NAME

Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl

VERSION

version 0.34

SYNOPSIS

> cpanm --verbose 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

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.

Then in 2013, the distributions were reunified again, with each subset of modules as discrete sets of optional features. At installation time, you will be prompted to determine which sets you wish to install.

Recommended modules

Async Programming: Task::Kensho::Async

POE: Multitasking and networking framework for Perl

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

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

Config Modules: Task::Kensho::Config

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

Database Development: Task::Kensho::DBDev

DBD::SQLite: Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver
DBI: Database independent interface for Perl
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)

Date Modules: Task::Kensho::Dates

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

Email: Task::Kensho::Email

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

Excel/CSV: Task::Kensho::ExcelCSV

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

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.

Script Hackery: Task::Kensho::Hackery

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.
Smart::Comments: Comments that do more than just sit there
Term::ProgressBar::Simple: Simple progress bars

Logging: Task::Kensho::Logging

Log::Contextual: Log::Contextual is a simple interface to extensible logging. It is bundled with a really basic logger, Log::Contextual::SimpleLogger.
Log::Dispatch: This module manages a set of Log::Dispatch::* output objects that can be logged to via a unified interface.
Log::Log4perl: Log::Log4perl lets you remote-control and fine-tune the logging behaviour of your system from the outside. It implements the widely popular (Java-based) Log4j logging package in pure Perl.

Module Development: Task::Kensho::ModuleDev

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

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.

Scalability: Task::Kensho::Scalability

CHI: A unified cache interface, like DBI

Testing: Task::Kensho::Testing

Devel::Cover: Code coverage metrics for Perl
Test::Deep: Test deep data structures
Test::Fatal: Test exception-based code
Test::Memory::Cycle: Check for memory leaks and circular memory references
Test::Most: Most commonly needed test functions and features.
Test::NoWarnings: Ensure that no (unexpected) warnings occur during testing
Test::Pod: Check for POD errors in files
Test::Pod::Coverage: Check for pod coverage in your distribution.
Test::Requires: Make running a test conditional on a particular module being installed
Test::Simple: Basic utilities for writing tests.

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

Web Crawling: Task::Kensho::WebCrawling

HTTP::Lite: Lightweight HTTP client implementation
LWP::Simple: Simple procedural interface to LWP
LWP::UserAgent: Full-featured Web client library for Perl
WWW::Mechanize: Handy web browsing in a Perl object
WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder: This module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder.

Web Development: Task::Kensho::WebDev

CGI::FormBuilder::Source::Perl: Build CGI::FormBuilder configs from Perl syntax files.
MIME::Types: Definition of MIME types
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
XML::Atom: Atom feed and API implementation
XML::RSS: Creates and updates RSS files

XML Development: Task::Kensho::XML

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

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 necessarily 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 practice, 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>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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)