What's new on CPAN - January 2014

Feb 3, 2014 by David Farrell

Welcome to the first edition of “What’s new on CPAN”. Every month we aim to bring you a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!

APIs

Games::EveOnline::EveCentral is an interface to the ever-popular game EVE Online.
Want to manage corporate HR data via an online service? WebService::BambooHR. provides an API for BambooHR.com.
Add setlock functionality to Redis with Redis::Setlock.
Need to translate addresses into map coordinates (geocoding)? WebService::Geocodio is a wrapper for geocod.io that does just that.
If you’re interested in Bitcoin trading, Finance::Bank::Kraken is an API for the Kraken bitcoin market.
Want to scrape websites intelligently ? WebService::Diffbot is an unoffical Perl API for the Diffbot service.

Apps

proxyhunter is a proxy server search and checking tool. It supports Postgres, MySQL and SQLite as backend models.
Pipe application output to a websocket with App::screenorama it can capture stdout / stderr.
App::YTDL is another YouTube downloader. Time will tell if it surpasses current king WWW::YouTube::Download.

Bots

Now you can control you’re own remote control car with UAV::Pilot::WumpusRover::Server.

Data

Work with JSON in Perl? Consider IO::Async::JSONStream it asynchronously decodes JSON into Perl data structures.
EBook::EPUB::Check validates .epub files.
Need to create realistic but fake data? Faker is a re-implementation of the classic Data::Faker module.
Give Image::JPEG::EstimateQuality a JPEG and it will estimate the photo quality.
Convert markdown to phpBB / BBCode using Markdown::phpBB.
Biblio::SICI provides methods for working with Serial Item and Contribution Identifiers an ANSI/NISO standard for periodicals.
If you work with TBX data, Convert::TBX::Min will convert TBX-Min to TBX-Basic.

Development & System Administration

Use Sub::Trigger::Lock to prevent direct access of Moose attributes, and force users to only use the implemented interface.
Monitor process memory usage with Memory::Stats.
Writing a Perl XS module? Dist::Zilla::Plugin::TemplateXS is a template driven plugin for minting new XS files.

Fun

Chess::960 is a random starting position generator for Chess960.
WebService::SyoboiCalendar provides an interface to an online Japanese TV schedule for Anime shows.
Check out Acme::Ehoh, it will return your lucky direction, based on ancient Japanese traditions.

Maths & Science

Calculate moving averages of data with PDL::Finance::TA.
Graph::RandomPath will generate a random path between to vertices in a Graph object.
Graph::SomeUtils provides utility methods for Graph objects.

Networking

Forward TCP / UDP packets to another host with Net::Forward.

Testing

Lembas is a new framework for testing command line applications. It has a simple markup that follows shell commands almost verbatim.
Want to use database data in your testing? Take a look at Test::FixtureBuilder.

Web

Render React JavaScript components in TT templates using Template::Plugin::React
Display beautiful Perl code in webpages without JavaScript using PPI::Prettify.
Authenticate a user against multiple realms with Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Fallback.
Dancer::Plugin::Legacy::Routing helps you safely refactor your Dancer application routes.
Speed up Mojolicious’ JSON handling with MojoX::JSON::XS.
Render POD in your Mojolicious app with MojoX::Plugin::PODRenderer.
Use Mojolicious::Command::nopaste to build a pastebin (nopaste) site with Mojolicious.