What's new on CPAN - April 2014

May 1, 2014 by David Farrell

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. April was a mix but there were a few gems amongst the dust. Think “Atari landfill excavation” and enjoy!

APIs

• WWW::Pinboard is an API for pinboard.in
• Export your gmail rules into a procmail format with Mail::Google::Procmailrc

Apps

• Alien::pdf2json installs pdf2json which can also convert PDFs to XML
• Keep two instances of Music Player Daemon in sync with App::MPDSync
• Augment your code review process with Git::Code::Review (tutorial here)
• Analyze the results of the du command with App::Du::Analyze

Data

• Generate fake data intended for a relational database with Data::Generator::FromDDL
• Automating your life with Exobrain? Now connect to more services with Exobrain::HabitRPG and Exobrain::Foursquare
• Store your serealized Perl data structure with SerealX::Store
• Types::DateTime provides a Moo/Moose compatible datetime type constraint

Development & System Administration

• Create your own BackPAN index with the aptly named BackPAN::Index::Create
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckBin will add a check to your distribution that a certain command is available
• Enfroce strict version numbers with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckStrictVersion
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::PAUSE::Permissions will check your PAUSE permissions at dzil’s gather files stage
• Want dzil to add a date to your distro but not change the line numbers? Dist::Zilla::Plugin::OurDate is your friend
• Export lexical variables in your packages with Exporter::LexicalVars
• Read and edit ELAN files with File::ELAN
• Re-using the same modules over and over in your solution? Import::Base let’s you reduce your import boilerplate and declare a base set of modules
• Working with thousands of Perl objects and need an efficient implementation? Take a look at Monjon
• If you get frustrated waiting for perldoc to load, you may have issues. Also, see Pod::Perldoc::Cache

Fun

• This is an incredible module; just use Acme::Futuristic::Perl to get Perl 7 running on your machine!
• If having Perl 7 isn’t enough, perhaps you’d like sigil-less scalars? Try bare

Maths, Science & Language

• Is today a holiday? It might be in the Slovak Republic. Find out with Perl and Date::Holidays::SK
• Path::Hilbert converts between 1 dimensional and 2 dimensional spaces using the Hilbert curve algoritm
• Capitalize Portuguese text with Lingua::PT::Capitalizer

Web

• Catalyst::Plugin::ModCluster will register your Catalyst application with an apache mod_cluster
• Authenticate your users with Google’s OAuth on Dancer using Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Google
• Tired of Template::Toolkit on Dancer2? Check out Dancer2::Template::TextTemplate for a more Perlish templating option
• Connect Mojo::UserAgent to the Cloudflare API with Mojo::Cloudflare
• Mojo::YR is an API for the NR.YO weather API
• Enable plaintext route definitions in Mojo with Mojolicious::Plugin::PlainRoutes

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This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.