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Catalyst-Plugin-Log-Colorful (0.12)

This module is very useful: How often did I search Catalyst's logs for that entry I was interested in.

Now, a simple $c->log->color( $somthing, 'yellow' ) lets me easily pick the message from myriads of logs. And, I really like the feature of displaying a dump of $something if it's a reference - this is well thought as I would do this manually in most (if not all) cases.

Sometimes, all we need is some color *lilting*

Martin Gutsch - 2008-04-22 09:08:43
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XML-Compile (0.75)

This module definitely brings some fun to XML processing. Throw in a schema to compile and the XML of some API and get fine memory structures - and backwards. Works very fine and stable with an API of moderate complexity (cinema ticketing) I had to face a couple of months ago.

I have used XML::Schema before, but directly feeding a schema and getting a parser (precisely, a reader) out - as in XML::Compile::Schema got the work faster done. In fact, this module saved me from the very (boring) details of schemas. Thank you!

Installation on windows boxes can be tricky as like any modules that depend on libXML.

Martin Gutsch - 2008-04-12 05:57:16
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Crypt-ECB (1.40)

Works as expected with Crypt::Blowfish (I only tested this cipher).

Has nice convenience functionality like PADDING_AUTO and encrypt_hex for those who are not into pack and unpack (like me).

I had to use Blowfish ECB on order to access a credit card API.

Martin Gutsch - 2008-04-10 11:06:35
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Acme-Tiny (0.4)

Yeah cool! You caught them bourgeois ;-)

"Learn Perl[..]learn English". I can't stand an excellent programmer being so .. I can't find a word, I better improve my English, harhar.

Martin Gutsch - 2008-04-10 07:33:38
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Test-Deep (0.100)

This module does a great job. Usage is very straightforward and intuitive. Highly recommended to check if data structures look the way you expect them to.

Martin Gutsch - 2008-04-10 07:09:17
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Catalyst-Plugin-Assets (0.031)

I definitely recommend this module. The effect of javascript and CSS minification was big: In an app that uses a big bunch of js libraries and loads off css files, Catalyst-Plugin-Assets saved 150K(!) of definitions to be sent to the user, whose browser only has to load assets.js and assets.css instead of twenty-something individual files.

Use in conjunction with YUI-Compressor is highly recommended for best (and most compatible) results.

Martin Gutsch - 2008-03-14 07:41:47
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Catalyst-Controller-BindLex (0.03)

This is just so practical to use, although the interface as documented in the "Recipes" section of the docs could be somewhat more deatiled. But in general this module adds so beauty and clarity to my code.

Martin Gutsch - 2007-12-04 02:34:57
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Rose-DB-Object (0.765)

I came across this fine module while searching better ORM. Before using RDBO I used a very simple own one. I took a look at Class::DBI and found it too hard and too much typing to configure. Plain DBI was no longer an option over complexity.

Then RDBO came in and it was so clear how to config and fun to read the docs. Using RDBO I'm often blazed by the feature-richness, so things like Caching, lazy-loading and those things just work kind of out-of-the-box.

The only thing I'm sometimes worrying about are sometimes useless error messages that pop up upon misconfiguraion: So I know there is something wrong, but it's definitely not the "Can't call method "isa" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Rose/DB/Object/Metadata.pm line 2106" line that telles me where.

But if no typo is in the config, it works great.

Martin Gutsch - 2007-11-30 06:59:33
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