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Smart-Comments (v1.0.3)

A very handy way to add debugging to a program without having to use lots of print statements.

BKB - 2008-05-10 18:36:17
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Business-ISBN (2.03)

It does what it says it does - what more could you want? Nice module with no fuss and no mess, has been very useful to me.

BKB - 2008-05-08 22:47:23
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WWW-Search-ISBNDB (0.3)

First of all, the documentation of this module is difficult. The example doesn't work, it has ' in the wrong places, the "native_query" method used for searching isn't documented, and when you do get it to run it just prints out HASH(0x10239485) type of things.

Secondly, it doesn't seem to work properly - the results I got were nonsense, and I couldn't see what I was supposed to do from the documentation. I wanted to search by ISBN but it didn't make it clear how to do that.

In the end it was much easier to write the scraper "by hand" using LWP::Simple and the excellent API documentation of ISBNdb.com than using this module, so my advice is to forget it.

BKB - 2008-05-08 22:45:55
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WWW-Scraper-ISBN (0.25)

Don't bother with this - it needs the drivers but most of them don't work any more. I needed to scrape some ISBNs so I tried this out, but I ended up writing a simple scraper "by hand" (i.e. get the page with LWP::Simple, then chop it up to get the data) without using this module.

The problem is that as the web page formats change with time, if nobody updates the drivers for each ISBN data site, then they can't be used any more. At the moment nobody seems to have maintained most of the drivers for three or four years, so best not to use this thing unless someone starts maintaining the drivers again.

BKB - 2008-05-08 06:21:15
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WWW-Scraper-ISBN-ISBNdb_Driver (0.04)

Seems to work to some extent, but has enormous list of dependencies.

Crashed on ISBN 0440214041.

BKB - 2008-05-08 05:26:54
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WWW-Scraper-ISBN-Pearson_Driver (0.09)

This module doesn't seem to function at all any more. It returned failure on every one of 27 ISBNs I tried.

BKB - 2008-05-08 04:57:01
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WWW-Scraper-ISBN-LOC_Driver (0.22)

This module doesn't seem to work at all. Without investigating the internals, it completely failed to get any results on 27 common ISBNs (John Grisham novels etc.) so it's a fair bet that this is no longer functional.

BKB - 2008-05-08 04:55:11
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DateTime-Calendar-Japanese (0.05)

This module seems incredibly bloated, requiring huge numbers of other modules and libraries to be downloaded and installed. I can't see what it needs so many other modules for - why not recode it in a simpler way?

BKB - 2007-09-11 01:04:41
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Lingua-EN-Numbers (1.01)

Nice, useful utility. No problems or bugs that I have noticed.

BKB - 2007-09-10 08:29:14
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