Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by valdez (Monsignor) on Oct 23, 2002 at 10:57 UTC
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I realized two or three years ago that CPAN has answers for nearly everything. Now my first duty in the morning is a visit to the recent uploads page, where sometimes I discover something new, interesting and useful.
Another wonderful meta index for CPAN is Perlmonks itself;
questions posted here are a good way to learn about modules and possible uses of them; moreover, sometimes answers given here suggest many different modules. Can you imagine a better way to learn something? :)
I had a lot of experiences like yours: CGI.pm, HTML::Template, Config::General, CGI::Application, Date::Calc...
Ciao, Valerio
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You might be interested in the use.perl mailing list.
The days uploads are sent along with all of the use.perl news.
Saves visiting the recent upload page.
-dwiz
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Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by gjb (Vicar) on Oct 23, 2002 at 10:34 UTC
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It's quite a while ago, and maybe I didn't look hard enough, but two modules come to mind: List::Util and Tie::IxHash.
I've quite often implemented the functionality offered by those modules scattered over different projects.
-gjb-
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I can already think of uses for Tie::IxHash. Nice one.
Although it probably fails my new rule I'd add Scalar::Util along with List::Util as a rather useful little module that's harder to find than it should be.
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Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by joe++ (Friar) on Oct 23, 2002 at 15:08 UTC
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After I hacked msy own crappy "Date::Locale" to format localtime in a different language, I stumbled accross Graham Barr's Date::Language::* modules. These are tucked away in the TimeDate modules.
So I submitted a Date::Language::Dutch module and threw away my local hack. This definitely was an improvement, especially for maintenance. --
Cheers, Joe
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Wow! How could I have missed those?
I did something similar last year. Don't laugh because I haven't touched them in a long time. In fact, way before I found Perl Monks! Without further ado... http://free.prohosting.com/~musgrove/scripts/
I need to spruce those up a bit and submit some Date::Language modules of my own now.
Obligatory warnings:
- I'm not a linguist. The only languages I know are English and Perl (and I'm not great at either of those). You may find big mistakes in the translations.
- I started writing these scripts around the end of 2000 and continued work on them until sometime near the end of 2001 when I moved them. They need some work.
- You will find some broken links. I am in the process of taking the site down, transfering things that I want to keep, etc...
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Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by hiseldl (Priest) on Oct 23, 2002 at 14:18 UTC
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I found Tie::DBI which also has hidden in it Tie::RDBM. These are not available via PPM, but they are pure perl implementations and are easily installed with the CPAN shell. I have found Tie::DBI to be fairly useful for small projects and am working on a seperate version that eliminates some of the overhead.
-- hiseldl What time is it? It's Camel Time!
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Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 23, 2002 at 18:38 UTC
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Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by princepawn (Parson) on Oct 23, 2002 at 14:13 UTC
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I have been working creating a set of more detailed keywords for CPAN so that people don't miss things related to their task.
Is anyone interested in working on this? I was browsing the frontpage of search.cpan.org and found several things for certain categories that were missing. | [reply] |
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Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by strredwolf (Chaplain) on Oct 23, 2002 at 17:37 UTC
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Remember, we have Inline::C to help folks...
But then, I'd like to have an interface for a VNC server. (Read: VNC server inside a Perl script -- trying to tye in V4L to a VNC server)
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$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";
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