(clxxiii) 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::scan_prereqs_cpanfile	1.10	18	Scan prerequisite modules and generate CPANfile
2	Encode	2.97	45	character encodings in Perl
3	FFI::Platypus	0.48	32	Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
4	File::Slurper	0.012	35	A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
5	GD	2.68	21	Perl interface to the gd2 graphics library
6	Getopt::Long::Descriptive	0.102	39	Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
7	Image::ExifTool	10.80	26	Read and write meta information
8	IO::Socket::SSL	2.056	32	Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
9	libwww::perl	6.32	137	The World-Wide Web library for Perl
10	Markdent	0.30	19	An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
11	Minilla	v3.0.15	36	CPAN module authoring tool
12	Minion	8.10	55	Job queue
13	Module::CoreList	5.20180220	30	what modules shipped with versions of perl
14	Mojolicious	7.68	365	Real-time web framework
15	Net::GitHub	0.94	22	Perl Interface for github.com
16	PathTools	3.74	64	Tools for working with directory and file names
17	Perl::Tidy	20180220	97	indent and reformat perl scripts
18	Pithub	0.01034	18	Github v3 API
19	Plack::Middleware::Debug	0.17	19	display information about the current request/response
20	Scalar::List::Utils	1.50	131	Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
21	Selenium::Remote::Driver	1.26	32	Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
22	SVG	2.84	12	Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents.
23	Test::Simple	1.302125	151	Basic utilities for writing tests.
24	Time::Piece	1.3204	39	Object Oriented time objects
25	YAML::Tiny	1.73	27	Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible

(cccv) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 54
Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)
Build date: 2018/02/24 20:32:02 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Algorithm::Bertsekas - auction algorithm for the assignment problem.
• App::cpanoutdated::fresh - Indicate out-of-date modules by walking the metacpan releases backwards
• Asterisk::AMI - Perl module for interacting with the Asterisk Manager Interface
• BSON::XS - XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization
• Encode::Simple - Encode and decode text, simply
• JSONAPI::Document - Turn DBIx results into JSON API documents.
• Mojolicious::Command::generate::resources - Generate MVC & OpenAPI RESTful API files from database tables
• Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONAPI - Mojolicious Plugin for building JSON API compliant applications.
• Parallel::Subs - Simple way to run subs in parallel and process their return value in perl
• Pg::ServiceFile - Basic PostgreSQL connection service file interface
• Test::Clustericious::Cluster - Test an imaginary beowulf cluster of Clustericious services
• URI::Fast - A fast(er) URI parser

Increasing its reputation:

• ack (+1=110)
• AnyEvent (+1=127)
• App::opan (+1=9)
• App::RemoteCommand (+1=4)
• Benchmark::Perl::Formance (+1=3)
• BSON (+1=6)
• Clustericious (+1=4)
• Coro (+1=51)
• Crypt::SMIME (+1=2)
• Data::MuForm (+1=3)
• Data::Password::zxcvbn (+1=4)
• DateTime::Moonpig (+1=10)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=147)
• Event (+1=5)
• Expect (+1=19)
• feedgnuplot (+1=2)
• File::Slurp (+1=62)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=39)
• GraphViz2 (+1=7)
• Image::ExifTool (+1=26)
• IO::Prompter (+1=12)
• LeftPad (+1=20)
• Log::Any (+1=48)
• Minion (+1=55)
• Mojolicious (+2=365)
• Mozilla::CA (+1=13)
• Net::GitHub (+1=22)
• OAuth::Cmdline (+1=4)
• Perl6::Export::Attrs (+1=2)
• Pithub (+1=18)
• Plack::Middleware::Debug (+1=19)
• Protocol::Redis (+1=7)
• Redis (+1=38)
• Redis::Fast (+1=10)
• SDL (+1=20)
• Slurp (+1=2)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=110)
• Test::Simple (+1=151)
• URI::db (+1=7)
• Verilog::VCD (+1=2)
• Yancy (+1=6)

(cccxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-02-24 19:50:12 GMT

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1. Regex, Remove duplicate paths from delimited string - [5/5]
2. Initializing a CodeRef field of a Moose class - [3/2]
3. How to distinguish variable from literal/constant in function parameters - [3/1]
4. making sure that my handling of utf8 is correct - [3/1]
5. Jenkins - Different result from pipeline and freestyle build (carton install failed to install some modules) - [3/1]
6. Oracle merge instead of insert? - [3/1]
7. Data transformation using sed - [2/4]
8. How to remove a dot from a dynamically created URL - [2/3]
9. Getting Data::Dumper Object print error - [2/2]
10. Why does Moo's builder method have access to only some of the other attributes? - [2/1]

(clxxii) 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	DateTime	1.46	176	A date and time object for Perl
2	DBD::Pg	3.7.4	62	DBI PostgreSQL interface
3	Dist::Zilla	6.011	160	distribution builder; installer not included!
4	Encode	2.96	45	character encodings in Perl
5	ExtUtils::MakeMaker	7.32	40	Create a module Makefile
6	IO::Socket::SSL	2.055	32	Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
7	IPC::Cmd	1.00	16	A cross platform way of running (interactive) commandline programs.
8	JSON::Validator	2.03	19	Validate data against a JSON schema
9	Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall	0.19	12	run blocking functions asynchronously by forking
10	Mojolicious	7.66	364	Real-time web framework
11	Moose	2.2010	275	A postmodern object system for Perl 5
12	Mouse	v2.5.2	48	Moose minus the antlers
13	Net::OpenSSH	0.77	25	Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
14	Selenium::Remote::Driver	1.24	32	Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
15	SVG	2.83	12	Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents.
16	Test2::Suite	0.000100	14	Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
17	Text::Template	1.50	15	Expand template text with embedded Perl
18	Time::HiRes	1.9754	51	High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers

(ccciv) metacpan weekly report - Data::Password::zxcvbn

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 56
Week's winners (+4): Data::Password::zxcvbn
Build date: 2018/02/17 20:47:56 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Markdown::To::POD - Convert Markdown syntax to POD
• Math::Random::MT - The Mersenne Twister PRNG
• Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoSecrets - Automatic, Rotating Mojolicious Secrets
• Plack::Middleware::Precompressed - serve pre-gzipped content to compression-enabled clients
• Test::Parallel - launch your test in parallel
• Unix::Groups::FFI - Interface to Unix group syscalls
• Win32::Tracert - Call Win32 tracert tool or parse Win32 tracert output
• WWW::REST - Base class for REST resources

Increasing its reputation:

• Acme::Bleach (+1=6)
• App::cpm (+1=28)
• Aspect (+1=5)
• BEGIN::Lift (+1=3)
• Carmel (+1=11)
• Carton (+1=88)
• CBOR::XS (+1=9)
• Config::IniFiles (+1=10)
• CryptX (+1=32)
• Data::Password::zxcvbn (+4=4)
• Data::Section (+1=7)
• Dependencies::Searcher (+1=3)
• Exception::Reporter (+1=3)
• Forks::Super (+1=6)
• GeoIP2 (+1=8)
• GraphQL (+1=7)
• IP::Country (+1=2)
• Markdown::Pod (+1=6)
• Module::CoreList (+1=30)
• Module::CPANfile (+1=44)
• Mojo::mysql (+1=23)
• Mojolicious (+2=364)
• Net::DNS (+1=14)
• Net::SSH2 (+1=18)
• Package::Stash (+1=24)
• perl (+3=304)
• Perl::PrereqScanner::NotQuiteLite (+1=4)
• Pod::Checker (+1=4)
• Pod::Cpandoc (+1=13)
• Pod::Markdown (+1=19)
• PPI (+1=42)
• REST::Client (+1=11)
• Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX (+1=14)
• Syntax::Keyword::Junction (+1=12)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+2=16)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=42)
• Test::RequiresInternet (+1=21)
• Text::Template (+1=15)
• Web::Simple (+1=23)
• Yancy (+2=5)

(cccxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-02-17 20:35:58 GMT

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1. How do I compare two objects in Perl without coercing them to the same type? - [4/3]
2. Capture word between optional hyphens regex - [3/4]
3. Perl Ternary Operator with Undef - [3/3]
4. Keep open socket connection Perl - [3/1]
5. Mojolicious: Inconsistent URL Decoding of Route Placeholders - [3/1]
6. Perl $$ (double dollar) sign -- what does it dereference? - [2/1]
7. Perl Regex: Match this group, but not having this pattern - [2/1]
8. Newlines inside CSV data break Text::CSV reading - [2/1]
9. Correct way of rewriting `curl ...` to perl - [2/1]
10. In Perl 5, Term::Readline does not accept arrow keys - [2/1]

(clxxi) 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	0.958	27	a fast CPAN module installer
2	DBD::mysql	4.046	44	A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
3	Encode	2.95	45	character encodings in Perl
4	List::Gather	0.14	13	Construct lists procedurally without temporary variables
5	Mojolicious	7.64	361	Real-time web framework
6	Net::DNS	1.15	13	Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
7	Net::OpenSSH	0.76	25	Perl SSH client package implemented on top of OpenSSH
8	Plack	1.0047	197	Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
9	Test::Simple	1.302122	150	Basic utilities for writing tests.
10	Text::Template	1.49	14	Expand template text with embedded Perl
11	WWW::Mechanize	1.87	75	Handy web browsing in a Perl object

(ccciii) metacpan weekly report - Syntax::Keyword::Try

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 65
Week's winners (+3): Syntax::Keyword::Try
Build date: 2018/02/10 21:37:18 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::ShellCheckWiki - Check the wiki for details about shellcheck errors.
• DBIx::QuickDB - Quickly start a db server.
• Net::SPID - SPID implementation for Perl
• PEF::Front::WebSocket - WebSocket framework for PEF::Front
• Pegex::CSV - Pegex CSV Parser/Loader
• Test::BDD::Cucumber::Definitions - The great new Test::BDD::Cucumber::Definitions!
• Test::Mojo::Role::Debug - Test::Mojo role to make debugging test failures easier
• WebService::YDMM - It's yet another DMM sdk.

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::PredictionClient (+1=2)
• AnyEvent::Fork (+1=11)
• AnyEvent::Fork::Pool (+1=7)
• App::RemoteCommand (+1=3)
• App::Stacktrace (+1=3)
• Coro (+1=50)
• Data::Dumper (+1=77)
• EV (+1=26)
• Firefox::Marionette (+1=3)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=10)
• Gimp (+1=4)
• Gtk2::TrayIcon (+1=2)
• Hash::Merge (+1=22)
• HTTP::Message (+1=53)
• Kafka (+1=5)
• Keyword::Declare (+1=7)
• LinkEmbedder (+1=2)
• List::Gen (+1=16)
• Module::CoreList (+1=29)
• Module::Version (+1=10)
• Mojo::Redis2 (+1=12)
• Mojolicious (+1=361)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RenderFile (+1=15)
• PAR (+1=9)
• PathTools (+1=64)
• PDF::WebKit (+1=9)
• Pegex::Crontab (+1=2)
• perl (+1=303)
• Perl::LibExtractor (+1=4)
• Regexp::Assemble (+1=26)
• Reply (+1=51)
• RPi::WiringPi (+1=5)
• Sereal (+1=46)
• Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (+1=33)
• Storable (+1=37)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+3=15)
• Term::Colormap (+1=2)
• Term::ProgressBar (+1=20)
• Test2::Suite (+1=14)
• Test::Simple (+2=150)
• Text::CSV (+1=53)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=73)
• Throwable (+1=32)
• Tickit (+1=19)
• Tk::TableMatrix (+1=3)
• Toadfarm (+1=16)
• Try::Tiny (+1=152)
• Try::Tiny::Retry (+1=22)
• Type::Tiny (+1=96)
• Unicode::String (+1=5)
• Unicode::UTF8 (+1=18)
• Urlader (+1=3)
• XMLRPC::Lite (+1=2)
• YAML::Tiny (+1=27)

(cccxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-02-10 21:31:08 GMT

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1. How can I distribute an application with many perlapp executables but distribute only one perl - [5/1]
2. What is the Perl equivalent of PCRE's PCRE_PARTIAL? - [5/1]
3. SED or AWK replace all with patterns from another file - [4/4]
4. How to NOT execute trigger while constructing object - [4/2]
5. Why does `perl -pe 's/$/\n/g'` add 2 blank lines? - [4/2]
6. Is there a Perl PSGI/Plack server available that only speaks PSGI and not also HTTP? - [4/1]
7. Insert newline before/after match for TSV - [3/4]
8. Replace multi-line plain text - [3/2]
9. How to read a line from a filehandle in a hashref - [2/2]
10. How to ask for one argument out of two using GetOptions? - [2/2]

(clxx) 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	Bot::BasicBot	0.93	13	simple irc bot baseclass
2	Catmandu	1.08	12	a data toolkit
3	Cpanel::JSON::XS	4.01	21	cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
4	CryptX	0.057	31	Crypto toolkit
5	DBI	1.640	216	Database independent interface for Perl
6	DBIx::Class	0.082841	254	Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
7	JSON::MaybeXS	1.003010	34	Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
8	JSON::Validator	2.02	19	Validate data against a JSON schema
9	List::UtilsBy	0.11	26	higher-order list utility functions
10	Mojo::Pg	4.08	55	Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
11	Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack	2.02	39	Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files
12	Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI	1.25	23	OpenAPI / Swagger plugin for Mojolicious
13	Net::SFTP::Foreign	1.89	17	Secure File Transfer Protocol client
14	Proc::ProcessTable	0.55	15	Perl extension to access the unix process table
15	Selenium::Remote::Driver	1.23	32	Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
16	Spreadsheet::Read	0.78	19	Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data

(cccii) metacpan weekly report - Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 76
Week's winner (+3): Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Build date: 2018/02/03 18:35:57 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Kiyoshi::Array - It's new ZUNDOKO Kiyoshi Array
• Alien::FFI - Build and make available libffi
• Bot::Jabbot - simple pluggable jabber bot
• colorize::stderr - Colorize STDERR
• Crypt::FileHandle - encrypted FileHandle
• Dancer2::Plugin::Queue - Dancer2 plugin for message queue abstractions
• Dancer2::Plugin::Queue::MongoDB - Dancer2::Plugin::Queue backend using MongoDB
• DBIx::Class::Tutorial - DBIx::Class::Tutorial::Part1
• File::fgets - Read either one line or X characters from a file
• File::GetLineMaxLength - Get lines from a file, up to a maximum line length
• Geo::Coder::Free - Provides a geocoding functionality using free databases of towns
• Mojo::Log::Che - Little child of great parent Mojo::Log.
• Mojo::Pg::Che - mix of parent Mojo::Pg and DBI.pm
• Mojolicious::Che - 
• Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Che - Child of Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack for little bit code.
• Net::IRR - Perl interface to the Internet Route Registry daemon
• PerlIO::fgets - Provides a fgets() like function for PerlIO file handles
• PPIx::Literal - Convert PPI nodes into literal values
• Proc::Govern - Run child process and govern its various aspects
• Test::Mock::One - Mock the world with one object
• Vlc::Engine - An embedded for VLC Player

Increasing its reputation:

• Alien::wxWidgets (+1=10)
• App::Staticperl (+1=14)
• AWS::Signature4 (+1=3)
• Catalyst::Plugin::Session (+1=13)
• Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple (+1=4)
• DBIx::Class (+1=254)
• DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader (+1=42)
• Devel::MAT (+1=12)
• Device::BCM2835 (+1=3)
• Digest::SHA3 (+1=6)
• Dist::Milla (+2=26)
• File::Which (+1=16)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=9)
• Graph (+1=13)
• Hash::MultiValue (+1=13)
• Hash::Ordered (+1=27)
• JSON::Validator (+1=19)
• libapreq2 (+1=2)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=67)
• MCE (+1=56)
• Minion (+2=54)
• mod_perl (+1=18)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=55)
• Mojo::Redis2 (+1=11)
• Mojolicious (+2=360)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+1=23)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RenderFile (+1=14)
• MongoDBx::Queue (+1=4)
• Moo (+1=242)
• Moose (+1=275)
• MRO::Compat (+1=3)
• Net::Jabber (+1=2)
• Net::XMPP (+1=4)
• Object::PerlDesignPatterns (+1=3)
• Pandoc (+1=3)
• Pandoc::Elements (+2=4)
• Path::Tiny (+1=125)
• PDF::API2 (+1=18)
• Perl::Critic (+1=89)
• Regexp::Common (+1=39)
• RPi::PIGPIO (+1=2)
• Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (+3=33)
• Spreadsheet::XLSX (+1=13)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=58)
• Test::Simple (+1=148)
• Text::ParseWords (+1=7)
• Tickit (+1=18)
• Time::Piece (+1=39)
• UNIVERSAL::Object (+1=7)

(cccxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-02-03 18:30:18 GMT

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1. Cannot create non-virtual view using DBIx::Class::Schema::Versioned - [5/0]
2. Why would hot deploy of Hypnotoad rerun old http requests? - [4/1]
3. Hash value overwrite due to similar keys? - [4/0]
4. Transform strings in bash - add parentheses around params - [3/1]
5. SQLite: should I detach attached databases before a disconnect? - [3/1]
6. How to convert a perl variable in a operator for make equations? - [3/1]
7. What happens when instead of creating variables with 'my', you only specify the name of the variable in Perl? - [2/2]
8. Processing curl output in perl - [2/2]
9. Splitting a string containing a longitude or latitude expression in perl - [2/2]
10. How to highlight capture groups (e.g. with brackets around them) in the entire match output in Perl - [2/1]