24 feb 2018

(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

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(cccxxix) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-02-24 19:50:12 GMT

  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]

17 feb 2018

(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

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(cccxxviii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-02-17 20:35:58 GMT

  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]

10 feb 2018

(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

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(cccxxvii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-02-10 21:31:08 GMT

  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]

3 feb 2018

(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

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(cccxxvi) stackoverflow perl report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-02-03 18:30:18 GMT

  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]