What's new on CPAN - February 2016

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::WordPressTools provides tools to backup and upgrade WordPress installations.

Manage AMQP connections with Net::AMQP::ConnectionMgr.

WebService::Walmart Interface to Walmart’s open API.

Get a Perly interface to the Microsoft Translator with Lingua::Translator::Microsoft.

Start interacting with Ticketmaster’s APIs using Ticketmaster::API.

Config & Devops

CPAN::Mirror::Tiny can create local CPAN mirrors, with no XS dependencies.

Log::GELF::Util provides utility functions for Graylog’s GELF format.

Data

Stream data scattered across files by datetime using CSV::HistoryPlayer.

DBIx::Class::BatchUpdate can update DBIx results in batches, minimizing the number of queries executed.

Run asynchronous queries on Postgres with AnyEvent and Promises with DBIx::Poggy.

HTML::MyHTML is a superfast, threaded, C based HTML parser.

Image::Similar measures how similar two images are.

Regexp::Parsertron parses Perl regular expressions into trees.

Development & Version Control

Export::Attrs provides Perl 6’s is export(...) trait as a Perl 5 attribute.

trait as a Perl 5 attribute. Get functions to compare Git::Version objects using Git::Version::Compare.

Parse::Diagnostics can extract diagnostic messages from Perl source code.

Perlmazing - a bundle of lazily-loaded helper functions based on Perlmazing::Engine.

GitHub inspired Perl module, run experiments with Scientist.

Want to test a module against every installed version of Perl? Test::BrewBuild builds on perlbrew/berrybrew to do that for Windows Unix-based systems.

Test::Mock::Time create deterministic time & timers for testing. Particularly apt as February 29 th just passed.

just passed. Test2::AsyncSubtest execute subtests asynchronously.

Science & Mathematics

Astro::Constants a collection of Astronomy constants.

Compress::Huffman can huffman-encode a symbol table.

Music::Voss provides functions for fractal noise generation.

Web