What's new on CPAN - September 2016

Oct 12, 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

• Net::Hadoop::Oozie provides a Perl interface to Apache Oozie REST endpoints and utility methods
• Use HelpSystems Intermapper (network mapping and monitoring) with Net::Intermapper
• DracPerl::Client is a client for Dell’s iDRAC controller
• Get a Perl interface to Cassandra’s native protocol with Cassandra::Client
• Business::Monzo provides a Perl interface for the Monzo API (mobile banking)

Config & Devops

• File::Copy::Verify copies data and compares checksums to verify the file was copied correctly
• Get fast network lookups with (Patricia trie based) JCM::Net::Patricia
• MIME::Detect is another file type detection module. Doesn’t seem to work for files without extensions (but checkout the See Also for useful alternatives).
• Keystone is a Perl module for Keystone, a lightweight multi-architecture assembly library

Data

• Compress::Zstd is a Perl interface to Facebook’s zstd (de)compressor
• Visualize a DBIx::Class schema with DBIx::Class::Visualizer
• Parse FIX market data using FIX::Parser
• Geo::OLC is an encoder/decoder for Google’s Open Location Codes
• JSON schemas can be verbose - create them in shorthand using JSON::Schema::Shorthand
• Range::Merge merges ranges of numbers including subset/superset ranges

Development & Version Control

• Manage the underlying Git data model with Git::Database. Author Philippe Bruhat wrote a blog post about this recently
• Wow, Try/Catch syntax for Perl that’s fast, requires no trailing semicolon and respects return: Syntax::Keyword::Try
• Tie::Handle::Filter filters the output to a filehandle through a coderef

Hardware

• A chip driver for TSL256x: Device::Chip::TSL256x
• RPi::DHT11 can fetch the temperature/humidity from the DHT11 hygrometer sensor on Raspberry Pi

Language & International

• Some new helper modules for Arabic:
  • Encode::Arabic::Franco turns Franco/chat Arabic into Arabic
  • Lingua::AR::Regexp provides regex character classes for Arabic
  • Lingua::AR::Tashkeel provides utility functions for Arabic vowel marks

Other

• Acme::Machi - made me laugh
• DDG is the DuckDuckGo search engine’s Open Source components (a dependency of App::DuckPAN)

Science & Mathematics

• Crypt::Argon2 is a Perl interface to the Argon2 key derivation functions
• Digest::MurmurHash2::Neutral an XS based interface to the endian-neutral MurmurHash2 algorithm
• Generate Pseudorandom Binary Sequences using an Iterator-based Linear Feedback Shift Register with Math::PRBS