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