What's new on CPAN - December 2016

Jan 5, 2017 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. There were lot’s of fun holiday presents added to CPAN last month, enjoy!

APIs & Apps

App::RoboBot is a multi-protocol S-Expression chatbot
Remove ANSI coloring from output or files using App::UnANSI
Bb::Collaborate::Ultra provides Perl bindings for Blackboard Ultra virtual classrooms
JIRA::REST::Class is an OO module built on JIRA::REST
Use the Azue Cognitive Services Face API with Net::Azure::CognitiveServices::Face
WWW::Wikipedia::LangTitles gets interwiki links from Wikipedia, with some interesting use cases

Config & Devops

Beam::Runner - run methods from objects in Beam::Wire containers
Monitor::MetricsAPI provides metrics collection and reporting for Perl applications.
Redis::RateLimit provides sliding window rate limiting with Redis

Data

Data::Layout::BuddySystem Layout data in memory allocated via a buddy system
Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier using Data::ULID
JSON::RPC2::TwoWay Transport-independent bidirectional JSON-RPC 2.0
Mongol is a basic MongoDB wrapper for Moose objects with a great name
Programatically build HTML (a la CGI) using Moonshine::Element
Convert pod to Confluence-flavored markdown with Pod::Confluence
Text::Diff::Unified::XS - if you need a fast diff this might be your module

Development & Version Control

‘Unbless’ Perl objects using Acme::Damn - love the name
App::TestOnTap is a comprehensive test driver
Lift subroutine calls into the BEGIN phase using BEGIN::Lift. If you’re interested in this module, also check out B::CompilerPhase::Hook
MarpaX::Languages::Dash is a Marpa-based parser for the DASH language
MooseX::EventEmitter is an event emitter for Moose
This is an interesting idea: subroutine versioning Sub::Versions
UNIVERSAL::Object aims to be “a useful base class”

Language & International

Get the names of postcodes/zipcodes with Lingua::Postcodes

Other

Game::Asset loads game assets (images, music, etc.), author Timm Murray has uploaded several game-related modules recently. Check them out
UMLS::Association provides different semantic association measures in order to calculate the semantic association between two concepts in the UMLS

Science & Mathematics

Do cryptography in pure Perl using Crypt::Perl
HTML::Notebook compose HTML documents using notebook style, might be good for scientists
Produce graphs of Stepford Dependencies using Stepford::Grapher

Web

Catalyst::Plugin::Perlinfo displays additional information about Perl on the Catalyst debug screen
Generate charts from data using BokehJS with Chart::Bokeh
Dancer2::Plugin::ParamTypes is a parameter type checking plugin for Dancer2
Turn TCP streams into a line-based stream with MojoX::LineStream
Conveniently fire off subprocesses in Mojo apps using Mojolicious::Plugin::Subprocess

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