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Welcome to "What's new on CPAN", a curated look at last month's new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Lot's of cool new stuff on CPAN in November, including: a new take on fatpacking Perl programs, TiVo for LWP and a lightning-fast Plack handler.

APIs & Apps

  • [Ceph::Rados]({{<mcpan "Ceph::Rados" >}}) provides a Perl interface to librados, the distributed object store
  • Manage your to-do lists with [App::todoist]({{<mcpan "todoist" >}}) an app for todoist.com
  • [App::loggrep]({{<mcpan "App::loggrep" >}}) implements a date search for log files
  • Exchange SMS with Perl and ClickSend using [SMS::ClickSend]({{<mcpan "SMS::ClickSend" >}})
  • [App::Implode]({{<mcpan "App::Implode" >}}) packs Perl programs into a single executable file using a cpanfile. Alternative to App::FatPacker et al
  • [GnuCash::SQLite]({{<mcpan "GnuCash::SQLite" >}}) provides a Perl interface for GnuCash SQLite files

Config & DevOps

  • Want a parsed list of all Amazon Web Service ip addresses? Check out [AWS::Networks]({{<mcpan "AWS::Networks" >}})
  • [recommended]({{<mcpan "recommended" >}}) loads preferred modules on demand at runtime, but won't die if they're not available
  • [Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Bitbucket]({{<mcpan "Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Bitbucket" >}}) is a Dist Zilla plugin for GitHub alternative, Bitbucket
  • Need to create a temp directory whilst running tests? Check out [Test::TempDir::Tiny]({{<mcpan "Test::TempDir::Tiny" >}}), it will create a temp directory and not delete it if tests fail.

Data

  • [Algorithm::ConsistentHash::JumpHash]({{<mcpan "Algorithm::ConsistentHash::JumpHash" >}}) implements the Jump consistent hash algorithm
  • Parse and format IRC messages using [String::Tagged::IRC]({{<mcpan "String::Tagged::IRC" >}})
  • [Regexp::Lexer]({{<mcpan "Regexp::Lexer" >}}) tokenizes regexes, very cool!

Games & Entertainment

  • [Crypt::Trifid]({{<mcpan "Crypt::Trifid" >}}) implements the classic Trifid cipher dating from 1901. Do not hash your passwords with it!
  • [Chess::PGN::Extract]({{<mcpan "Chess::PGN::Extract" >}})
  • [Video::Generator]({{<mcpan "Video::Generator" >}}) is a Perl class for, err creating videos

Math, Science & Language

  • [Bio::KEGG::API]({{<mcpan "Bio::KEGG::API" >}}) provides a Perl interface to the KEGG database (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes)
  • [Finance::StockAccount]({{<mcpan "Finance::StockAccount" >}}) is a well-documented, comprehensive module for monitoring stock portfoloio performance.

Object Oriented

  • [Types::Git]({{<mcpan "Types::Git" >}}) is an interesting distribution; it provides several Perl Type::Tiny classes for Git related types
  • Ingy and David's Inline module has a great new [tutorial]({{<mcpan "Inline::Module::Tutorial" >}}), it's well worth reading.
  • [MooX::Prototype]({{<mcpan "MooX::Prototype" >}}) implements the prototype pattern

Web

  • TiVo for LWP; record and playback LWP interactions with [Test::VCR::LWP]({{<mcpan "Test::VCR::LWP" >}})
  • [Test::JSON::RPC::Autodoc]({{<mcpan "Test::JSON::RPC::Autodoc" >}}) generates markdown documentation for JSON RPC Web applications
  • What a great idea: [Selenium::Screenshot]({{<mcpan "Selenium::Screenshot" >}}) lets you compare and contrast Selenium screenshots to detect UI changes.
  • [Gazelle]({{<mcpan "Gazelle" >}}) is an XS-based, preforking Plack handler, for, (to quote the docs) "performance freaks". Let's see some benchmarks!


This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.