What's new on CPAN - November 2015

Dec 8, 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. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::Highlander can provides simple named locks. Useful!
• Pick one or more random lines from input using App::PickRandomLines
• A “Random Access Machine” Emulator: Language::RAM
• Sync data across multiple regions with Net::Amazon::DynamoDB::HighlyAvailable
• Net::Amazon::DynamoDB::Table provides a high-level interface to Net::Amazon::DyamoDB::Lite
• WWW::KeenIO provides a Perl API for the event storage and analytics service
• WWW::Saucelabs is a “perilously incomplete”, yet useful, Perly interface to the Saucelabs REST API
• Find out what’s on TV using the TVMaze API and WWW::TVMaze
• WebService::Zendesk is another work-in-progress but useful API, this time for Zendesk

Config & Devops

• Net::FTPTLS is a super-simple Perl FTP client with TLS support. Cool!
• Net::SSH2::Cisco let’s you talk to Cisco routers via SSH!
• Configure, control and monitor rate limits for services with RateLimitations

Data

• Compress data at outrageous speeds with Compress::LZ4Frame, which ships with the LZ4 compression library written in C.
• DBIx::BulkUtil provides bulk load and other features for relational databases
• Wow, DOM::Tiny is a minimalist but feature-rich DOM parser using CSS selectors
• Interesting, play with a virtual file system using Filesys::Virtual::Chroot
• IMAP::Query can generateIMAP search queries
• Mail::DKIM::Iterator validates DKIM signatures and signs asynchronously

Development & Version Control

• Devel::Trepan::Deparse adds deparse support to Devel::Trepan
• Call the JavaScript Handlebars template library from Perl, with JavaScript::V8::Handlebars
• Test some? Only execute a subset of your test suite using Test::Some, author Yanick blogged about why this might be useful
• Unix::Pledge restrict system operations on BSD using pledge
• Talk to Windows machines over the network using Win32::Netsh

Hardware

Paul Evans has been hard at work releasing several new chip driver modules, way to go Paul!

• BV4243 Device::Chip::BV4243
• DS1307 Device::Chip::DS1307
• INA219 Device::Chip::INA219
• MAX7219 Device::Chip::MAX7219
• MCP23x17 family Device::Chip::MCP23x17
• MPL3115A2 Device::Chip::MPL3115A2

Other

• Generate CSS sprites from a series of images using CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple
• Look up zodiac sign for a given date with Zodiac::Tiny

Science & Mathematics

• LCS::Similar allows differences in the compared elements of Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) Algorithm
• Simulate genomic restriction digests with RestrictionDigest

Web

• Catalyst::Plugin::URI provides nicer and safer way to get Controller action methods as URIs
• Read and write PhantomJS cookies file using HTTP::Cookies::PhantomJS
• Mojolicious::Plugin::ErrorsAndWarnings stores errors and warnings during a request for powerful introspection
• Run a consul server for testing using Test::Consul

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.