Single Male Perl Hacker looking for unwritten Modules for candlelight dinners and feature expansion

So, I couldn't sleep last night. Apparantly I wasn't thinking either, but that's beside the point.

So, in my sleepless daze, I stumbled on this node. I ++'ed it and noted that it had a pretty good rep. Pondering it a moment, I thought "Hey, I could do that" and began to. Now, leaving aside that I was alot more exhausted than I thought I was, I wrote some descent code. I have really come a long way in the Perlish arts.

The thing is, if I finish this it'll be my first working program worth noting (in Perl,anyways). This isn't my job, and probably never will be. I have written one minor script to make things easier for myself - and it's simply a little module doc management tool so that I can keep at my Perl addiction with less fuss.

But I am compotent - I just don't have anything to write. So, my formal question: what do you guys want? You out there in the trenches, hacking for a living, what Perl modules do you need to get your work done? You, out there in the universities, what cool new conceptual niftiness is unimplemented? And you, out there on the bleeding edge, what new TLA is unsupported in Perl? Where can I subclass, bugfix, document and do the community good? Is there an official "wish list" out there? Tell me, for I am just looking for neat stuff to do.

Cheers,
Erik

Light a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Catch a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchet

PS: Yes, document. I'll even just do docs, if I like the module, and know what it does - of course, usually that means having read the docs :-)

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Re: Module requests by cjf (Parson) on May 26, 2002 at 20:41 UTC
If you're looking to write modules, I'd suggest finding something that makes your jobs easier/more enjoyable and chances are other people will find it useful as well. You may also want to consider writing tests. Update: There's no real need to limit yourself to modules either. You could even try your luck at building Perl Desktop Applications.	[reply]
Re: Single Male Perl Hacker looking for unwritten Modules for candlelight dinners and feature expansion by demerphq (Chancellor) on May 27, 2002 at 08:31 UTC
Heh. I posted Demerphq's Wishlist some weeks ago in the hope that someone needed a project. I have a few more as well that I haven't added that i will when I get time. Yves / DeMerphq --- Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.	[reply]
(MeowChow) Re: Single Male Perl Hacker looking for unwritten Modules for candlelight dinners and feature expansion by MeowChow (Vicar) on May 27, 2002 at 09:30 UTC
I am compotent I think I've found a new sig... ;-) MeowChow s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print	[reply]
Re: Re: Module Requests by cjf (Parson) on May 27, 2002 at 13:18 UTC
Hey, 541 web pages can't be wrong ;-).	[reply]
Re: (MeowChow) Re: Single Male Perl Hacker looking for unwritten Modules for candlelight dinners and feature expansion by erikharrison (Deacon) on May 28, 2002 at 00:43 UTC
I didn't say I could spell Cheers, Erik Light a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Catch a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchet	[reply]
Re: Single Male Perl Hacker looking for unwritten Modules for candlelight dinners and feature expansion by Jenda (Abbot) on May 27, 2002 at 18:14 UTC
The PS really caught my eye ;-) As some people noted Mail::Sender is in a big need of a docs rewrite. (It's in a need of a complete rewrite actually, but that's another problem.) I was trying, but ... writing docs is harder than writing code :-( Pretty please ... ;-) Jenda P.S.: Server for @Krynicky.cz is down at the moment. Please contact me at Jan.Krynicky@TMP.com if interested.	[reply]