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15/06/2013

(lxxxv) stackoverflow perl report

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2013-06-15 20:18:52 GMT

Perl Breaking out of an If statement - [10/4]
How do closures in Perl work? - [7/2]
Memory efficient statistical distribution module - [6/0]
Perl: What is the definition of a test? - [6/3]
Difference between a BLOCK and a function in terms of scoping in Perl - [6/2]
How do I use a perl variable name properly within backticks? - [5/3]
create a perl hash with array as the key - [5/3]
Is regex in perl faster than in Java or other languages? - [5/3]
Using an unknown method in Perl - [4/3]
How do you write wrapper module? - [4/1]

12/06/2013

(lx) metacpan weekly report - Reply

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 100

Week's winner: Reply (+6)

Build date: 2013/06/12 21:03:59 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

Acme::Lelek (+2=2)
AnyEvent::HTTPD (+1=4)
App::cpanminus (+2=106)
App::FatPacker (+1=13)
App::perlbrew (+1=85)
Bread::Board (+1=15)
Bread::Board::Declare (+1=5)
Cache::FastMmap (+1=2)
Catalyst::Action::REST (+1=9)
Config::PL (+1=2)
CPAN::Uploader (+1=8)
Dancer (+4=91)
DBD::ODBC (+1=6)
DBI (+1=101)
DBIx::Class (+1=115)
DBIx::Class::AuditLog (+1=7)
DBIx::Class::Schema::PopulateMore (+1=2)
Debug::Client (+1=4)
Devel::SizeMe (+1=6)
Dist::Milla (+1=3)
Dist::Zilla (+2=75)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub (+1=7)
Exporter (+1=7)
forkprove (+1=11)
Function::Parameters (+2=12)
Geo::IP (+1=5)
Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=14)
HTML::Escape (+1=2)
HTTP::BrowserDetect (+1=9)
HTTP::Message (+1=25)
Image::ExifTool (+1=10)
Imager (+1=27)
IPC::Run3 (+1=7)
Log::Any (+1=14)
M (+1=13)
MetaCPAN::API (+1=18)
Mojolicious (+1=127)
MojoMojo (+1=3)
Moo (+1=82)
Moose (+2=137)
MooseX::Traits (+1=11)
perl (+3=120)
perl5i (+1=14)
Plack (+1=101)
Plack::Middleware::CSRFBlock (+1=5)
POE::Component::IRC (+1=8)
Proclet (+1=5)
Reply (+6=12)
Scalar::List::Utils (+1=50)
Signal::Mask (+2=2)
Smart::Match (+2=7)
Specio (+1=2)
Sys::SigAction (+1=4)
Test::Deep (+1=13)
Test::Deep::JSON (+1=3)
Test::Fatal (+2=21)
Test::Most (+1=13)
Test::Routine (+1=8)
Test::Simple (+1=65)
Text::CSV (+1=21)
TimeDate (+1=12)
Validation::Class (+1=10)
Vroom (+3=6)
Web::Scraper (+1=22)
XML::LibXML (+1=39)
XML::Simple (+1=12)

08/06/2013

(lxxxiv) stackoverflow perl report

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2013-06-08 20:08:02 GMT

Perl 5.20 and the fate of SmartMatch and Given/When? - [19/3]
What criteria should I use to evaluate a Perl "app server" (mod_perl replacement)? - [14/2]
Unusual Perl Syntax - [11/3]
How to check which fonts contain a specific character with perl? - [9/1]
Find words with repeating characters - [8/4]
What does () mean at the end of Perl subroutine? - [7/2]
What's wrong with writing "@ARGV ||= '.';"? - [6/1]
Meaning of a bit of perl's Regular Expression? - [6/3]
Keys that spring into existence if checked with exists - [6/1]
Making an old library work with Perl XS and PerlIO - [6/0]

06/06/2013

(lix) metacpan weekly report - Reply

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 150

Week's winner: Reply (+6)

Build date: 2013/06/06 21:41:28 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

ack (+1=53)
Acme::CPANAuthors::Nonhuman (+1=0)
App::cpanminus::reporter (+1=12)
App::FatPacker (+1=12)
App::GitGot (+1=3)
App::perlbrew (+1=84)
App::PrereqGrapher (+1=4)
Attribute::Deprecated (+1=2)
Authen::Passphrase (+1=8)
BioPerl (+1=7)
Catalyst::Action::REST (+1=8)
Cinnamon (+1=2)
Clone (+1=10)
CPAN::Mini (+1=12)
CSS::Compressor (+1=5)
curry (+2=6)
Dancer (+1=87)
Data::Dump (+1=12)
Data::Dumper (+1=22)
Data::Page (+1=6)
Data::Printer (+1=45)
DateTime (+1=84)
DBI (+3=100)
DBIx::Class (+2=114)
DBIx::Lite (+1=8)
DBIx::QueryLog (+1=3)
Devel::hdb (+1=15)
Devel::NYTProf (+1=66)
Devel::REPL (+1=27)
Digest::SHA (+1=11)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ReadmeAnyFromPod (+1=5)
Elastic::Model (+1=5)
Encode (+1=18)
experimental (+1=5)
File::Temp (+1=24)
File::Util (+1=2)
HiPi (+1=2)
HTML::Format (+1=2)
HTML::Packer (+2=2)
HTML::Parser (+1=17)
HTTP::Tiny (+1=26)
Input::Validator (+2=4)
IO::Socket::SSL (+1=9)
JSON (+1=36)
JSON::XS (+2=50)
Kelp (+1=9)
Lingua::Romana::Perligata (+1=2)
List::MoreUtils (+1=57)
Marpa::R2 (+1=10)
Math::Symbolic (+1=2)
Minilla (+1=7)
Module::Versions::Report (+1=3)
Mojolicious (+1=126)
Mojolicious::Command::generate::bootstrap (+1=3)
Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoRoute (+1=2)
Mojolicious::Plugin::CSRFDefender (+1=2)
Mojolicious::Plugin::Gravatar (+1=4)
MojoX::Validator (+2=5)
Moose (+1=135)
MRO::Compat (+1=2)
namespace::clean (+1=8)
Net::Twitter (+1=17)
parent (+1=8)
Parser::MGC (+1=3)
PathTools (+1=26)
PDL (+1=11)
perl (+3=118)
Perl::Build (+1=2)
Perl::Critic (+1=42)
Perl::Dist::Strawberry (+1=3)
perl::ldap (+1=7)
Pinto (+1=17)
Plack (+2=100)
Plack::Handler::AnyEvent::HTTPD (+1=2)
plenv (+1=2)
POE (+1=18)
Proc::Fork (+1=7)
Readonly (+1=4)
Reflex (+1=5)
Regexp::Assemble (+1=10)
Reply (+6=6)
Scalar::Does (+1=4)
Session::Token (+1=4)
Smart::Match (+2=5)
Spreadsheet::Read (+1=5)
SQL::Abstract::FromQuery (+1=3)
SQL::Beautify (+1=2)
Starman (+1=47)
strictures (+1=6)
Test::Base (+1=4)
Text::Balanced (+1=5)
Text::Xslate (+2=23)
Ubic (+2=22)
Validation::Class (+1=10)
Vroom (+1=3)
XML::LibXML (+1=38)
XML::Tiny::Simple (+1=2)
ZMQ (+1=4)
ZMQ::LibZMQ3 (+1=3)

02/06/2013

(lxxxiii) stackoverflow perl report

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2013-06-01 22:21:26 GMT

What matches this regex: qr/(?!)/; - [11/3]
Strange perl code - looking for explanation - [9/1]
Perl - built-in function to "zipper" together two arrays? - [7/4]
Perl Moose attributes with minimum, maximum, and default value - [7/2]
Stripping everything except html tags using perl - [6/1]
About Perl range operator - [6/4]
Any way to find if two adjacent new lines start with certain words? - [6/5]
perl subroutine argument lists - "pass by alias"? - [4/2]
Find all strings in a file that are the same and print the value after in perl - [4/1]
Subroutine that returns hash - breaks it into separate variables - [4/5]

29/05/2013

(lviii) metacpan weekly report - Devel::hdb

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 110

Week's winner: Devel::hdb (+5)

Build date: 2013/05/29 20:27:11 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

ack (+1=52)
Algorithm::Combinatorics (+1=4)
AnyEvent::DBI::MySQL (+1=2)
AnyEvent::HTTP (+1=14)
App::cpanchanges (+2=2)
App::cpanminus (+1=104)
App::FatPacker (+1=11)
App::local::lib::helper (+1=2)
App::scan_prereqs_cpanfile (+1=2)
Array::To::Moose (+1=2)
Bad::Words (+1=2)
Bit::Vector (+1=5)
Cache::Memcached::Fast (+1=7)
Compress::Raw::Bzip2 (+1=2)
Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf (+1=6)
Data::Alias (+1=4)
Data::Compare (+1=2)
Data::Difference (+1=2)
Data::Table (+1=5)
DBIx::Class (+1=114)
DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::Serializer (+1=5)
DBIx::Class::Migration (+1=8)
DBIx::Class::Tree::NestedSet (+1=3)
DBIx::Simple (+1=10)
Devel::hdb (+5=14)
Devel::NYTProf (+1=66)
Dist::Milla (+1=2)
Dist::Zilla (+1=73)
Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail (+1=2)
Expect (+1=6)
experimental (+4=4)
File::Which (+1=5)
FindBin::libs (+1=3)
Future (+1=6)
Hash::AsObject (+1=2)
Hash::Objectify (+1=2)
HTML::Restrict (+1=6)
HTTP::Daemon (+1=3)
HTTP::Tiny (+1=25)
Kelp (+2=8)
List::Gen (+1=6)
Minilla (+1=6)
mod_perl (+1=6)
Module::Path (+1=4)
Mojolicious (+1=125)
Moo (+3=81)
Parallel::ForkManager (+1=17)
Parallel::Prefork (+1=3)
Parse::RecDescent (+1=6)
Path::Tiny (+1=21)
perl (+3=116)
ph (+1=3)
Plack::Middleware::CSRFBlock (+1=4)
Pod::Cpandoc (+1=7)
Pod::Markdown (+1=3)
Redis (+1=15)
rgit (+1=2)
Spreadsheet::XLSX::0.13 (+1=0)
SQL::Yapp (+1=2)
Term::ProgressBar (+1=5)
Test::HTTP::Server (+1=4)
Test::Mock::LWP::Dispatch (+1=4)
Test::Pod (+1=12)
Test::Warn (+1=9)
Text::Fuzzy (+1=6)
Text::Hunspell (+1=2)
Time::OlsonTZ::Clustered (+1=3)
Type::Tiny (+2=13)
UAV::Pilot (+1=2)
URI (+1=43)
VM::JiffyBox::0.001 (+1=0)
WWW::YouTube::Download (+1=9)
XML::SAX (+1=3)
XML::Simple (+1=12)
XML::Twig (+1=19)

25/05/2013

(lxxxii) stackoverflow perl report

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2013-05-25 20:51:12 GMT

22/05/2013

(lvii) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 161

Week's winner: perl (+6)

Build date: 2013/05/22 20:26:56 GMT

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Increasing its reputation:

ack (+1=51)
Amon2 (+1=11)
App::cpanminus (+1=103)
App::perlbrew (+4=83)
Capture::Tiny (+1=30)
Catalyst::ActionRole::MatchRequestMethod (+1=3)
Catalyst::Runtime (+1=75)
CGI::Expand (+1=4)
CHI (+1=19)
Class::Inspector (+1=7)
Class::Method::ModifiersX::Override (+1=2)
Clone (+1=9)
Config::Auto (+1=3)
Dancer2 (+1=9)
Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Extensible (+1=2)
Data::Alias (+1=4)
Data::Dump (+1=11)
Data::Faker (+1=2)
Data::Page::Navigation (+1=3)
Data::Printer (+1=44)
Date::Calc (+1=7)
DateTime (+2=83)
DBD::Pg (+1=22)
DBI (+1=98)
DBIx::Class (+2=114)
Devel::PPPort (+1=4)
Devel::REPL (+1=26)
Devel::StackTrace (+1=4)
Devel::StackTrace::WithLexicals (+1=3)
Devel::Trace (+1=5)
Devel::TraceUse (+1=4)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver (+1=6)
Encode (+1=17)
Exporter (+1=6)
File::Path (+1=13)
File::Path::Tiny (+1=3)
File::Slurp (+1=32)
Getopt::Long (+1=26)
Hash::Merge (+1=5)
HTTP::Date (+1=6)
Imager (+1=26)
IPC::Run (+1=9)
JSON (+1=35)
JSON::XS (+1=48)
Kelp (+2=8)
List::MoreUtils (+1=56)
Log::Any (+1=14)
LWP::MediaTypes (+1=2)
M (+1=12)
Minilla (+2=5)
Mojolicious (+5=124)
MongoDB (+1=14)
Moo (+1=78)
Moose (+2=134)
MooseX::Declare (+1=15)
MooseX::OmniTrigger (+2=2)
MooseX::Types (+2=24)
MooX (+1=3)
MooX::ClassStash (+1=2)
MooX::InsideOut (+1=2)
MooX::LvalueAttribute (+1=2)
MooX::Validate (+1=3)
Mouse (+1=21)
namespace::sweep (+1=4)
Net::OAuth (+1=3)
Parser::MGC (+1=2)
Path::Class (+1=48)
Path::Tiny (+1=20)
PDF::API2 (+1=7)
perl (+6=113)
Perl::Critic (+2=42)
Perl::Tidy (+3=44)
Perlbal (+1=3)
ph (+1=2)
Pithub (+1=8)
Plack::Middleware::CSRFBlock (+1=3)
Role::Tiny (+1=14)
Sereal (+1=3)
SQL::Maker (+1=5)
SQL::Statement (+1=3)
Starman (+1=47)
Sub::Exporter (+1=20)
Sub::Name (+1=11)
Sub::Override (+1=5)
Syntax::Keyword::Junction (+1=5)
Test::Exception (+1=15)
Test::Simple (+2=64)
Text::CSV (+1=21)
Text::Xslate (+2=21)
threads (+1=2)
threads::shared (+1=2)
Tie::IxHash (+1=7)
Time::Piece (+1=8)
Try::Tiny (+1=69)
Type::Tiny (+1=11)
Ubic (+1=20)
Unicode::UTF8 (+1=3)
Web::Query (+1=6)
WWW::Mechanize (+1=41)
WWW::Mechanize::Firefox (+1=8)
X11::GUITest (+1=2)
YAML (+1=24)
YAML::Syck (+1=10)

19/05/2013

(lxxxi) stackoverflow perl report

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2013-05-19 18:56:24 GMT

What is RMAGICAL? - [7/2]
in perl(v5.14.2), why is map{+0,0}() correct but map{0,0}() not? - [7/1]
What exactly mean the ${...} in the perl? - [6/3]
confusion with my variable in perl - [6/2]
Approximating pi in Perl - what am I doing wrong? - [6/1]
Edit linux capabilities in Perl - [6/1]
Is there a way to capture a subroutine's print output to a variable so I can send it to stderr instead? - [6/3]
compilation order and post prefix opertors - [4/1]
Difference between use Modulename; and use Modulename(); - [4/4]
Reading and Writing line by line from/to the same file - [4/2]

15/05/2013

(lvi) metacpan weekly report - WWW::YouTube::Download

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 146

Week's winner: WWW::YouTube::Download (+4)

Build date: 2013/05/15 20:13:24 GMT

Clicked for first time:

Increasing its reputation:

aliased (+1=16)
Amon2 (+1=10)
AnyEvent (+2=45)
AnyEvent::Fork::Pool (+2=2)
AnyEvent::Fork::RPC (+1=2)
App::cpanminus (+1=102)
App::mymeta_requires (+1=2)
App::OrgUtils (+1=2)
App::p (+1=7)
App::perlbrew (+1=79)
Audit::DBI (+1=2)
autodie (+1=28)
Catalyst::Runtime (+1=74)
CatalystX::Resource (+1=2)
CatalystX::SimpleLogin (+1=5)
CHI (+1=19)
Clone (+1=8)
Config::AutoConf (+1=2)
Config::INI (+1=6)
Data::Dumper (+1=21)
Data::Dumper::Concise (+1=9)
DateTime (+1=81)
DBD::Pg (+1=21)
DBIx::Class (+2=112)
DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::Serializer (+1=4)
DBIx::Connector (+1=12)
Directory::Scratch (+1=2)
Dist::Zilla (+1=72)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MinimumPerl (+1=3)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver (+1=5)
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Signature (+1=4)
Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::DAGOLDEN (+1=5)
Dist::Zilla::Role::Stash::Plugins (+1=2)
Elastic::Model (+1=4)
Email::Valid (+1=13)
Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=13)
Exporter (+1=6)
File::Slurp (+1=31)
Furl (+1=13)
Gapp (+1=3)
Gtk2::Ex::Builder (+1=2)
Hailo (+1=3)
HTML::FormHandlerX::Form::JQueryValidator (+1=2)
HTTP::Async (+1=5)
HTTP::BrowserDetect (+1=8)
IPC::Run (+1=8)
JSON::Tiny (+1=3)
Kelp (+2=6)
Lingua::Stem::Snowball (+1=3)
local::lib (+2=32)
Log::Any::Adapter (+1=4)
Log::Dispatch (+2=23)
Module::Build (+1=14)
Module::Signature (+2=3)
Mojolicious (+2=122)
MojoMojo (+1=2)
Moose (+1=132)
MooX::Options (+1=6)
Net::SNMP (+1=3)
Number::Format (+1=5)
Package::Stash (+1=12)
Parallel::ForkManager (+1=16)
Path::Class (+1=47)
perl (+2=108)
Perl::MinimumVersion (+2=8)
Perl::Tidy (+1=42)
Perlbal (+1=2)
perlsecret (+1=11)
perlude (+1=3)
Pinto (+1=16)
pmtools (+1=8)
Proc::PID::File (+1=2)
Scalar::List::Utils (+1=49)
Scope::Guard (+1=2)
Server::Starter (+1=6)
SOAP::Lite (+1=6)
SockJS (+1=4)
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (+1=13)
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (+1=11)
Sub::Exporter (+1=19)
Sub::Override (+1=4)
Task::CPAN::Reporter (+1=3)
Test::TCP (+1=11)
Text::Autoformat (+1=6)
Text::CSV (+1=20)
TheSchwartz (+1=6)
Tie::Array::CSV (+1=2)
TimeDate (+1=11)
Type::Tiny (+2=10)
URI (+1=42)
utf8::all (+1=16)
WWW::Mechanize (+1=40)
WWW::YouTube::Download (+4=9)
XML::LibXML (+1=37)
XML::Rabbit (+1=14)