NAME

       Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl

VERSION

       version 0.39

SYNOPSIS

           # apt-get install libtask-kensho-all-perl

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 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.  Each Task::Kensho sub-task is listed at the beginning of its section
       in this documentation.

       When installing Task::Kensho in Debian GNU/Linux, you can install each sub-task
       metapackage separately (e.g. libtask-kensho-async-perl), or you can install all tasks at
       once by installing the libtask-kensho-all-perl metapackage.  These metapackages facilitate
       the ease and simplicity the distribution aims to achieve whilst utilising the power of the
       Debian GNU/Linux package system.

RECOMMENDED MODULES

   Task::Kensho::Async: Async Programming
       IO::Async

       Asynchronous event-driven programming

       POE

       Multitasking and networking framework for Perl

   Task::Kensho::CLI: 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

   Task::Kensho::Config: Config Modules
       Config::Any

       Load configuration from different file formats, transparently

       Config::General

       Generic Config Module

       JSON::MaybeXS

       wrapper around the most current and fast JSON backends

   Task::Kensho::DBDev: Database Development
       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)

   Task::Kensho::Dates: Date Modules
       Date::Tiny

       A date object with as little code as possible

       DateTime

       A date and time object

       DateTime::Tiny

       A date time 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

   Task::Kensho::Email: 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

   Task::Kensho::ExcelCSV: Excel/CSV
       Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple

       A simple interface to Excel data

       Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple

       Create Excel documents easily

       Text::CSV_XS

       Manipulate comma-separated values (CSV)

   Task::Kensho::Exceptions: Exception Handling
       Try::Tiny

       Lightweight exception handling that handles the vagaries of $@.

       autodie

       Make builtins and other functions die instead of returning undef on failure.

   Task::Kensho::Hackery: 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.

       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

   Task::Kensho::Logging: 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.

   Task::Kensho::ModuleDev: Module Development
       CPAN::Uploader

       Upload things to the CPAN

       Data::Printer

       Colored pretty-print of Perl data structures and objects

       Devel::Confess

       Include stack traces on all warnings and errors

       Devel::Dwarn

       Combine warns and Data::Dumper::Concise

       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::Build::Tiny

       A simple, lightweight, drop-in replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

       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

   Task::Kensho::OOP: Object Oriented Programming
       Moo

       Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)

       Moose

       a postmodern object system for Perl5

       MooseX::Aliases

       easy aliasing of methods and attributes in Moose

       MooseX::Getopt

       a Moose role for processing command line options

       MooseX::NonMoose

       easy subclassing of non-Moose classes

       MooseX::Role::Parameterized

       Moose roles with composition parameters

       MooseX::SimpleConfig

       a Moose role for setting attributes from a simple configuration file

       MooseX::StrictConstructor

       a Moose extension that makes your object constructors blow up on unknown attributes

       Package::Variant

       Parameterizable packages

       Task::Moose

       Task::Moose installs Moose and optionally a list of recommended modules that extend Moose.

       Type::Tiny

       tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraints

       namespace::autoclean

       keep imports out of your namespace (Moose-aware)

   Task::Kensho::Scalability: Scalability
       CHI

       A unified cache interface, like DBI

       Redis

       Perl binding for Redis database

   Task::Kensho::Testing: 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::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.

       Test::Warnings

       Test for warnings and the lack of them

   Task::Kensho::Toolchain: Basic Toolchain
       App::FatPacker

       Pack your dependencies onto your script file

       App::cpanminus

       Get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN

       App::perlbrew

       Manage perl installations in your $HOME

       CPAN::Mini

       Create a minimal mirror of CPAN

       Carton

       Perl module dependency manager (aka Bundler for Perl)

       Pinto

       Curate a repository of Perl modules

       local::lib

       Create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB

       version

       Perl extension for Version Objects

   Task::Kensho::WebCrawling: Web Crawling
       HTTP::Thin

       A Thin Wrapper around HTTP::Tiny to play nice with HTTP::Message

       HTTP::Tiny

       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.

       WWW::Selenium

       Perl Client for the Selenium Remote Control test tool

   Task::Kensho::WebDev: Web Development
       CGI::FormBuilder::Source::Perl

       Build CGI::FormBuilder configs from Perl syntax files.

       Dancer2

       the new generation of Dancer, a lightweight yet powerful web application framework

       HTML::FormHandler

       HTML forms using Moose

       MIME::Types

       Definition of MIME types

       Mojolicious

       Real-time web framework

       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

       (Template::Toolkit) Template Processing System

       XML::Atom

       Atom feed and API implementation

       XML::RSS

       Creates and updates RSS files

   Task::Kensho::XML: XML Development
       RDF::Trine

       An RDF Framework for Perl

       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

INSTALLING

       To install all Task::Kensho tasks and their recommended modules on Debian GNU/Linux,
       install the libtask-kensho-all-perl metapackage:

           # apt-get install libtask-kensho-all-perl

       Each Kensho task is itself a metapackage. To install a specific task, install the relevant
       metapackage. E.g. for Task::Kensho::Async:

           # apt-get install libtask-kensho-async-perl

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.

SEE ALSO

       <http://www.enlightenedperl.org/>, Perl::Dist::Strawberry

SUPPORT

       bugs may be submitted through
       <https://github.com/EnlightenedPerlOrganisation/task-kensho/issues>.

       There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#epo" on
       "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#epo>.

AUTHOR

       Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

       •   Chris Nehren <apeiron@cpan.org>

       •   Leo Lapworth <leo@cuckoo.org>

       •   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

       •   Andrew Whatson <whatson@gmail.com>

       •   Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

       This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Chris Prather.

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