What's new on CPAN - September 2014

Oct 3, 2014 by David Farrell

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure.

APIs

• Untappd::API provides a Perl interface to the beer drinking social network
• ComXo::Call2 looks interesting, appears to be an API to a switchboard telco service

Apps

• cpan-outdated-coro is a faster version of the useful cpan-outdated app
• Easily get the directory of an installed Perl module with pmdir e.g: $ cd $( pmdir Moose )
• App::sslmaker helps you create your own SSL certificates
• Get a weather report at the terminal using App::wu (disclosure - I am the module author). If you live in Japan you may be interested in the new module WWW::Livedoor::Weather instead

Async & Concurrency

• Net::DNS::Native is a shiny new non-blocking DNS resolver
• Scalar::Watcher is very interesting: allows you to monitor a variable for changes and invoke a function when they occur

Data

• Wow - parse card magnetic strip data with Card::Magnetic
• Data::Partial::Google filters partial data structures “Google style”
• Tie a hash or array to an INI file with INI_File
• MySQL::Warmer will warm up your MySQL server! (populates the cache I think)
• Data::Bitfield makes it easier to manage low level data bit encoding integers (bitfields).
• Quickly clean up string data with Str::Filter. It provides a collection of useful functions for sprucing up strings

Config & DevOps

• Rex::JobControl is a web interface for Rex, the Perl based DevOps tool. Also check out their beautiful website.
• Search for and load modules at runtime with Plugin::Loader
• Path::Extended::Tiny wraps the wonderful Path::Tiny module with methods from Path::Extended

Math, Science & Language

• Math::Shape::Vector is a 2d vector library, intended for games programming (disclosure - I am the module author).
• Text::IQ is a fabulous module for analysing text - it returns basic stats about the text as well as flesch, kincaid and fog scores.

Hardware

• New Bus Pirate modules! Interact with Chip::nRF24L01P and Chip::AVR_HVSP

Object Oriented

• Module::Runtime’s recent release broke some versions of Moose. Not to worry, check for conflicts with Module::Runtime::Conflicts
• Object::Util provides a collection of utility

Web

• Limper is interesting - a dependency free, lightweight web framework
• New user agents! LWP::Simple::REST exports RESTful request methods for LWP and Net::HTTP::Client is a lightweight user agent in the vein of HTTP::Tiny
• Conveniently create and verify secure messages using PBKDF2::Tiny
• Find out your IP address with WWW::IP (disclaimer - I am the module author)
• WebService::Client is a role that makes it easy to quickly churn out a web service client

Testing & Exceptions

• Test::NoOverride is very cool - it implements a test for overridden methods, with some sensible defaults

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.