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{ "tags" : [ "module", "news" ], "description" : "A curated look at March's new CPAN uploads", "image" : null, "date" : "2014-04-04T03:20:11", "slug" : "82/2014/4/4/What-s-new-on-CPAN---March-2014", "draft" : false, "authors" : [ "david-farrell" ], "title" : "What's new on CPAN - March 2014", "categories" : "cpan" }

Welcome to "What's new on CPAN" - a curated look at last month's new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. March was a bumper month for CPAN uploads - a veritable treasure trove of new modules for you to try out. Enjoy!

APIs

  • [Alien::Taco]({{<mcpan "Alien::Taco" >}}) let's you connect and interact with a Taco server
  • [CPAN::Testers::WWW::Reports::Query::Report]({{<mcpan "CPAN::Testers::WWW::Reports::Query::Report" >}}) will fetch CPAN Testers reports - very cool. Long module name though, if that bothers you,have a look at [Package::Abbreviate]({{<mcpan "Package::Abbreviate" >}})
  • Interact with the Yahoo! Query API using [Business::YQL]({{<mcpan "Business::YQL" >}})
  • The curiously named [Devel::Chitin]({{<mcpan "Devel::Chitin" >}}) provides an API to the Perl debugger
  • [Net::Graylog::Client]({{<mcpan "Net::Graylog::Client" >}}) is a Perl client for the open source graylog2 analysis and log server
  • Retrieve Google autosuggestions with [WWW::Google::AutoSuggest]({{<mcpan "WWW::Google::AutoSuggest" >}})

Apps

  • Quickly create command line apps with [App::Basis]({{<mcpan "App::Basis" >}})
  • [App::Cleo]({{<mcpan "App::Cleo" >}}) let's you playback command line commands for slick live demos
  • Create your own self signed SSL certificates with [App::CreateSelfSignedSSL]({{<mcpan "App::CreateSelfSignedSSL" >}})
  • [App::RecordStream::Bio]({{<mcpan "App::RecordStream::Bio" >}}) enables easy processing of biology records
  • Swiftly build Debian packages from templates with [App::makedpkg]({{<mcpan "App::makedpkg" >}})

Data

  • Looking for a mediocre caching module? Check out [Cache::Meh]({{<mcpan "Cache::Meh" >}})
  • Looking for an efficient, mutable shared memory module? Have a look at [Hash::SharedMem]({{<mcpan "Hash::SharedMem" >}})
  • [DBIx::Raw]({{<mcpan "DBIx::Raw" >}}) aims to let you have an ORM-style interface with lower-level SQL querying - very interesting
  • Detect binary and string data using [Data::Binary]({{<mcpan "Data::Binary" >}})
  • [Data::Censor]({{<mcpan "Data::Censor" >}}) can help you conveniently censor data
  • Dynamically generate permutations from nested data using [Data::Tumbler]({{<mcpan "Data::Tumbler" >}})
  • [Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckStrictVersion]({{<mcpan "Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckStrictVersion" >}}) will validate your distribution version number on release
  • Auto-generate a DOAP file for your Perl distribution using [Dist::Zilla::Plugin::DOAP]({{<mcpan "Dist::Zilla::Plugin::DOAP" >}})
  • [MySQL::Partition]({{<mcpan "MySQL::Partition" >}}) will create partitions using MySQL tables - interesting idea but author has labelled alpha so buyer beware
  • Easily parse XML/HTML with a simple markup language using [XML::Dataset]({{<mcpan "XML::Dataset" >}})

Development & System Administration

  • Create a dashboard of information about CPAN distributions with [CPAN::Dashboard]({{<mcpan "CPAN::Dashboard" >}})
  • [Devel::OverloadInfo]({{<mcpan "Devel::OverloadInfo" >}}) lets you introspect overloaded operators
  • [Dispatch::Profile]({{<mcpan "Dispatch::Profile" >}}) is a simple messaging framework
  • Auto-increment your module version after every release with [Dist::Zilla::Plugin::BumpVersionAfterRelease]({{<mcpan "Dist::Zilla::Plugin::BumpVersionAfterRelease" >}})
  • Add a keywords entry to your module POD with [Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Keywords]({{<mcpan "Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Keywords" >}})
  • [Module::Spy]({{<mcpan "Module::Spy" >}}) monitors classes and objects method calls
  • Ban use of specific modules with [Perl::Critic::Policy::logicLAB::ModuleBlacklist]({{<mcpan "Perl::Critic::Policy::logicLAB::ModuleBlacklist" >}})

Text & Languages

  • Detect if text is Japanese or not with [AI::Classifier::Japanese]({{<mcpan "AI::Classifier::Japanese" >}})
  • [Convert::Number::Armenian]({{<mcpan "Convert::Number::Armenian" >}}) will convert numerals between Armenian and Western representations
  • Working with anagrams? uoy hsuold oklo ta [Lingua::Anagrams]({{<mcpan "Lingua::Anagrams" >}})
  • If you're working with Brazilian phone numbers, check out [Number::Phone::BR]({{<mcpan "Number::Phone::BR" >}})

Maths & Science

  • Analyse MaxQuant protein group response differentials data with [Bio::MaxQuant::ProteinGroups::Response]({{<mcpan "Bio::MaxQuant::ProteinGroups::Response" >}})
  • [DSP::LinPred_XS]({{<mcpan "DSP::LinPred_XS" >}}) is a lightning-fast XS implementation of the Least Mean Squared Algorithm
  • Simply Grammar::Graph objects using the aptly-named [Grammar::Graph::Simplify]({{<mcpan "Grammar::Graph::Simplify" >}})
  • [Math::Geometry::IntersectionArea]({{<mcpan "Math::Geometry::IntersectionArea" >}}) will calculate the intersecting area of two geometric shapes
  • Conveniently manage the nginx FastCGI cache with [Nginx::FastCGI::Cache]({{<mcpan "Nginx::FastCGI::Cache" >}})
  • [Set::Similarity]({{<mcpan "Set::Similarity" >}}) provides several methods for measuring the similarity of 2 sets

Testing

  • Merge multiple streams of TAP with [TAP::Stream]({{<mcpan "TAP::Stream" >}}) - amazing
  • [Test::RemoteServer]({{<mcpan "Test::RemoteServer" >}}) bundles some convenient server testing methods

Web

  • Store your Dancer2 sessions in middleware with [Dancer2::Session::PSGI]({{<mcpan "Dancer2::Session::PSGI" >}})
  • [Mojolicious::Plugin::ConfigHashMerge]({{<mcpan "Mojolicious::Plugin::ConfigHashMerge" >}}) enables deeply nested hash config files
  • View your app in a variety of screen sizes using [Mojolicious::Plugin::Responsinator]({{<mcpan "Mojolicious::Plugin::Responsinator" >}})
  • Get an Apache-like scoreboard of your Mojolicious server with [Mojolicious::Plugin::ServerStatus]({{<mcpan "Mojolicious::Plugin::ServerStatus" >}})
  • [WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS]({{<mcpan "WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS" >}}) provides a Mechanize-style object of the PhantomJS headless browser ... JavaScript enabled!

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This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.