[pm-h] Introductory Perl Help

[Mike Flannigan]

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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