What's new on CPAN - July 2016

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
- Add copyright information to your images with App::CopyrightImage
- Test the tone perception of your ears with App::tonematch
- ExtUtils::PL2Bat converts Perl scripts to batch files to run on Windows
- Get an interface to Mail Chimp’s API using Mail::Chimp3
- OneAll is an all-in-one social media API, use it with WWW::OneAll
- PowerShell wraps PowerShell commands
- Snapforce::API provides a perly interface for the Snapforce CRM API
- Communicate with socket.io servers using SocketIO::Emitter
Config & Devops
- Get a simple API for querying Gentoo’s installed-package database using Gentoo::VDB
- Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitReturnOr checks for use of
return ... or ...
- an easy mistake to make - RT-Extension-Tags Extension using RT::Extension::Tags
Data
- Parse::SAMGov parses SAM Entity Management Public Extract Layout from SAM.gov
- Access CSV, XML, HTML and log data with SQL using DBD::AnyData2, a new version of DBIx::AnyData
- Use DBIx::Class in asynchronous environments with DBIx::Connector::Pool
- Data::IEEE754::Tools provides functions for inspecting and manipulating Perl’s floating point values
- Create custom ETL processes using ETL::Pipeline
- Geo::libpostal Perl bindings for the speedy libpostal geo coder (disclaimer: I am the module author)
- MARC::Spec builds and parses the MARCspec record path language
- Daniel Șuteu uploaded two search modules:Search::MultiMatch uses 2 dimensional arrays as keys, and Search::ByPrefix searches for substring matches
- Normalize URIs with URI::Normalize - no more missing trailing slashes, yay!
- YAML::LoadBundle loads a directory of YAML files into a single data structure, with different merge options. Nice!
Development & Version Control
- Use map reduce with just a few lines of code using MapReduce::Framework::Simple
- ReadonlyX aims to be a faster, better version of Readonly. I wonder how it compares to community favorite Const::Fast
- Write your script in any encoding with Filter::Encoding
- Alt::FFI::libffi provides a Perl Foreign Function interface based on libffi
- Monkeypatch Moose exceptions with MooseX::ErrorHandling. Docs say “This module is almost certainly a bad idea”. Ready for production then!
- Params::ValidationCompiler let’s you create and re-use parameter validation routines
Hardware
- Device::Chip::AVR_HVSP enables high-voltage serial programming for AVR chips
Other
- Geo::GoogleEarth::AutoTour generates Google Earth tours using tracks and paths
Web
- Parse::WWWAuthenticate parses the WWW-Authenticate HTTP header; not sure if this is better than using a general purpose parser like HTTP::XSHeaders
- PEF::Front is a new web framework
- Plift is a new templating module
- Implement a mock HTTP server for testing using Test::HTTP::MockServer
- Create a test Apache instance with Test::Instance::Apache
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David Farrell
David is the founder and editor of PerlTricks.com. An organizer of the New York Perl Meetup, he works for ZipRecruiter as a software developer.