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DashProfiler (1.13)

Simple, flexible and blindingly fast code profiling system. Stupidly useful. Thoroughly recommended.

Adrian Howard - 2008-05-08 09:29:35
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App-Asciio (0.95_01)

ASCII Art Visio - it rocks!

Adrian Howard - 2008-04-09 00:49:29
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YAML-Tiny (1.25)

It's lightweight. It does what it says on the tin. The bugs I report get fixed. I like it :-)

Adrian Howard - 2008-03-20 04:17:00
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SVN-Notify (2.70)

It sends commit messages. You can make them pretty. You can configure the heck out of it. Is good.

Adrian Howard - 2008-03-12 16:20:23
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Geo-Postcode (0.15)

Nice API, and would be a pleasure to use if it didn't reject some valid postcodes - hence the low rating. Would be a five otherwise.

There is an outstanding RT issue with a patch for the problem since 2006 :-)

Adrian Howard - 2007-05-10 04:37:05
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Rose-DB-Object (0.763)

Clean. Elegant. Fast. So far every time I've looked for a bit of functionality it's been there hiding in the docs. Thoroughly recommended.

Adrian Howard - 2007-02-27 02:25:01
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Rose-DB (0.733)

Nice abstraction for handling database handles. Being able to register multiple DBHs for live/testing/etc. is a boon.

Adrian Howard - 2007-02-27 02:22:34
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ack (1.58)

This rocks. Just removed a bunch of awk/sed/find/grep alias in my *.rc files since this handles them all much more nicely. Huzzah.

Adrian Howard - 2007-02-27 02:21:28
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Class-InsideOut (1.00)

I like this rather a lot. A nice minimal implementation of inside out objects that doesn't get in the way, and doesn't force you to recast your entire OO infrastructure. No source filters, CHECK blocks, etc. so works fine with mod_perl. Nice.

Adrian Howard - 2006-05-13 03:23:27
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Test-Exception (0.21)

Just a quick comment that you can use Test::Exception without prototypes if you so wish, and since 0.21 this is documented in the POD.

Adrian Howard - 2005-07-21 10:00:08
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Mac-Growl (0.62)

Growl is a rather funky open-source notification framework for Mac OS X. There are several different possible ways of talking to Growl via Perl (Applescript, command line, etc.) and Mac::Growl does a good job of hiding all of this behind a single API. Nice.

Adrian Howard - 2005-03-16 08:04:30
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Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-Simple (1.01)

A simplified subset of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel functionality.

For many real world tasks with Excel spreadsheets all you need to do is read rows of data from sheets. This module provides a clean and simple API for doing just that.

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Adrian Howard - 2004-09-01 05:36:09
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Test-Pod (1.02)

Handy module for testing that your POD is syntactically correct. Reduced my POD test file from 40 odd lines of code to just 4.

Adrian Howard - 2003-11-24 08:55:44
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Sub-Uplevel (0.08)

Allows you to pretend to run a function in a higher stack frame. Useful for wrapping subroutines so that they don't realise that they're wrapped.

Adrian Howard - 2003-10-24 14:54:02
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Module-Build (0.21)

Replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Very nice. If you need to write custom build scripts try this instead of ExtUtils::MakeMaker. It's 100% Perl OO architecture makes everything so much more simple.

Adrian Howard - 2003-10-16 01:18:22
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Pod-Coverage (0.12)

Nice module that allows you to check whether your subroutines are documented with POD. Very useful in test suites to make sure you keep everything documented.

Adrian Howard - 2003-10-01 06:34:20
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Exception-Class (1.15)

Allows you to declare multiple exception classes concisely. API documented well. Easy to override default behaviour when you need to.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-18 09:38:50
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Test-Deep (0.08)

Handy for testing complex data structures.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-10 12:39:40
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File-Find-Rule (0.20)

Does the job and doesn't suck. Excellent module.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-09 06:40:01
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Test-DatabaseRow (1.01)

Handy module for testing contents of database rows.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-07 15:03:31
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DBD-Pg (1.22)

Excellent module. Does the job.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-03 09:51:32
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Test-Warn (0.08)

Handy module for unit testing code that may throw warnings.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-02 09:30:46
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CGI-Kwiki (0.17)

Very nice Wiki implementation. Very easy to setup. Very easy to customise.

The only thing I miss is an RSS view of recent changes.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-01 08:13:28
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Acme-JAPH (0.03)

It's a joke. Not a very good one mind, but a joke.

Adrian Howard - 2003-09-01 01:31:23
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Template-Extract (0.11)

Very nice tool for generating simple parsers / screen scrapers. You write a template toolkit template that would generate your content (using a subset of TT commands) and Template::Extract does the rest.

Most funky.

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-31 09:31:24
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Data-UUID (0.11)

Very handy module for creating globally unique identifiers. Simple. Does the job.

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-28 03:23:41
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XML-RSS (1.02)

Excellent module for those who need to export various syndication formats. Supports RSS 0.9, 0.91 and RSS 1.0

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-28 03:17:38
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Mail-CheckUser (1.19)

Nice alternative to Email::Valid that provides several more mechanisms for validating email addresses.

Loses a few points on the interface since package behaviour is controlled by global variables, which can make it a bit of a pain in persistent environments like mod_perl.

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-22 04:00:25
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list (1.0.1)

No documentation. Covers some of the same ground as List::Util.

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-21 07:25:51
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Module-Info (0.21)

Handy little module for getting meta-data on a module (version, etc.)

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-16 02:13:55
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WWW-Mechanize (0.58)

Really excellent tool. I find it invaluable for writing acceptance tests for web based applications.

My only (minor) quibble is the lack of support for multiple submit buttons with the same name (see http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2308), which can occasionally be annoying.

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-15 06:13:15
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Template-Toolkit (2.10)

Powerful enough to get the job done. Simple enough not to get in your way. Very easy to customise. My favourite templating system.

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-13 14:16:18
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Test-Simple (0.47)

The foundation of all recent Perl test libraries. Simple. Flexible. Nice design. Everybody should use it.

Adrian Howard - 2003-08-13 14:11:01
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