29 feb 2020

(cclxxviii) 7 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.

  1. Catalyst::Devel - Catalyst Development Tools
    • Version: 1.40 on 2020-02-27
    • Votes: 22
    • Previous version: 1.39 was 6 years, 8 months, 13 days before
  2. experimental - Experimental features made easy
    • Version: 0.021 on 2020-02-22
    • Votes: 30
    • Previous version: 0.020 was 1 year, 9 months, 13 days before
  3. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
    • Version: 0.105 on 2020-02-25
    • Votes: 45
    • Previous version: 0.104 was 9 months, 28 days before
  4. HTTP::Message - HTTP style message (base class)
    • Version: 6.22 on 2020-02-24
    • Votes: 58
    • Previous version: 6.18 was 1 year, 8 months, 19 days before
  5. Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ - interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq
    • Version: 2.40005 on 2020-02-23
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 2.40004 was 8 months, 9 days before
  6. Promises - An implementation of Promises in Perl
    • Version: 1.04 on 2020-02-23
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 1.03 was 1 month, 16 days before
  7. Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
    • Version: 1.34 on 2020-02-27
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 1.33 was 1 year, 6 months, 9 days before

(cdix) metacpan weekly report - Template::Toolkit

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 67
Week's winners (+3): Template::Toolkit
Build date: 2020/02/29 08:10:40 GMT

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(cdxxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-29 08:07:16 GMT

  1. How to emulate wc -l in Raku - [6/1]
  2. How to differentiate between false and defined values in Template Toolkit for perl - [3/2]
  3. How to call a grandparent method in perl - [3/2]
  4. How to send email via Email::Simple? - [3/1]
  5. Converting XLSX to CSV with Perl while maintaining the encoding - [3/0]
  6. Perl push an element into an array that is inside of another array - [2/4]
  7. Using perl `my` within actual function arguments - [2/3]
  8. LWP::UserAgent ignoring SSL_VERIFY_PEER - [2/2]
  9. Perl variable scopes seemingly not cooperating - [2/2]
  10. Is there any way to declare a function as a variable in perl? - [2/2]

22 feb 2020

(cclxxvii) 13 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.

  1. AI::MXNet - Perl interface to MXNet machine learning library
    • Version: 1.5 on 2020-02-19
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 1.4 was 11 months, 24 days before
  2. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.08 on 2020-02-16
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 2.04 was 10 days before
  3. DBIx::Class::Helpers - Simplify the common case stuff for DBIx::Class.
    • Version: 2.035000 on 2020-02-21
    • Votes: 46
    • Previous version: 2.034002 was 1 month, 23 days before
  4. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 3.23 on 2020-02-19
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 3.22 was 5 days before
  5. Keyword::Declare - Declare new Perl keywords...via a keyword...named keyword
    • Version: 0.001017 on 2020-02-16
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.001016 was 11 days before
  6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20200220 on 2020-02-21
    • Votes: 34
    • Previous version: 5.20200120 was 1 month, 1 day before
  7. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.017 on 2020-02-16
    • Votes: 26
    • Previous version: 1.016 was 5 months, 3 days before
  8. Regexp::Debugger - Visually debug regexes in-place
    • Version: 0.002004 on 2020-02-16
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 0.002003 was 16 days before
  9. Selenium::Remote::Driver - Perl Client for Selenium Remote Driver
    • Version: 1.37 on 2020-02-18
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 1.36 was 3 months, 10 days before
  10. Test::MockModule - Override subroutines in a module for unit testing
    • Version: v0.172.0 on 2020-02-19
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: v0.171.0 was 4 months before
  11. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.41 on 2020-02-16
    • Votes: 85
    • Previous version: 1.40 was 5 months, 1 day before
  12. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.010000 on 2020-02-19
    • Votes: 116
    • Previous version: 1.008005 was 20 days before
  13. WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
    • Version: 1.96 on 2020-02-21
    • Votes: 84
    • Previous version: 1.95 was 3 months, 24 days before

(cdviii) metacpan weekly report - Zydeco

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 84
Week's winner: Zydeco (+6)
Build date: 2020/02/22 13:46:27 GMT

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(cdxxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-22 13:44:45 GMT

  1. How do I extract a certain amount of lines after a pattern in perl? - [4/6]
  2. Perl Serial port access [Windows 10] - [4/0]
  3. perl open() always returns the PID of the sh instead of the underlying program - [3/1]
  4. Perl next if regex stored in array - [3/1]
  5. Days/Months/Years between two dates - [3/1]
  6. Mojo $c->reply->exception vs die? - [2/1]
  7. Installing Switch.pm in Active perl on windows 10 - [2/1]
  8. Why is perl regex hanging? - [2/1]
  9. Devel::Cover - Save coverage data before the program ends - [2/0]
  10. perl - matching greater than charater in regex - [1/4]

15 feb 2020

(cclxxvi) 10 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.

  1. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.044015 on 2020-02-12
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.044013 was 8 days before
  2. Data::Table - Data type related to database tables, spreadsheets, CSV/TSV files, HTML table displays, etc.
    • Version: 1.78 on 2020-02-11
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 1.77 was 1 year, 19 days before
  3. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
    • Version: 2.067 on 2020-02-14
    • Votes: 39
    • Previous version: 2.066 was 11 months, 8 days before
  4. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 3.22 on 2020-02-14
    • Votes: 25
    • Previous version: 3.19 was 7 days before
  5. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.866 on 2020-02-09
    • Votes: 77
    • Previous version: 1.865 was 1 month, 14 days before
  6. Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
    • Version: 1.20200211 on 2020-02-11
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 1.20200201 was 10 days before
  7. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 8.33 on 2020-02-11
    • Votes: 417
    • Previous version: 8.32 was 23 days before
  8. Moops - Moops Object-Oriented Programming Sugar
    • Version: 0.038 on 2020-02-15
    • Votes: 50
    • Previous version: 0.036 was 1 year, 6 months, 6 days before
  9. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.22 on 2020-02-13
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 1.21 was 5 months, 14 days before
  10. Pegex - Acmeist PEG Parser Framework
    • Version: 0.75 on 2020-02-13
    • Votes: 20
    • Previous version: 0.74 was 22 days before

(cdvii) metacpan weekly report - Text::CSV

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 53
Week's winner: Text::CSV (+2)
Build date: 2020/02/15 10:13:00 GMT

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(cdxxxi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-15 10:11:11 GMT

  1. Why do @+ and @{^CAPTURE} differ in length? - [4/2]
  2. How can I keep my environment variables between two calls to open? - [3/3]
  3. Perl: Force hash in numeric order - [2/3]
  4. STDOUT and STDERR out of order - [2/3]
  5. Why doesn't `my $x = if (0) {1} else {2}` work? - [2/2]
  6. Encoding problem using new line command in perl - [2/2]
  7. Polling a constantly updating text file to cut selected information - [2/1]
  8. How to determine, in a Moose constructor, what context it was called in? - [2/1]
  9. Permanently change @INC for Perl scripts - [2/1]
  10. windows script creates a clickable Beyond Compare report but now stopped working - [2/0]

8 feb 2020

(cclxxv) 20 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.

  1. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 2.04 on 2020-02-06
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.98 was 7 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.044013 on 2020-02-04
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.044012 was 3 days before
  3. App::revealup - HTTP Server application for viewing Markdown formatted text as slides
    • Version: 0.22 on 2020-02-06
    • Votes: 15
    • Previous version: 0.21 was 4 years, 5 months, 9 days before
  4. Archive::Tar - Manipulates TAR archives
    • Version: 2.36 on 2020-02-02
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 2.34 was 1 day before
  5. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
    • Version: 4.46 on 2020-02-03
    • Votes: 36
    • Previous version: 4.45 was 21 days before
  6. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
    • Version: 4.19 on 2020-02-06
    • Votes: 32
    • Previous version: 4.18 was 1 month, 24 days before
  7. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
    • Version: 0.026 on 2020-02-02
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.025 was 4 months, 3 days before
  8. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
    • Version: 0.067 on 2020-02-01
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 0.066 was 3 months, 12 days before
  9. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
    • Version: 3.10.4 on 2020-02-03
    • Votes: 82
    • Previous version: 3.10.3 was 14 days before
  10. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 1.10 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 1.09 was 18 days before
  11. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 3.19 on 2020-02-07
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 3.18 was 9 days before
  12. Keyword::Declare - Declare new Perl keywords...via a keyword...named keyword
    • Version: 0.001016 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 0.001015 was 16 days before
  13. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
    • Version: 0.238 on 2020-02-07
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.237 was 1 year, 7 months, 1 day before
  14. PDF::API2 - Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
    • Version: 2.037 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 2.036 was 4 months, 18 days before
  15. POE - Portable, event-loop agnostic eventy networking and multitasking.
    • Version: 1.368 on 2020-02-02
    • Votes: 49
    • Previous version: 1.367 was 4 years, 7 months, 29 days before
  16. Rex - the friendly automation framework
    • Version: 1.8.1 on 2020-02-05
    • Votes: 69
    • Previous version: 1.8.0 was 1 month before
  17. Sub::Util - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
    • Version: 1.54 on 2020-02-02
    • Votes: 146
    • Previous version: 1.53 was 3 months, 9 days before
  18. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 4.011 on 2020-02-04
    • Votes: 52
    • Previous version: 4.009 was 4 days before
  19. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 4.011 on 2020-02-04
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 4.009 was 4 days before
  20. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 4.011 on 2020-02-04
    • Votes: 19
    • Previous version: 4.009 was 4 days before

(cdvi) metacpan weekly report - Sub::MultiMethod

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 61
Week's winners (+3): Sub::MultiMethod
Build date: 2020/02/08 21:11:12 GMT

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(cdxxx) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-08 21:08:34 GMT

  1. Some string values ("0", "", and " ") are defined, but (==undef) - [4/1]
  2. printf format specifiers for Perl API types - [3/2]
  3. How to find the number of vowels in a string using Perl - [2/4]
  4. Getopts to flag bad options without dash - [2/3]
  5. What does "#! -*-perl-*-" mean? - [2/2]
  6. Regex : replace a phrase only if NOT preceded by a word - [2/2]
  7. Building table from list using nearest value? - [1/5]
  8. Perl Parsing Without Package - [1/3]
  9. Perl array loop - [1/3]
  10. Asynchronous programming in Perl - [1/2]

1 feb 2020

(cclxxiv) 27 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.

  1. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
    • Version: 1.98 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 1.94 was 1 month, 14 days before
  2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
    • Version: 2.044011 on 2020-01-26
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 2.044010 was 1 day before
  3. App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
    • Version: 0.88 on 2020-01-29
    • Votes: 163
    • Previous version: 0.87 was 3 months, 4 days before
  4. Dancer - lightweight yet powerful web application framework
    • Version: 1.3513 on 2020-01-29
    • Votes: 144
    • Previous version: 1.3512 was 9 months, 29 days before
  5. DBD::ODBC - ODBC DBD for Perl DBI
    • Version: 1.61 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 1.60 was 1 year, 3 months before
  6. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
    • Version: 1.643 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 240
    • Previous version: 1.642 was 1 year, 3 months, 2 days before
  7. Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls - coveralls backend for Devel::Cover
    • Version: 0.13 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 13
    • Previous version: 0.11 was 5 years, 3 months, 22 days before
  8. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
    • Version: 11.85 on 2020-01-28
    • Votes: 33
    • Previous version: 11.70 was 3 months, 18 days before
  9. JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
    • Version: 3.18 on 2020-01-29
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 3.17 was 1 month before
  10. Minion - Job queue
    • Version: 10.04 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 74
    • Previous version: 10.02 was 1 month, 10 days before
  11. Minion::Backend::mysql - MySQL backend
    • Version: 0.19 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 12
    • Previous version: 0.18 was 4 months, 28 days before
  12. Modern::Perl - enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
    • Version: 1.20200201 on 2020-02-01
    • Votes: 43
    • Previous version: 1.20190727 was 6 months, 5 days before
  13. Module::Build - Build and install Perl modules
    • Version: 0.4231 on 2020-01-29
    • Votes: 40
    • Previous version: 0.4229 was 9 months, 14 days before
  14. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 4.18 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 64
    • Previous version: 4.17 was 3 months, 23 days before
  15. Path::Tiny - File path utility
    • Version: 0.112 on 2020-01-29
    • Votes: 147
    • Previous version: 0.110 was 16 days before
  16. Regexp::Debugger - Visually debug regexes in-place
    • Version: 0.002003 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 48
    • Previous version: 0.002001 was 2 years, 4 months, 5 days before
  17. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 4.009 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 51
    • Previous version: 4.007 was 9 months, 22 days before
  18. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 4.009 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 17
    • Previous version: 4.007 was 9 months, 22 days before
  19. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 4.009 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 18
    • Previous version: 4.007 was 9 months, 22 days before
  20. Template::Toolkit - comprehensive template processing system
    • Version: 3.007 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 124
    • Previous version: 3.006 was 11 days before
  21. Test2::Suite - Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.
    • Version: 0.000129 on 2020-01-31
    • Votes: 24
    • Previous version: 0.000127 was 3 months before
  22. Tickit - Terminal Interface Construction KIT
    • Version: 0.70 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 23
    • Previous version: 0.69 was 28 days before
  23. Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
    • Version: 1.05 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 14
    • Previous version: 1.01 was 8 days before
  24. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 1.008005 on 2020-01-30
    • Votes: 115
    • Previous version: 1.008003 was 17 days before
  25. YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language™
    • Version: 1.30 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 61
    • Previous version: 1.29 was 8 months, 16 days before
  26. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: 0.81 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 41
    • Previous version: 0.80 was 5 months, 5 days before
  27. YAML::Syck - Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
    • Version: 1.32 on 2020-01-27
    • Votes: 16
    • Previous version: 1.31 was 1 year, 3 months, 2 days before

(cdv) metacpan weekly report - Sub::HandlesVia

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 65
Week's winner: Sub::HandlesVia (+3)
Build date: 2020/02/01 08:32:38 GMT

Clicked for first time:
  • B::COW - B::COW additional B helpers to check COW status
  • Eircode - Validation and utilities for Eircodes / Irish postcodes
  • GTop - Perl interface to libgtop
  • JS::JJ - Encode and Decode JJ
  • Object::Depot - Decouple object instantiation from usage.
  • Plack::Middleware::DirIndex - Append an index file to request PATH's ending with a /
  • Shout - Perl glue for libshout MP3 streaming source library
  • Sub::MultiMethod - yet another implementation of multimethods
  • Sys::CpuLoad - a module to retrieve system load averages.
  • VS::Chart - Simple module to create beautifully looking charts

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(cdxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2020-02-01 08:31:19 GMT

  1. Multiple filehandles opening the same file - is it a good practice? - [5/3]
  2. Why not simply use __PACKAGE__ when creating a new Perl module? - [4/1]
  3. Perl variable assignment side effects - [3/2]
  4. Perl module depends on a binary, why tests fail on FreeBSD even if using CheckBin? - [3/1]
  5. Reg ex for splitting camel case words by hyphen in njs (javascript) - [3/1]
  6. Perl Postgres Trigger acting incorrectly - [3/0]
  7. Perl 5.26: How to get keys from 2d hash? - [2/3]
  8. Trying to change connection host name in perl script that connect to SQL Server DB - [2/2]
  9. Using Mojo::UserAgent and accessing the JSON in response? - [2/2]
  10. parse URL params in Perl - [2/1]