what-s-new-on-cpan---march-2019.md

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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. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::PhotoDB manages photography data
• Get command line utils for identifying module dependencies, function names and more with App::perlutils
• App::rsync::retry wraps Rsync to retry on transfer errors
• Print horizontal rules of different styles ot the terminal with App::term::hr
• Run Perl scripts in AWS Lambda with AWS::Lambda!
• DNS::Unbound provides an interface to NLNetLabs's recursive DNS resolver
• Download a deck from speakerdeck.com with WWW::Speakerdeck::Download
• Tk::JThumbnail is a file browser implemented in Tk
• Pixela is an activity tracking service, use it from Perl with WebService::Pixela
• Slack::WebHook can post to a Slack webhook with preset layouts and colors
• WebService::ValidSign provides a REST API client for ValidSign, the digital signature app

Config & Devops

• App::ucpan updates CPAN modules with easy-to-read information
• Dotenv supports per-environment configurations, which is the only way to do them in 12 factor apps

Data

• Chart::GGPlot is an ambitious port of ggplot2 to Perl
• Data::Faker::Country provides country and ISO country code data generation
• Graph::Traverse adds a traverse() method for the Graph module
• Syndicate in JSON using JSON::Feed
• Protocol::Database::PostgreSQL is a PostgreSQL wire protocol implementation for Database::Async
• Quickly test if two arrays are identical using Arrays::Same (implemented in XS)

Hardware

• Control the GPIO pins on the original NTC Chip with Device::NTCChip::GPIO
• Device::Yeelight is a controller for Yeelight smart devices

Web

• Giblog is an HTML blog builder backed by Git
• HTTP::Simple provides a simple procedural interface to HTTP::Tiny
• Remove the Server header from the Mojolicious response using Mojolicious::Plugin::NoServerHeader
• Mojolicious::Plugin::TextExceptions renders exceptions as text for command line user agents
• Use Wordpress as a headless CMS with Mojolicious::Plugin::Wordpress
• Catch unreachable code after a Catalyst detach using Perl::Critic::Policy::Catalyst::ProhibitUnreachableCode