What's new on CPAN - December 2014

Jan 5, 2015 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 & Apps

• Easily setup a TCP proxy server for analyzing web traffic with App::tcpproxy
• App::Prove::Watch runs your unit tests every time your code changes
• Monitor Bitcoin prices from several sources using Finance::Bitcoin::Feed
• Net::Tesco provides a Perly API for Tesco, one of the World’s largest retailers
• WebService::Vultr is an API for the cloud server company
• If you use Instapaper, the bookmarking service, check outWebService::Instapaper

Config & DevOps

• Debug::Statements provides a convenient way of managing debug statements in code
• Log every time a Perl process starts using Devel::PerlLog
• There are already several Dist::Zilla plugins for auto-generating a distribution readme from pod, but Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Pod2Readme aims to be as simple as possible. Very useful for GitHub hosted distributions
• Add a timeout to command line prompts, including default options with IO::Prompt::Timeout
• Version::Compare can compare version numbers and determine which is greater
• Allow certain exceptions to not be caught using Try::Tiny::Except
• Regexp::SAR implements event handling on regexp matching conditions

Data

• Color::RGB::Util provides a bunch of useful functions for manipulating RGB colors
• Implement a circular list with Data::CircularList
• Data::Embed provides read / write accessors for data embedded in files
• Looking for a faster Excel reader? Check out Data::XLSX::Parser
• ETL::Yertl is a command line data ETL tool. At an early stage of development, but looks interesting
• Only access part of a file using IO::Slice
• SQL::Interpol can interpolate Perl variables into SQL queries
• PQL::Cache is an in-memory Perl database with many useful features

Math, Science & Language

• Geo::Coder::All is an all-in-one wrapper for geocoding data that works with Google, Bing, TomTom etc.
• Compare image hashes with Image::Hash. Very cool!
• Map::Metro is another implementation of public transport graphing with some useful features
• Safely truncate unicode text using Unicode::Truncate

Web

• Add an auto-timeout to your Dancer routes with Dancer::Plugin::TimeoutManager
• Lavoco::Website is an experimental micro web framework for hosting template toolkit templates
• Check if a URL is active with URL::Exists

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.