What's new on CPAN - February 2018
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
- Net::SPID provides an interface to the Italian digital identity system
- SMS::Send::NANP::Twilio can send SMS via Twilio
- Interact with Extreme Networking products over Telnet, SSH or Serial port using Control::CLI::Extreme
Config & Devops
- Figure out the default settings for an Apache httpd daemon using Apache::Defaults
- Config::AWS can parse the INI-like AWS config files
- IO::ReadHandle::Include can read files with
#include
directives - Module::FromPerlVer manages modules by Perl version
Data
- Break up large database queries into batches using DBIx::BatchChunker
- Data::Visitor::Tiny recursively walks data structures
- Get a DWIM JSON parser with JSON::ize
- Turn DBIx::Class results into JSON API documents using JSONAPI::Document
- Pod::Term is another pod parser borne out of need. Last time I checked Pod::Simple still had code called “blackbox”
- Transform CSV files into pivot-style tables with Text::CSV::Pivot
- Pg::ServiceFile is a PostgreSQL connection service file interface
- PostgreSQL connection service file parser: Config::Pg::ServiceFile
- Another XKCD-style password generator, perhaps better than others though: CtrlO::Crypt::XkcdPassword
Development & Version Control
- Add Design By Contract รก la Eiffel with Class::DbC
- Generate a GUI from a text design using GUIDeFATE
- Back up your repositories, issues, gists and more with Github::Backup
- Try to Do the Right Thing ™ when opening files with Open::This
- Parallel::Subs is a simple way to run subs in parallel and process their return value in perl. Let’s hope Storable is fast enough!
- Term::CLI is a command line interpreter based on Term::ReadLine
- Unix::Groups::FFI provides an interface to Unix group syscalls
Web
- A client for talking with the Transmission BitTorrent daemon: Mojo::Transmission
- Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONAPI is a Mojo plugin for building JSON API-compliant applications
- Plack::Auth::SSO is a role for middleware Single Sign On (SSO) authentication
- Measure HTTP stats on each request with Plack::Middleware::StatsPerRequest
- URI::Fast is a fast(er) URI parser
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