Task::BeLike::LESPEA

# NAME

Task::BeLike::LESPEA - Modules that LESPEA uses on a daily basis

# VERSION

version 2.002000

## Data Parsing

Excel::Writer::XLSX

  Modern XLSX writer

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

  Read Microsoft xls files

Spreadsheet::Read

  Write a wide variety of 'spreadsheets'

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

  Write Microsoft xls files

Spreadsheet::XLSX

  Legacy XLSX writer

Text::CSV_XS

  Parse CSV files, no matter how borked up they are

## Database

DBD::CSV

  Treat a CSV like a database

DBI

  Base database handler

## Dates

Date::Calc

  Perform date calculations

Date::Manip

  Work with dates

DateTime

  Base date object

DateTime::Format::DB2

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::DBI

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::DateManip

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::DateParse

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Duration

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Duration::DurationString

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Duration::XSD

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::DotNet

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::JD

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::Lilian

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::MJD

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::RJD

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::RataDie

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::TAI64

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::TJD

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Excel

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Flexible

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::HTTP

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Human

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Human::Duration

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::ICal

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::ISO8601

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::MSSQL

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::MySQL

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Aliases

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Calc

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Compat

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Duration

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Duration::Checks

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Expand

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Extract

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Formatted

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Helpers

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::Base

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Rewrite

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Test

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Utils

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Natural::Wrappers

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Oracle

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Pg

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::RFC3339

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::RFC3501

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::RSS

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Roman

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::SQLite

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Strptime

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Sybase

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::Variant

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::W3CDTF

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::WindowsFileTime

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::XMLTV

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::XSD

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

DateTime::Format::x509

  Convert various strings to datetime objects

## Development

Data::Printer

  Very nice object printer

Devel::Cover

  Make sure we test all our functions

Devel::NYTProf

  Best profiler available! (by far)

Devel::REPL

  Nicely interact with perl

Devel::REPL::Plugin::DataPrinter

  Let us use a nice object printer

Module::Refresh

  Reload a module from disk

Module::Reload

  Reload a module from disk

Perl::Critic

  Check our files for best practices

Perl::Tidy

  Generate nice looking perl

## Dist::Zilla

Dist::Zilla

  Base dist module

Dist::Zilla::App::Command::cover

  Lets us easily check the test coverage

Dist::Zilla::App::Command::perltidy

  Lets us pretty up our code

Dist::Zilla::App::Command::shell

  Provides an interactive dzil shell

Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::LESPEA

  My dzil config

Dist::Zilla::Shell

  Provides an interactive dzil shell

## Error Checking

Try::Tiny

  At least some basic error checking

autodie

  Smart failures in the event a file/dir read/write fails - automagic!

## File handling

File::HomeDir

  Makes getting files out of the users' home directory super easy

File::Next

  Iterate over files

File::ShareDir

  Auto store/fetch files in the current modules' "private" folder structure once it's installed

## HTML stuff

Encode

  Encoding helper

HTML::Entities

  Help us with html entities

HTML::Tree

  Build a huge tree out of the HTML Dom

HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath

  Do some xpath lookups for an HTML tree

LWP

  Get stuff from the internet

LWP::Protocol::https

  Connecto to https sites

PPI::HTML

  Turn perl into a nice html page

Template

  Template module for generating files safely

WWW::Mechanize

  Automate website crawling

## Installers

Exporter::Easy

  Makes exporting functions a snap

Module::Build

  Pure perl installer

Module::Install

  Extension of MakeMaker

Module::Install::AuthorTests

  Run author tests

Module::Install::ExtraTests

  Run extra tests

## JSON

JSON

  Basic perl module to parse JSON

JSON::Any

  Auto use the best available JSON module

JSON::XS

  Fast C module to parse JSON

## Math

Math::Big

  Easily compute math with big ints

Math::Big::Factors

  Compute factors of a number

## Moose

Any::Moose

  Use either moose or mouse

Getopt::Long::Descriptive

  Required for MooseX::App::Cmd

Moose

  Base moose module

Moose::Meta::Attribute::Native

  Treat attributes like they were native objects

MooseX::Aliases

  Make it easier to create objects

MooseX::App

  Turn your object(s) into an app

MooseX::App::Cmd

  Extend your moose object as a script

MooseX::Log::Log4perl

  Easy logging injector

MooseX::Method::Signatures

  Adds greate parameter varification to methods (with a performance price)

MooseX::Singleton

  Easily create a singleton object (good for caches)

MooseX::StrictConstructor

  Ensure passed hash items are valid attributes

MooseX::Types

  Basic moose types

MooseX::Types::Common

  As it sounds, common types for Moose

MooseX::Types::Common::Numeric

  As it sounds, common numeric types for Moose

MooseX::Types::Common::String

  As it sounds, common string types for Moose

MooseX::Types::DateTime::ButMaintained

  Datetime type

MooseX::Types::Email

  Contains an email address

MooseX::Types::IPv4

  IP Address

MooseX::Types::JSON

  A JSON string

MooseX::Types::NetAddr::IP

  Alternative to IPv4

MooseX::Types::PortNumber

  A valid port number

MooseX::Types::Structured

  Lets you write enforce structured attributes better than base Moose

MooseX::Types::URI

  A valid URI address string

MooseX::Types::UUID

  A valid UUID string

MouseX::Types

  Basic mouse types

## Networking

Net::CIDR::Lite

  Great CIDR calculation tool

Net::DNS

  Do some DNS lookups

Net::IP

  Manip IP address

Net::Netmask

  Yet another IP manip tool

Net::Ping

  Simple pinger

## Testing

Test::Fatal

  Make sure something dies okay

Test::File

  Test a file for wanted attributes

Test::LeakTrace

  Don't leak memory

Test::Memory::Cycle

  Make sure you don't have any cyclical data structures

Test::Most

  A whole bunch of tests modules

Test::Output

  Make sure a script outputs the correct values

Test::Perl::Critic

  Follow best practices

Test::Pod

  Ensures your POD compiles ok

Test::Pod::Coverage

  Make sure you document all of your functions

Test::Taint

  Ensure taint handling is done correctly

## Threading

AnyEvent

  Use whatever event module is best

Async::Interrupt

  Thread helper

Coro

  The best threading module out there

EV

  Enhanced event handling module

Event

  Basic event handling module

Guard

  Thread helper

## Utils

File::Slurp

  Read in an entire file all at once

IO::Scalar

  Turn scalars into io objects

List::AllUtils

  For those of us that can't remember which one to use

List::Gen

  Very good list processing helper

List::MoreUtils

  Provides some advanced-ish list utilities

Locale::US

  Some handy locales for America

Modern::Perl

  Turn on new features

Readonly::XS

  Marks variables readonly... better than constant for some things

Regexp::Common

  A ton of precompiled regular expressions

Scalar::Util

  Additional scalar helpers

Task::Weaken

  Let us create weak objects

Text::Trim

  Enhanced trimming capabilities

autovivification

  Makes working with hashes easier

namespace::autoclean

  Cleans up the namespace of your modules

## XML

XML::LibXML

  Base XML module

XML::SAX

  Stream handling

XML::Simple

  Even more simple than twig

XML::Twig

  Make XML easy

## YAML

YAML

  Basic perl module to parse YAML

YAML::Any

  Auto use the best available YAML module

YAML::Syck

  Another fast module to parse YAML

YAML::XS

  Fast C module to parse JSON

# INSTALLATION

See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

# AUTHOR

Adam Lesperance <lespea@gmail.com>

# SUPPORT

## Perldoc

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

      perldoc Task::BeLike::LESPEA

## Websites

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

- MetaCPAN

  A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.

  http://metacpan.org/release/Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- Search CPAN

  The default CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker

  The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- AnnoCPAN

  The AnnoCPAN is a website that allows community annotations of Perl module documentation.

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- CPAN Ratings

  The CPAN Ratings is a website that allows community ratings and reviews of Perl modules.

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- CPAN Forum

  The CPAN Forum is a web forum for discussing Perl modules.

  http://cpanforum.com/dist/Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- CPANTS

  The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.

  http://cpants.perl.org/dist/overview/Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- CPAN Testers

  The CPAN Testers is a network of smokers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.

  http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/T/Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- CPAN Testers Matrix

  The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.

  http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Task-BeLike-LESPEA

- CPAN Testers Dependencies

  The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.

  http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Task::BeLike::LESPEA

## Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to `bug-task-belike-lespea at rt.cpan.org`, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Task-BeLike-LESPEA. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

## Source Code

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

https://github.com/lespea/task-belike-lespea

      git clone git://github.com/lespea/task-belike-lespea.git

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Adam Lesperance.

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

# DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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