27 may 2017

(cxxxiv) 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 0.042 13 Base classes for Alien:: modules
2 DBD::Pg 3.6.2 55 DBI PostgreSQL interface
3 DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader 0.07047 38 Create a DBIx::Class::Schema based on a database
4 Exporter::Tiny 1.000000 14 an exporter with the features of Sub::Exporter but only core dependencies
5 Minilla v3.0.11 30 CPAN module authoring tool
6 Mojo::mysql 1.03 14 Mojolicious and Async MySQL
7 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.44 35 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
8 MooseX::App 1.3701 13 Write user-friendly command line apps with even less suffering
9 Net::GitHub 0.87 21 Perl Interface for github.com
10 PDL 2.018 27 Perl Data Language
11 Selenium::Remote::Driver 1.20 32 Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
12 Spreadsheet::Read 0.72 17 Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
13 Teng 0.30 21 very simple DBI wrapper/ORMapper

(cclxvi) metacpan weekly report - Moo

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 57
Week's winner: Moo (+3)
Build date: 2017/05/27 03:29:09 GMT

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(ccxc) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-05-27 03:25:16 GMT

  1. Perl Unit Testing -- is the subroutine testable? - [5/3]
  2. perl: print a string from a hash that contains a reference to it - [4/3]
  3. Why does the Dumper module place parens around the assignment of its settings hash? - [4/2]
  4. Perl `split` does not `split` to default array - [4/2]
  5. Is there a way to run perl code during cpan install after tests have passed? - [3/2]
  6. Attribute is => 'Maybe[SomeSubtype]' returns Attribute () does not pass type constraint - [3/2]
  7. how to make perl script into installer exe or msi - [3/1]
  8. How can I attach a debugger to a Dancer2 application - [3/0]
  9. Dancer2 application: streaming content blocks server and client. How to avoid blocking? - [3/0]
  10. Perl - Combine multiple regexps without renumbering? - [2/3]

21 may 2017

(cxxxiii) 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 0.302 15 a fast CPAN module installer
2 Code::TidyAll 0.59 27 Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
3 Expect 1.35 16
4 Function::Parameters 2.000007 35 define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
5 Furl 3.11 34 Lightning-fast URL fetcher
6 JSON 2.93 72 JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
7 Log::Contextual 0.007001 12 Simple logging interface with a contextual log
8 MetaCPAN::Client 2.015000 16 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
9 Mojo::mysql 1.02 14 Mojolicious and Async MySQL
10 PPI 1.224 39 Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
11 Perl::Tidy 20170521 86 indent and reformat perl scripts
12 Ref::Util 0.203 13 Utility functions for checking references
13 Teng 0.29 21 very simple DBI wrapper/ORMapper
14 Test::Class::Moose 0.84 12 Serious testing for serious Perl
15 YAML::LibYAML 0.65 34 Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml

(cclxv) metacpan weekly report - Moo

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 64
Week's winners (+3): Moo
Build date: 2017/05/21 17:55:47 GMT

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(cclxxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-05-21 17:52:55 GMT

  1. Is there a core Perl module for SSL/TLS support? - [5/1]
  2. What does this nefarious program do? - [4/3]
  3. How to catch connection error on Perl MongoDB driver? - [4/0]
  4. Interpolating a non-interpolated passed string inside a subroutine in Perl - [3/1]
  5. Why is my perl script an order of magnitude faster than the equivalent python code - [3/0]
  6. In Perl, how can I use `s///` to make multiple replacements? - [2/4]
  7. Error running Learn Perl (learn.perl.org) example for reading a directory - [2/2]
  8. Subroutine giving two different outputs when called twice - [2/2]
  9. How can I validate function parameters in Perl? - [2/2]
  10. How to optimize this Perl file find? - [2/1]

13 may 2017

(cxxxii) 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 Data::Dumper::Concise 2.023 17 Less indentation and newlines plus sub deparsing
2 Devel::Cover 1.25 79 Code coverage metrics for Perl
3 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git 2.042 36 Update your git repository after release
4 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub 0.44 14 Plugins to integrate Dist::Zilla with GitHub
5 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::ReportPrereqs 0.027 12 Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
6 IPC::Cmd 0.98 15 A cross platform way of running (interactive) commandline programs.
7 IPC::Run 0.96 21 system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
8 Inline::C 0.77 18 C Language Support for Inline
9 MetaCPAN::Client 2.014000 16 A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
10 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.43 35 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
11 Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication 1.32 13 A plugin to make authentication a bit easier
12 MooseX::AttributeShortcuts 0.029 13 Shorthand for common attribute options
13 Ref::Util 0.201 13 Utility functions for checking references
14 Spreadsheet::Read 0.71 17 Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
15 Test::Class::Moose 0.83 12 Serious testing for serious Perl
16 Test::TCP 2.19 20 testing TCP program

(cclxiv) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 51
This week there isn't any remarkable distribution
Build date: 2017/05/13 19:47:55 GMT

Clicked for first time:
  • Capstone - Perl extension for capstone-engine
  • Games::Dice - Perl module to simulate die rolls
  • Keystone - Perl extension for keystone-engine
  • MARC::Charset - convert MARC-8 encoded strings to UTF-8
  • Stow - manage the installation of multiple software packages
  • Time::Verbal - Convert time distance to words.

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(cclxxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-05-13 19:44:28 GMT

  1. Perl fails to kill self pid when running from bash script - [4/3]
  2. Why is this negative lookbehind being considered a successful regex match? - [4/2]
  3. What does the caret ^ in (?^...) mean in the string form of a Perl qr// Regex? - [4/2]
  4. SFTP file uploading and downloading at same time - [3/3]
  5. what is the difference between taking reference to a variable using \ and {},[] in perl? - [3/2]
  6. "=~" and "!~" operator makes odd hash count in Perl when passed in a subroutine - [3/1]
  7. Perl: Trying to speed up parsing a delimited file - [3/1]
  8. How to send boolean value from perl script without converting them into string - [3/1]
  9. Spawn Expect from a perl thread - [3/1]
  10. Perl module for 'file' command? - [3/1]

6 may 2017

(cxxxi) 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 Catalyst::Runtime 5.90115 129 The Catalyst Framework Runtime
2 Cpanel::JSON::XS 3.0233 16 cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
3 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::ReportPrereqs 0.026 12 Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
4 MCE 1.829 50 Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
5 Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack 1.42 35 Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
6 Moose 2.2005 257 A postmodern object system for Perl 5
7 Net::DNS 1.10 12 Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
8 Params::Validate 1.28 29 Validate method/function parameters
9 Test::Deep 1.127 37 Extremely flexible deep comparison
10 Test::Simple 1.302085 138 Basic utilities for writing tests.

(cclxiii) metacpan weekly report - XS::Tutorial

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 43
Week's winner: XS::Tutorial (+5)
Build date: 2017/05/06 21:30:25 GMT

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(cclxxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-05-06 21:24:34 GMT

  1. Check whether an array contains a value from another array - [4/2]
  2. How to apply splice or any other function to several different arrays in Perl? - [3/3]
  3. How to locate Perl modules in the same directory as the script - [3/2]
  4. What does the ^= operator do in Perl? - [3/2]
  5. Perl - Synchronizing Data Access - [3/2]
  6. How can I log to two different files in Log4perl? - [3/1]
  7. Perl Thaw throwing segmentation fault - [3/1]
  8. How to conditionally import functions from another module and export them to the local namespace - [2/3]
  9. Regex match two words or at least one - [2/2]
  10. Strip string but allow umlauts - [2/2]