What's new on CPAN - August 2016

Sep 7, 2016 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

• API::Medium is a Perl interface for Medium’s RESTful API
• App::Critique is a Perl Critic based app for progressively critiquing code. Looks interesting
• Get ISBN data via the xISBN service with Business::xISBN
• App::opan is a private CPAN server for managing Perl modules, similar to Pinto
• Get a perly interface to the mailboxlayer.com API (email verification service) with Net::Mailboxlayer
• WebService::Mailgun lets you send and receive email via mailgun, an email service
• Net::Statsite::Client provides an OO interface to Statsite, the open source, C implementation of statsd

Config & Devops

• Global::MutexLock is an XS-based module that implements system mutexes via System V IPC Ids. Might be Linux only …
• Escape strings for the shell on Linux, UNIX or MSWin32 using ShellQuote::Any
• XAS::Logmon can manage and monitor log files
• Manage a Buildbot instance via the v2 API using REST::Buildbot

Data

• Extract recent CPAN Testers results with CPAN::Testers::TailLog
• Parse Band-in-a-Box (music software) data files with Data::BiaB
• Convert iRealBook/iRealPro data using Data::iRealPro
• Imager::Trim provides automatic cropping for images using Imager
• Monorail is a database migration tool, inspired by django migrations

Development & Version Control

• Grep::Query is an advanced expression evaluator with its own DSL
• Net::WinRM access WMI classes using WinRM (documentation can be found in winrm)
• Get parallel processing using pipe(2) with Parallel::Pipes
• Paws::Kinesis::MemoryCaller provides a local in-memory implementation of AWS Kinesis; the stream processing service. Useful for testing?
• Get subroutine success/failure information with Process::Results
• Term::Form processes STDIN input, similar to readline

Hardware

• Perl interface to Raspberry Pi’s board/GPIO pin functionality with RPi::WiringPi
• UAV::Pilot::Wumpus::Server is a server for contrlling drones via UAV::Pilot::Wumpus (I’ve used a direct link as the module doesn’t seem to be indexed on MetaCPAN).

Science & Mathematics

• Make a confusion matrix with AI::ConfusionMatrix
• Digest::FarmHash is an interface for Google’s FarmHash library (collection of hashing routines)

Web

• Catalyst::View::Template::Pure is a Catalyst View Adaptor for Template::Pure, the new HTML templating system
• Conveniently generate Facebook Instant Article markup with Facebook::InstantArticle
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Multiplex A websocket multiplexing layer for Mojolicious applications
• Dynamically modify the Plack environment request variable using Plack::Middleware::ReviseEnv