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{ "draft" : false, "thumbnail" : "/images/181/thumb_88AAA022-2639-11E5-B854-07139DAABC69.png", "categories" : "cpan", "authors" : [ "david-farrell" ], "image" : "/images/181/88AAA022-2639-11E5-B854-07139DAABC69.png", "date" : "2017-07-18T09:27:21", "description" : "A curated look at June's new CPAN uploads", "tags" : [ "chrome", "slack", "rapi-app", "ppr", "coinspot", "icinga", "guavaring", "jwt" ], "title" : "What's new on CPAN - June 2017" }

Welcome to "What's new on CPAN", a curated look at last month's new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. The Perl Conference NA was held in June and the talks are on YouTube. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

  • [App::BorgRestore]({{<mcpan "App::BorgRestore" >}}) restores paths from borg backups
  • [Net::Async::Slack]({{<mcpan "Net::Async::Slack" >}}) provides async Slack messaging
  • Trade bitcoin, ether et al using [WebService::CoinSpot]({{<mcpan "WebService::CoinSpot" >}})
  • Use the Globus research data sharing service with [Acme::Globus]({{<mcpan "Acme::Globus" >}})
  • Build and sign GDAX REST request using [Finance::GDAX::API]({{<mcpan "Finance::GDAX::API" >}})
  • REST integration with icinga2 using [Monitoring::Icinga2::Client::REST]({{<mcpan "Monitoring::Icinga2::Client::REST" >}})
  • [WWW::Zotero::Write]({{<mcpan "WWW::Zotero::Write" >}}) provides a Perl interface to the Zotero Write API

Config & Devops

  • Send messages over serial ports using [IPC::Serial]({{<mcpan "IPC::Serial" >}})
  • List out of date author prereqs with [Module::CheckDep::Version]({{<mcpan "Module::CheckDep::Version" >}})
  • [PPIx::Utils]({{<mcpan "PPIx::Utils" >}}) has been separated from PPI
  • [Win32::Ldd]({{<mcpan "Win32::Ldd" >}}) tracks dependencies for Windows EXE and DLL files
  • [lib::relative]({{<mcpan "lib::relative" >}}) adds paths relative to the current file to @INC

Data

  • [List::Flat]({{<mcpan "List::Flat" >}}) provides functions to flatten array references
  • [List::Haystack]({{<mcpan "List::Haystack" >}}) an immutable list utility to find elements
  • [Data::Dx]({{<mcpan "Data::Dx" >}}) can dump data structures with name and point-of-origin
  • [Hash::GuavaRing]({{<mcpan "Hash::GuavaRing" >}}) get consistent ring hashing using guava hash (explained here

Development & Version Control

  • Asynchronously process stream data with [Async::Stream]({{<mcpan "Async::Stream" >}})
  • Interesting: use names beginning with control for punctuation variables using [English::Control]({{<mcpan "English::Control" >}})
  • [PPR]({{<mcpan "PPR" >}}) Pattern-based Perl Recognizer - Damian's PPI alternative
  • Get a pure Perl method keyword; [Method::Signatures::PP]({{<mcpan "Method::Signatures::PP" >}}) (uses PPR)
  • Not another Moose clone, [Moxie]({{<mcpan "Moxie" >}}) is Stevan Little's new OO system
  • [TAP::Harness::BailOnFail]({{<mcpan "TAP::Harness::BailOnFail" >}}) bail's on remaining tests after first failure
  • [Test::Compiles]({{<mcpan "Test::Compiles" >}}) tests if perl can compile a string of code
  • [Test::Expr]({{<mcpan "Test::Expr" >}}) test an expression with better error messages
  • Output the lines of code that resulted in a failure using [Test2::Plugin::SourceDiag]({{<mcpan "Test2::Plugin::SourceDiag" >}})

Hardware

  • Perl Interface to HIDAPI with [Device::HID]({{<mcpan "Device::HID" >}})
  • Interface to the I2C bus on the Raspberry Pi using [RPi::I2C]({{<mcpan "RPi::I2C" >}})

Other

  • Rdirect Printer::ESCPOS output to a PDF file instead of a printer with [Printer::ESCPOS::PDF]({{<mcpan "Printer::ESCPOS::PDF" >}})
  • [SPVM]({{<mcpan "SPVM" >}}) Fast calculation, GC, static typing, VM with perlish syntax

Science & Mathematics

  • Recognize passphrases using Tarsnap's scrypt algorithm using [Authen::Passphrase::Scrypt]({{<mcpan "Authen::Passphrase::Scrypt" >}})
  • Get blind signatures via [Crypt::RSA::Blind]({{<mcpan "Crypt::RSA::Blind" >}}) and [Crypt::ECDSA::Blind]({{<mcpan "Crypt::ECDSA::Blind" >}})
  • [Cuckoo::Filter]({{<mcpan "Cuckoo::Filter" >}}) is a Cuckoo Filter implementation in perl
  • [Geo::Compass::Variation]({{<mcpan "Geo::Compass::Variation" >}}) can accurately calculate magnetic declination and inclination

Web

  • Don't get banned! Throttle requests to a site with [LWP::UserAgent::Throttled]({{<mcpan "LWP::UserAgent::Throttled" >}})
  • Get JSON Web token auth with Plack using [Plack::Middleware::Auth::JWT]({{<mcpan "Plack::Middleware::Auth::JWT" >}})
  • Store sessions in Redis using [Plack::Session::Store::RedisFast]({{<mcpan "Plack::Session::Store::RedisFast" >}})
  • [Rapi::Blog]({{<mcpan "Rapi::Blog" >}}) is a RapidApp-powered blog. Also see Henry's TPC NA talk
  • [Template::Compiled]({{<mcpan "Template::Compiled" >}}) compiles templates into coderefs
  • Automate the Chrome browser using [WWW::Mechanize::Chrome]({{<mcpan "WWW::Mechanize::Chrome" >}})


This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.