What's new on CPAN - March 2014

Apr 4, 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. March was a bumper month for CPAN uploads - a veritable treasure trove of new modules for you to try out. Enjoy!

APIs

Alien::Taco let’s you connect and interact with a Taco server
CPAN::Testers::WWW::Reports::Query::Report will fetch CPAN Testers reports - very cool. Long module name though, if that bothers you,have a look at Package::Abbreviate
Interact with the Yahoo! Query API using Business::YQL
The curiously named Devel::Chitin provides an API to the Perl debugger
Net::Graylog::Client is a Perl client for the open source graylog2 analysis and log server
Retrieve Google autosuggestions with WWW::Google::AutoSuggest

Apps

Quickly create command line apps with App::Basis
App::Cleo let’s you playback command line commands for slick live demos
Create your own self signed SSL certificates with App::CreateSelfSignedSSL
App::RecordStream::Bio enables easy processing of biology records
Swiftly build Debian packages from templates with App::makedpkg

Data

Looking for a mediocre caching module? Check out Cache::Meh
Looking for an efficient, mutable shared memory module? Have a look at Hash::SharedMem
DBIx::Raw aims to let you have an ORM-style interface with lower-level SQL querying - very interesting
Detect binary and string data using Data::Binary
Data::Censor can help you conveniently censor data
Dynamically generate permutations from nested data using Data::Tumbler
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckStrictVersion will validate your distribution version number on release
Auto-generate a DOAP file for your Perl distribution using Dist::Zilla::Plugin::DOAP
MySQL::Partition will create partitions using MySQL tables - interesting idea but author has labelled alpha so buyer beware
Easily parse XML/HTML with a simple markup language using XML::Dataset

Development & System Administration

Create a dashboard of information about CPAN distributions with CPAN::Dashboard
Devel::OverloadInfo lets you introspect overloaded operators
Dispatch::Profile is a simple messaging framework
Auto-increment your module version after every release with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::BumpVersionAfterRelease
Add a keywords entry to your module POD with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Keywords
Module::Spy monitors classes and objects method calls
Ban use of specific modules with Perl::Critic::Policy::logicLAB::ModuleBlacklist

Text & Languages

Detect if text is Japanese or not with AI::Classifier::Japanese
Convert::Number::Armenian will convert numerals between Armenian and Western representations
Working with anagrams? uoy hsuold oklo ta Lingua::Anagrams
If you’re working with Brazilian phone numbers, check out Number::Phone::BR

Maths & Science

Analyse MaxQuant protein group response differentials data with Bio::MaxQuant::ProteinGroups::Response
DSP::LinPred_XS is a lightning-fast XS implementation of the Least Mean Squared Algorithm
Simply Grammar::Graph objects using the aptly-named Grammar::Graph::Simplify
Math::Geometry::IntersectionArea will calculate the intersecting area of two geometric shapes
Conveniently manage the nginx FastCGI cache with Nginx::FastCGI::Cache
Set::Similarity provides several methods for measuring the similarity of 2 sets

Testing

Merge multiple streams of TAP with TAP::Stream - amazing
Test::RemoteServer bundles some convenient server testing methods

Web

Store your Dancer2 sessions in middleware with Dancer2::Session::PSGI
Mojolicious::Plugin::ConfigHashMerge enables deeply nested hash config files
View your app in a variety of screen sizes using Mojolicious::Plugin::Responsinator
Get an Apache-like scoreboard of your Mojolicious server with Mojolicious::Plugin::ServerStatus
WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS provides a Mechanize-style object of the PhantomJS headless browser … JavaScript enabled!

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