23)
File::LibMagic (+1=9)
File::Map (+1=13)
File::ShareDir (+1=30)
File::Slurper (+1=31)
File::Temp (+1=47)
forkprove (+1=18)
FSA::Rules (+1=5)
Geo::IP (+1=10)
GeoIP2 (+1=7)
Getopt::Long (+2=82)
Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=32)
Git::Raw (+1=20)
GraphViz (+1=10)
HTML::Barcode::QRCode (+1=2)
HTML::Parser (+2=34)
HTTP::Message (+1=51)
HTTP::Tiny (+1=82)
IO::Async (+1=35)
JSON (+1=74)
JSON::MaybeXS (+1=32)
JSON::Schema::AsType (+1=3)
libwww::perl (+2=129)
List::MoreUtils (+1=98)
List::SomeUtils (+1=6)
List::UtilsBy (+1=25)
LMDB_File (+2=5)
local::lib (+1=70)
Log::Dispatch (+1=37)
Log::Log4perl (+1=62)
Markdent (+1=18)
Marpa::R2 (+1=41)
Mason (+1=18)
Math::BigNum (+1=3)
Menlo (+1=8)
MetaCPAN::Client (+1=17)
Method::Signatures (+2=33)
Minion (+2=44)
Minion::Backend::mysql (+1=4)
Minion::Backend::SQLite (+1=6)
Mo (+1=31)
Module::CPANfile (+1=39)
Module::Load (+1=22)
Mojo::SQLite (+1=12)
Mojolicious (+2=335)
Mojolicious::Plugin::I18N (+1=12)
Mojolicious::Plugin::Model (+1=3)
Mojolicious::Plugin::PPI (+1=4)
MongoDB (+1=75)
Moo (+2=220)
MooseX::Storage (+1=18)
Mouse (+1=44)
namespace::autoclean (+1=19)
Net::OpenSSH (+1=24)
Net::SFTP::Foreign (+1=16)
Net::Shadowsocks (+1=2)
Object::Tiny::XS (+1=5)
OX (+1=26)
Parallel::ForkManager (+1=59)
Params::Util (+1=12)
Params::ValidationCompiler (+1=6)
Path::Tiny (+1=113)
PathTools (+2=58)
PDL (+1=29)
perl (+1=291)
Perl::Achievements (+1=5)
Perl::Build (+1=11)
Perl::Critic (+2=79)
Perl::Critic::Git (+1=3)
Perl::Lint (+1=9)
Perl::PrereqScanner (+1=20)
Perl::PrereqScanner::Lite (+1=7)
Perl::Tidy (+2=88)
Perl::Version (+1=6)
PerlPowerTools (+1=14)
Pod::Coverage::TrustPod (+1=6)
Pod::Usage (+2=28)
PPI (+1=40)
Prima (+1=19)
Regexp::Assemble (+1=24)
Regexp::Common (+1=35)
Regexp::Common::time (+1=6)
Reply (+1=50)
Scalar::List::Utils (+1=124)
Sereal (+1=40)
Sparrow (+1=6)
Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=8)
System::Info (+1=3)
Task::Kensho (+1=72)
Template::Toolkit (+1=104)
Test::Class::Moose (+1=13)
Test::Fatal (+1=37)
Test::Harness (+2=46)
Test::Output (+1=10)
Test::Pod (+1=17)
Test::Pod::Coverage (+1=17)
Test::Routine (+1=15)
Test::Simple (+1=140)
Test::TempDir::Tiny (+1=9)
Text::CSV_XS (+1=66)
Text::Xslate (+1=54)
Throwable (+1=30)
Time::Moment (+1=61)
Tk (+1=15)
Try::Tiny (+2=139)
Type::Tiny (+1=88)
Type::Tiny::XS (+1=8)
Ubic (+1=52)
URI (+1=81)
UUID::Tiny (+1=7)
Valence (+1=4)
version (+1=16)
Web::Machine (+1=25)
WWW::Dict::Leo::Org (+1=2)
Wx (+1=18)
XML::Parser (+1=4)
XSLoader (+1=4)
YAML (+1=49)
YAML::LibYAML (+1=35)
YAML::Syck (+1=15)
YAML::Tiny (+1=23)

18 mar 2017

(cxxiv) 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	Cache::Memcached::Fast	0.25	12	Perl client for memcached, in C language
2	Code::TidyAll	0.58	27	Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
3	Cpanel::JSON::XS	3.0230	16	cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
4	DBIx::Class::Helpers	2.033003	37	Simplify the common case stuff for DBIx::Class.
5	Function::Parameters	1.0706	35	subroutine definitions with parameter lists
6	Galileo	0.042	21	A simple modern CMS built on Mojolicious
7	Marpa::R2	4.000000	40	Release 2 of Marpa
8	Minion	6.03	42	Job queue
9	Mojo::Pg	3.05	43	Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
10	Mojolicious	7.29	332	Real-time web framework
11	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	1.41	35	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
12	Test::Class::Moose	0.81	12	Serious testing for serious Perl
13	Test::Harness	3.38	44	contributing to TAP::Harness
14	XML::LibXML	2.0129	70	Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
15	libwww::perl	6.24	126	The World-Wide Web library for Perl

(cclvi) metacpan weekly report - RPi::WiringPi & WiringPi::API

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 34
Week's winners (+2): RPi::WiringPi, WiringPi::API
Build date: 2017/03/18 08:44:49 GMT

Clicked for first time:

App::RPi::EnvUI - One-page asynchronous grow room environment control web application
App::TeleGramma - A modular Telegram Bot
Internals::DumpArenas - Dump perl memory
Language::LispPerl - A lisp in pure Perl with perl bindings.
Test::NoLeaks - Memory and file descriptor leak detector
WWW::Crawler::Mojo - A web crawling framework for Perl

Increasing its reputation:

AI::MXNet (+1=6)
Cache::FastMmap (+1=14)
Dancer2 (+1=82)
Dash::Leak (+1=2)
Database::Migrator (+1=3)
DBD::Pg (+1=57)
Devel::CheckLib (+1=8)
Feersum (+1=8)
FFI::Platypus (+1=25)
Mojolicious::Plugin::Model (+1=2)
NativeCall (+1=7)
PathTools (+1=56)
perl (+1=290)
PSGI (+1=43)
Ref::Util (+1=18)
Rex::Test::Spec (+1=2)
RPi::WiringPi (+2=4)
Scalar::List::Utils (+1=123)
String::Random (+1=13)
Time::HiRes (+1=47)
WebNano (+1=2)
WebService::Solr (+1=6)
WiringPi::API (+2=3)
XML::Generator (+1=5)
XML::Hash::XS (+1=9)
XML::Rabbit (+1=21)

(cclxxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-03-18 08:40:48 GMT

11 mar 2017

(cxxiii) 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::Base	0.038	13	A base class for Alien:: modules
2	Cpanel::JSON::XS	3.0229	16	cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
3	DBD::mysql	4.042	39	A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
4	Dancer2	0.205000	82	Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
5	Hash::Ordered	0.012	24	A fast, pure-Perl ordered hash class
6	IO::Socket::IP	0.39	12	Family-neutral IP socket supporting both IPv4 and IPv6
7	MCE	1.820	50	Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
8	MetaCPAN::Client	2.007000	16	A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
9	Mojo::Pg	3.04	43	Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
10	Mojolicious	7.28	332	Real-time web framework
11	Moo	2.003001	215	Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
12	WWW::Mechanize	1.84	69	Handy web browsing in a Perl object
13	XML::Compile	1.55	13	Compilation based XML processing
14	ack	2.16	99	A grep-like program for searching source code
15	libwww::perl	6.23	126	The World-Wide Web library for Perl

(cclv) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 36
This week there isn't any remarkable distribution
Build date: 2017/03/11 18:56:58 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Acme::MadokaMagica - It's new $module
App::Prove::Watch - Run tests whenever changes occur.
B::CompilerPhase::Hook - Programatically install BEGIN/CHECK/INIT/UNITCHECK/END blocks
Data::Validate::Domain - Domain and host name validation
DBIx::Class::ResultSet::SetControl - Easier Looping over resultsets
DBIx::Class::ResultSet::Void - improve DBIx::Class::ResultSet with void context
Devel::LeakGuard::Object - Scoped checks for object leaks
Devel::Plumber - memory leak finder for C programs
Module::Install::Repository - Automatically sets repository URL from svn/svk/Git checkout
optimize - Pragma for hinting optimizations on variables
Runops::Recorder - Runops replacement which saves what is being performed

Increasing its reputation:

B::C (+1=10)
B::Debugger (+1=2)
Config::Perl::V (+1=4)
CPAN::Testers::ParseReport (+1=2)
Data::Alias (+1=10)
DBIx::Lite (+1=18)
Devel::Caller (+1=5)
Devel::CheckLib (+1=7)
Devel::CheckOS (+1=10)
Devel::GoFaster (+1=2)
Devel::NYTProf (+1=137)
FindBin::libs (+1=5)
Hash::SharedMem (+1=2)
Module::Build (+1=34)
Module::Build::Pluggable::CPANfile (+1=5)
Mojo::IOLoop::LineReader (+1=2)
Mojolicious::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=7)
MOP (+1=3)
Net::Google::Analytics (+1=7)
Params::Lazy (+1=3)
Plack::Middleware::Debug::DBIC::QueryLog (+1=5)
PONAPI::Client (+1=3)
Sereal (+1=39)
Test::LeakTrace (+1=11)
UNIVERSAL::Object (+1=2)

(cclxxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-03-11 18:53:47 GMT

Unexpected autovivification of arguments - [10/1]
redefining or overloading backticks - [8/1]
perl and bash external command difference - [7/1]
Is there a way to access special tokens in perl from XS? - [7/0]
How to compile perl with DEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS? - [6/1]
Best perl method to determine if a TCP port is available - [4/1]
How to cleanup all autogenerated files? - [3/1]
Apache::DBI->connect_on_init database connection unused - [3/1]
Using Net::OpenSSH::rsync_get() method as sudo - [2/2]
Regex for URL that matches a format, but exclude parameters that match that URL format - [2/2]

4 mar 2017

(cxxii) 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::Base	0.036	13	A base class for Alien:: modules
2	App::Nopaste	1.008	24	Easy access to any pastebin
3	Config::Any	0.29	16	Load configuration from different file formats, transparently
4	DateTime::TimeZone	2.10	14	Time zone object base class and factory
5	JSON::MaybeXS	1.003009	30	Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
6	MCE	1.819	50	Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
7	Mojolicious	7.27	332	Real-time web framework
8	RapidApp	1.2111	22	Turnkey ajaxy webapps
9	Rex	1.5.0	48	Remote Execution
10	Spreadsheet::Read	0.70	17	Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
11	Swagger2	0.89	23	Deprecated
12	Test::Simple	1.302078	138	Basic utilities for writing tests.
13	Text::CSV_XS	1.27	64	Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
14	Text::Template	1.47	13	Expand template text with embedded Perl
15	autobox	2.85	19	call methods on native types
16	libwww::perl	6.22	126	The World-Wide Web library for Perl

(ccliv) metacpan weekly report - AI::MXNet

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 27
Week's winner: AI::MXNet (+2)
Build date: 2017/03/04 09:43:55 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Bio::Trace::ABIF - Perl extension for reading and parsing ABIF (Applied
Linux::LXC -
optimizer - Write your own Perl optimizer, in Perl

Increasing its reputation:

AI::MXNet (+2=5)
autovivification (+1=20)
B::Utils (+1=4)
Catalyst::Model::Adaptor (+1=8)
Class::Accessor::Lite (+1=6)
Config::General (+1=22)
Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=17)
DBIx::Class::Candy (+1=19)
Devel::IPerl (+1=11)
Digest::SHA3 (+1=5)
File::Map (+1=12)
Getopt::Long::Spec (+1=2)
HTML::Scrubber (+1=4)
HTTP::Date (+1=10)
IO::Prompt::Tiny (+1=9)
Marpa::R3 (+1=2)
MooseX::App (+1=14)
Parser::MGC (+1=7)
Runops::Trace (+1=2)
Statocles (+1=16)
Text::CSV_XS (+1=65)
Try::Catch (+1=6)
XML::LibXML (+1=73)

(cclxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-03-04 09:41:30 GMT