NAME

Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl

VERSION

This document describes Task::Kensho version 0.11

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 reccomended 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 Enlightned 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.

Basic Toolchain

Bundle::CPAN: Bundle to optimize the behaviour of CPAN.pm
local::lib: Create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB
version: Perl extension for Version Objects

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

Object Oriented Programming

Moose: A postmodern object system for Perl 5
MooseX::Types: Organise your Moose types in libraries
Moose::Autobox: Autoboxed wrappers for Native Perl datatypes
MooseX::Aliases: Easy aliasing of methods and attributes in Moose
MooseX::Storage: An serialization framework for Moose classes
MooseX::Getopt: A Moose role for processing command line options
MooseX::SimpleConfig: A Moose role for setting attributes from a simple configfile
MooseX::StrictConstructor: Make your object constructors blow up on unknown attributes
namespace::autoclean: Keep imports and functions out of your namespace

Asynchronous Programming

POE: Multitasking and networking framework for Perl

XML Development

XML::LibXML: Perl Binding for libxml2
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

Catalyst: The Elegant MVC Web Application Framework
Catalyst::View::TT: Template View Class
Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema: DBIx::Class::Schema Model Class
Catalyst::Devel: Catalyst Development Tools
Catalyst::Plugin::Session: Generic Session plugin - ties together server side storage and client side state required to maintain session data.
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication: Infrastructure plugin for the Catalyst authentication framework
Catalyst::Plugin::StackTrace: Display a stack trace on the debug screen
Catalyst::Plugin::FillInForm: Fill forms automatically, based on data from a previous HTML form.
Catalyst::Controller::FormBuilder: Create and validate forms in Catalyst
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::State::Cookie: Maintain session IDs using cookies.
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBIC: Store your sessions via DBIx::Class
Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple: Make serving static pages painless.
Catalyst::View::JSON: Serve JSON through Catalyst

Web Crawling

Bundle::LWP: Install all libwww-perl related modules
LWP::Simple: Simple procedural interface to LWP
WWW::Mechanize: Handy web browsing in a Perl object

Database Development

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

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

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

Date Modules

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

Config Modules

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

Useful Command-line Tools

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

Script 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 practicies, 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)