What's new on CPAN - February 2014

Mar 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. Enjoy!

APIs

• Interact with AWS Simple Queue Services using: AWS::SQS::Simple
• Dokuwiki::RPC::XML::Client is a client for DokuWiki
• Access the CampBX bitcoin trading platform using Finance::CampBX
• InfluxDB is a time series database, InfluxDB provides a Perl API.
• Sync files between machines using using BitTorrent Sync and Net::BitTorrentSync
• WebService::ImKayac::Simple is a message sender for im.kayac, the notification service
• Manage workflow jobs using CA::WAAE - an interface for CA’s Workflow Automation product

Apps

• Buid static web sites with App::Dapper
• Prettify JSON, YAML and Perl data and translate into other languages with pretty

Bots

• Fly the Parrot AR.Drone using UAV::Pilot::ARDrone

Data

• Gnuplot::Builder is an OO library for the gnuplot
• Share data efficiently between processes using Hash::SharedMem
• Image::Quantize will quantize image data into 256 or fewer colours
• Build JSON under memory constraints with JSON::Builder
• Generate random Japanese names using Mock::Person::JP

Development & System Administration

Find all CPAN modules that reference a particular CPAN module with CPAN::ReverseDependencies

warnings::MaybeFatal will turn warnings FATAL at compile time only

IPC::PrettyPipe facilitates debugging and execution piped commands.

A whole host of new Dist::Zilla validation plugins:

• Check for plugins performing actions outside of the appropriate phase with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::VerifyPhases
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::DiagINC helps you find the @INC dependencies for a specific test failure
• Check for clean namespaces: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::CleanNamespaces
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Breaks tracks breaking module versions as metadata and Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::CheckBreaks tests for breaks

Fun

• Obfuscate text in the style of the Zalgo meme: Acme::Zalgo
• SudokuTrainer helps detect successful Sudoku strategies

Maths & Science

• AI::FANN::Evolving is an evolving artificial neural implementation class for the Fast Artificial Neural Network library.

Security

• Crypt::Curve25519 will generate a shared secret using an elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman function, for message encryption.
• Crypt::Lucifer is an implementation of IBM’s Lucifer block cipher from the 1970s.
• Enable ScryptKDF in DBIx::Class with DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn::Crypt::Scrypt

Testing

• Test::Cucumber::Tiny is a lightweight, plaintext-driven testing framework
• Conveniently manage the state of DBIx::Class test data with DBIx::Class::EasyFixture
• Test::DiagINC will list all (deep) dependencies on test failure
• Create a temporary instance of MongoDb for testing with Test::mongod

Web

HTTP::Entity::Parser is a PSGI compliant HTTP entity parser

Add a timeout and retry feature to HTTP::Tiny using HTTP::Retry

Make Catalyst user notification handling easier with Catalyst::Plugin::SimpleMessage

Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::CHI let’s you use the CHI module as the session store.

Plack::Middleware::LightProfile is a simple profiler for Plack applications.

Dump the Apache server scoreboard when full with Apache2::ScoreboardDumper

New Mojolicious modules:

• Mojo::FriendFeed is a non blocking FriendFeed listener
• Run a generic TCP server with Mojo::Server::TCP
• Defer template rendering with MojoX::Renderer::IncludeLater a template post-processor
• Mojolicious::Plugin::VHost adds virtual hosts to Mojolicious

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