NAME

Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl

VERSION

This document describes Task::Kensho version 0.31

SYNOPSIS

> cpan Task::Kensho

DESCRIPTION,

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensho:

Kenshō (見性) (C. Wu) is a Japanese term for enlightenment
experiences—most commonly used within the confines of Zen
Buddhism—literally meaning "seeing one's nature"[1] or "true
self."[2] It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of
subject and object."[3]

Task::Kensho is a first cut at building a list of recommended modules for Enlightened Perl development. CPAN is wonderful, but there are too many wheels and you have to pick and choose amongst the various competing technologies.

The plan is for Task::Kensho to be a rough testing ground for ideas that go into among other things the Enlightened Perl Organisation Extended Core (EPO-EC).

The modules that are bundled by Task::Kensho are broken down into several categories and are still being considered. They are all taken from various top 100 most used perl modules lists and from discussions with various subject matter experts in the Perl Community. That said, this bundle does not follow the guidelines established for the EPO-EC for peer review via industry advisers.

Starting in 2011, Task::Kensho split its sub-groups of modules into individually-installable tasks. These individual tasks will always install all their modules by default. This facilitates the ease and simplicity the distribution aims to achieve. Each Task::Kensho sub-task is listed at the beginning of its section in this documentation.

Basic Toolchain: Task::Kensho::Toolchain

App::cpanminus: Get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
local::lib: Create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB
version: Perl extension for Version Objects

Testing: Task::Kensho::Testing

Test::Simple: Basic utilities for writing tests.
Test::Most: Most commonly needed test functions and features.
Test::Exception: Test exception based code
Test::Pod: Check for POD errors in files
Test::Pod::Coverage: Check for pod coverage in your distribution.
Test::Memory::Cycle: Check for memory leaks and circular memory references
Devel::Cover: Code coverage metrics for Perl

Logging: Task::Kensho::Logging

Log::Dispatch: Dispatches messages to one or more outputs
Log::Log4perl: Log4j implementation for Perl
Log::Contextual: Simple logging interface with a contextual log

Exception Handling: Task::Kensho::Exceptions

Try::Tiny: Lightweight exception handling that handles the vagaries of $@.
TryCatch: Flexible exception handling without source filters, handles $@ properly.
autodie: Make builtins and other functions die instead of returning undef on failure.

Object Oriented Programming: Task::Kensho::OOP

Task::Moose: Moose is a postmodern object system for Perl5. Task::Moose installs Moose and optionally a list of recommended modules that extend Moose.

Asynchronous Programming: Task::Kensho::Async

POE: Multitasking and networking framework for Perl

XML Development: Task::Kensho::XML

XML::LibXML: Perl Binding for libxml2
XML::LibXSLT: Interface to the gnome libxslt library
XML::SAX: Simple/Streaming API for XML
XML::Generator::PerlData: Perl extension for generating SAX2 events from nested Perl data structures.
XML::SAX::Writer: Output XML from SAX2 Events

Web Development: Task::Kensho::WebDev

Plack: Flexible superglue between Web Servers and Perl Web Frameworks or code.
Task::Catalyst: Catalyst is The Elegant MVC Web Application Framework. Task::Catalyst is all you need to start with Catalyst.
Template::Toolkit: Template Processing System
CGI::FormBuilder::Source::Perl: Build CGI::FormBuilder configs from Perl syntax files.
XML::RSS: Creates and updates RSS files
XML::Atom: Atom feed and API implementation
MIME::Types: Definition of MIME types

Web Crawling: Task::Kensho::WebCrawling

HTTP::Lite: Lightweight HTTP client implementation
LWP::UserAgent: Web user agent class
LWP::Simple: Simple procedural interface to LWP
WWW::Mechanize: Handy web browsing in a Perl object
WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder: This module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder.

Database Development: Task::Kensho::DBDev

DBI: Database independent interface for Perl
DBD::SQLite: Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver
DBIx::Class: Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader: Dynamic definition of a DBIx::Class::Schema
SQL::Translator: Manipulate structured data definitions (SQL and more)

Excel / CSV: Task::Kensho::ExcelCSV

Text::CSV_XS: Manipulate comma-separated values (CSV)
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple: A simple interface to Excel data
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple: Create Excel documents easily

Module Development: Task::Kensho::ModuleDev

Dist::Zilla: Builds distributions of code to be uploaded to the CPAN.
Module::Install: Standalone, extensible Perl module installer
Devel::NYTProf: Powerful feature-rich perl source code profiler
Perl::Tidy: Parses and beautifies perl source
Perl::Critic: Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
Carp::Always: Warns and dies noisily with stack backtraces
Modern::Perl: enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one command
Perl::Version: Parse and manipulate Perl version strings
Software::License: Packages that provide templated software licenses
Pod::Readme: Convert POD to README file
CPAN::Uploader: Upload things to the CPAN

Email: Task::Kensho::Email

Email::Simple: A simple email object. No, really!
Email::Valid: Check validity of Internet email addresses
Email::Sender: A library for sending email
Email::MIME::Kit: The Swiss army chainsaw of assembling email messages

Date Modules: Task::Kensho::Dates

DateTime: A date and time object
Date::Tiny: A date object with as little code as possible
Time::Tiny: A time object with as little code as possible
DateTime::Tiny: A date object with as little code as possible
Time::ParseDate: Date parsing both relative and absolute

Scalability: Task::Kensho::Scalability

CHI: A unified cache interface, like DBI

Config Modules: Task::Kensho::Config

Config::Any: Load configuration from different file formats, transparently
Config::General: Generic Config Module

Useful Command-line Tools: Task::Kensho::CLI

App::Ack: A grep-like text finder
App::Nopaste: Easy access to any pastebin
Devel::REPL: A modern perl interactive shell
Module::CoreList: What modules shipped with versions of perl
App::perlbrew: Manage perl installations in your $HOME

Script Hackery: Task::Kensho::Hackery

These packages are included less for production work and more for whippitupitude. They reflect packages that people have found incredibly useful for prototyping and debugging before reducing down to a production script.

Smart::Comments: Comments that do more than just sit there
Term::ProgressBar::Simple: Simple progress bars
IO::All: IO::All combines all of the best Perl IO modules into a single nifty object oriented interface to greatly simplify your everyday Perl IO idioms.

RELEASE SCHEDULE

Starting with release 0.18 Task::Kensho was moved to a monthly release cycle. This will facilitate a consistent schedule for upstream vendors to track the changes in Task::Kensho.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

This list is by no means comprehensive of the "Good" Modules on CPAN. Nor is this neccessarily the correct path for all developers. Each of these modules has a perfectly acceptable replacement that may work better for you. This is however a path to good perl practics, and a starting place on the road to Enlightened Perl programming.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-task-kensho@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

To install Task::Kensho, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Task::Kensho

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Task::Kensho

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

	Global
`s`	Focus search bar
`?`	Bring up this help dialog

	GitHub
`g` `p`	Go to pull requests
`g` `i`	go to github issues (only if github is preferred repository)

	POD
`g` `a`	Go to author
`g` `c`	Go to changes
`g` `i`	Go to issues
`g` `d`	Go to dist
`g` `r`	Go to repository/SCM
`g` `s`	Go to source
`g` `b`	Go to file browse

	Search terms
module: (e.g. module:Plugin)
distribution: (e.g. distribution:Dancer auth)
author: (e.g. author:SONGMU Redis)
version: (e.g. version:1.00)