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Testing say()
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Testing say()
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In the last few days I extracted some code buried in our interal Tools-repo into a distinct distribution. I added some tests and documentation, and a few hours ago Plack::Middleware::PrettyException ...
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 |
5.90114 |
129 |
The Catalyst Framework Runtime |
| 2 |
Dancer2 |
0.204002 |
82 |
Light [...] |
This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 43
Week's winners (+2):
PDL::IO::XLSX, Syntax::Keyword::Try
Build date: 2016/12/23 20:08:22 GMT
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first time:
These are the ten most rated questions at
Stack Overflow last week.
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question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-12-23 20:04:57 GMT
- Regex lookahead non capturing with if/then - [5/2]
- passing parameters from shell script to perl pro [...]
About this mini-article series. For each of the past 24 23 days, I have reviewed a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. This series was born out of my experimentations [...]
About this mini-article series. Each day for 24 days, I will be reviewing a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. Getopt::Complete (GC) is a module written by Scott Smit [...]
About this mini-article series. Each day for 24 days, I will be reviewing a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. Getopt::Kingpin is a port of Go’s kingpin library [...]
I wrote a language-agnostic article and posted it on Medium. Cross posting here for anyone following my Perl posts as well. I hope you enjoy it. https://medium.com/@joel.a.berger/on-the-danger-of-software-magicians-fd8186b8945c#.lmpgrfzie...
About this mini-article series. Each day for 24 days, I will be reviewing a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. In contrast to in Perl, where the core modules Getopt [...]
So, I wrote a base class for perl called ABCMeta. It does basically what python's equivalent does, but as a bonus, I do it at compile time. I plan on releasing it as soon as I write more tests to make sure I cover more of the corner cases, but I am s [...]
About this mini-article series. Each day for 24 days, I will be reviewing a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. In the next few days, I'll be reviewing Perl ports [...]
About this mini-article series. Each day for 24 days, I will be reviewing a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. In the previous article I discussed App::Cmd, which is [...]
About this mini-article series. Each day for 24 days, I will be reviewing a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. Traditionally, option parsing modules in Perl like Geto [...]
About this mini-article series. Each day for 24 days, I will be reviewing a module that parses command-line options (such module is usually under the Getopt::* namespace). First article is here. Getopt::Modular is a Getopt::Long wrapper that lets you [...]

This blog post is part of my ongoing project to write a book about Perl 6.
If you're interested, please sign up for the mailing list at the bottom of the article, or here. It will be low volume (less than an email per month, on average).
In the previou [...]
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 |
0.294 |
15 |
a fast CPAN module installer |
| 2 |
Catalyst::Runtime |
5.90113 |
129 |
The Catal [...] |
This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 27
This week there isn't any remarkable distribution
Build date: 2016/12/16 17:43:38 GMT
Clicked for
first time:
These are the ten most rated questions at
Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [
question score / answers count]
Build date: 2016-12-16 17:31:12 GMT
- Where are perl constants replaced by their values? - [6/1]
- Why include SvSETMAGIC() on output varia [...]