What's new on CPAN - June 2014

Jul 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.

APIs

• Get a REST API for your database with Cookieville
• Device::SaleaeLogic provides a Perl interface to Saleae Logic devices
• Etcd is a Perl API for etcd, a key value store
• Geo::Coder::OpenCage is a Perl API for OpenCage a geocoding service
• Math::OEIS provides an interface to Online Encyclopaedia of Integer Sequences. Who knew there was such a thing!
• Net::PMP is an interface for the Public Media Platform
• Manage GNU Screen windows easily with Term::GnuScreen::WindowArrayLike
• WWW::Spotify provide an interface to the Spotify API
• Interact with a RabbitMQ broker using WWW::RabbitMQ::Broker
• WWW::GoKGS is a scraper for the KGS Go server
• WebService::Amazon::Route53::Caching implements a caching layer for the Amazon Route 53 DNS service
• Send error reports to raygun.io from your Plack middleware with Plack::Middleware::Raygun

Apps

• Run CPANTS Kwalitee tests on your distribution with App::CPANTS::Lint
• App::Goto::Amazon provides a shortcut command for connecting to Amazon EC2 instances
• App::HPGL2Cadsoft converts HPGL files to Cadsoft Eagle script (a circuit board design tool)

Data

• AnyEvent::Pg::Pool::Multiserver let’s you make asynchronous DB calls to multiple Postgres servers, using AnyEvent::Pg
• Convert CSS into a Regexp::Grammar parse tree with CSS::Selector::Grammar
• Run massive numbers of insert and update statements on a MySQL database using DBIx::TxnPool
• Deeme is a “Database-agnostic driven Event Emitter” with support for multiple backends
• Auto-release your distributions to Stratopan with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UploadToStratopan
• Lookup USA state names and capitals with Geo::States
• MySQL::Explain::Parser converts MySQL’s explain output into Perl

Development & System Administration

• DBG provides a collection of useful debugging functions for Perl code
• Another useful debugging too: get a stack trace for all system calls with Devel::Trace::Syscall
• Quickly generate Perl data structures using Data::Random::Structure
• MooseX::AuthorizedMethodRoles provides role checking through whitelist methods
• Get Pango constants without the heft of Glib and Gtk2 libraries with PangoConst
• Sort::Key::Domain sorts domain names
• Get Jenkins compatible TAP test output with TAP::Formatter::Jenkins
• Test::RequiresInternet will check for Internet connectivity before running tests - very useful.

Fun

• Looking for the gramatically correct version of “Buffalo buffalo …”? Look no further because Acme::Buffalo::Buffalo has got you covered
• Acme::MilkyHolmes provides character information on the famous Japanese animated cartoon
• Games::Go::Referee analyses sgf files for Go rule violations

Web

Conveniently run A/B testing on CGI applications with CGI::Application::Plugin::AB

CGI::Application::Plugin::Throttle implements a throttling function for users (identifies by IP address)

Avoid connecting to blacklisted URLs with HTTP::Tiny::Paranoid

New Dancer modules:

• Dancer::Plugin::CORS configures cross-origin sharing rules
• Dancer::Plugin::Negotiate wraps HTTP::Negotiate
• Dancer::Plugin::Swig implements a Swig wrapper

New Mojolicious modules:

• Mojolicious::Plugin::Logf flattens and logs complex data structures using sprintf
• Mojolicious::Plugin::MoreUtilHelpers implements some utility methods
• Mojolicious::Plugin::NetsPayment is an experimental module for making payments using Nets
• Mojolicious::Plugin::PayPal is an experimental module for making payments using PayPal
• MojoX::GlobalEvents is an event handler