CPAN Reviews

CPAN Module Review: Test::Perl::Critic

Friday September 29, 2006 6:56PM

If you really want to make something a habit, find a way to do it without thinking about it. I like to automate the things I value so I never do them incorrectly, incompletely, or infrequently. Thus Test::Perl::Critic allows you to add customizable… chromatic

Please Stop Using Perl 3

Tuesday August 22, 2006 1:03PM

You frequently hear talk about how "Perl doesn't scale" and "Perl is write-only" and there's a bit of truth to that. You see, many programmers are still writing Perl 3 code. Now that might seem strange because people still talk… Curtis Poe

Perl Module Review: Class::Trait

Wednesday August 02, 2006 6:03PM

Object-oriented design has faltered somewhat on the overuse of inheritance and class hierarchies at the expense of polymorphism and true typed genericity. Traits and roles form one great approach to solving those problems in an efficient, resuable, and powerful way.… chromatic

CPAN Module Review: Class::MOP

Monday June 19, 2006 3:16PM

Perhaps my keenest frustration with Perl 5 is its lack of a clean metaprogramming facility. Stevan Little's Class::MOP has filled in much of the gap. Here's what I learned after playing with it for an afternoon. chromatic

CPAN Module Review: Data::Dump::Streamer

Thursday May 11, 2006 4:01PM

Working with complex, nested data structures takes practice and patience. It helps to be able to visualize your data. Data::Dumper is one of the oldest and most widely used modules because it does what it says -- it serializes a Perl data structure… chromatic

CPAN Module Review: Jifty::DBI

Friday March 17, 2006 2:53PM

chromatic reviews the Jifty::DBI CPAN distribution. chromatic

CPAN Module Review: KinoSearch

Thursday March 09, 2006 3:29PM

KinoSearch is a CPAN distribution that's a Perlish port of the powerful Apache Lucene search engine. (In one sense, it's a competitor to the earlier Plucene project.) Here's what I learned from playing with it one afternoon. chromatic

CPAN Module Review: XML::XPathEngine

Friday March 03, 2006 5:26PM

chromatic reviews the CPAN module XML::XPathEngine. chromatic