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

Yup, valdez, I do the same.

I've found some fun stuff that way, like Regex::PreSuf.
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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

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-

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.

So I submitted a Date::Language::Dutch module and threw away my local hack. This definitely was an improvement, especially for maintenance.

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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:


1. 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.
2. 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.
3. You will find some broken links. I am in the process of taking the site down, transfering things that I want to keep, etc...

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.

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Are all things that get installed PDQ after a new install.

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

Unless you're trying to read someone else's INI files, scratch Config::IniFiles in favour of Config::General. Comes with 3 cup holders extra. ++ on Test::Inline and Carp::Assert!

Makeshifts last the longest.

Hmm, interesting module. I've installed it now, but i'm doubtful that i'll be switching any time soon. Unfortunately the people that need to config the stuff I work on dont feel comfortable with config files more complicated than an ini file. :(

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

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.

I noticed that -- even important -- stuff is missing too and I wouldn't mind giving a hand, so feel free to let me know what I can do to help.

Regards, -gjb-

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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