On 10/24/2013 1:56 PM, Michael R. Davis wrote:
>deal with for Perl. In our meetings, we focus on the big, powerful
>applications of Perl. We tend to ignore the little, useful scripts.
I use Perl for both major applications and minor scripts. Although I
tend to use the good old command line (e.g. find, sed and grep) for
most of what I would consider minor.
But, I think the real power of Perl comes from packages and CPAN.
However, with the right packages major scripts turn into minor ones.
We have a bunch of in-house packages some of which have been open
sourced at http://search.cpan.org/~mrdvt/
<http://search.cpan.org/%7Emrdvt/>.
Those modules are pretty cool.
Thanks for sharing.
I might try these:
Geo-Forward-0.14 <http://search.cpan.org/%7Emrdvt/Geo-Forward-0.14/>
Calculate geographic location from lat, lon, distance, and heading.
Geo-Inverse-0.05 <http://search.cpan.org/%7Emrdvt/Geo-Inverse-0.05/>
Calculate geographic distance from a lat & lon pair (I now use
Geo::Distance)
Geo-GoogleEarth-Document-0.11
<http://search.cpan.org/%7Emrdvt/Geo-GoogleEarth-Document-0.11/>
Generates GoogleEarth KML Documents
HTML-CalendarMonthSimple-1.26
<http://search.cpan.org/%7Emrdvt/HTML-CalendarMonthSimple-1.26/> Perl
Module for Generating HTML Calendars (I now use HTML::Calendar::Simple)
Mike
But, what I think would be the killer app of "Introductory Perl Help"
would be
1) What are the best CPAN packages to start my foundation upon?
2) How can I start my foundation with my own packages? (e.g. the
database connect package)
3) How can I convert my Perl packages into OS packages so that they
are always available (RPM, PPM, etc.)?
4) What are the lessons learned from others so that I hopefully won't
be in the same boat.
I think the CPAN indexer should have a place where I can list my
favorite CPAN packages. I'd start with Path::Class and DateTime.
I hope to make the meeting in December.
Thanks,
Mike
mrdvt92
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