PDF
(111)
Doesn't work at all, despite successful installation.
Docs virtually don't exist... well, and 7-year-old bugs show how much the author cares.
Zoffix Znet - 2012-06-21T09:47:45 (permalink)
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perl-vgalib (0.4)
Even though, the cause is likely to be my own dumb fault, installing this module "exploded" my box.
While installing within X, my box stopped responding during EVGA tests. I hard rebooted it, and to my surprise the X config file was all messed up (I am NOT implying that this is module's fault).
The second attempt at installing I did outside of X, and that session froze too.
I would advise caution when running tests for this module.
Zoffix Znet - 2010-12-31T16:27:48 (permalink)
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Date-Manip
(5.54)
It's a great module and it does what it is advertised.
However, it's rare that my task requires the use of this module, and for that reason, I always find myself referring to the documention; that part always makes me utterly annoyed. I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to remember what routine(s) I used to use in the past.
To the author I would suggest using more =head elements in the pod - even for every method/function and even arguments. This way one, who probably used the module in the past, can just glance at the Table of Contents and go "Aha! these two are the ones I used before!".
I am a OO freak and would love to see an OO interface in this module instead of having multiple nested routines; other than that. The module rocks.
Zoffix Znet - 2009-09-28T06:58:01 (permalink)
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File-Size
(0.06)
Not sure what "UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE" means; I couldn't install the module via cpan File::Size. However, module does what it is ment to do and does it fast. Documentation could be improved a bit as I had to run test codes to figure out what exactly some methods return, other than that I like this module.
Zoffix Znet - 2008-09-15T02:43:53 (permalink)
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POE-Component-Proxy-TCP
(1.2)
With version being 1.2 I was expecting the module to be stable or at least workable. The example provided in the documentation (which is only half-written) errored out on the module's code.. after fixing the error and fixing two more errors that followed I gave up on the module.
When installing test freezes... not a single "PASS" with CPAN testers. Question is, why would you release a module with partial documentation and the one that doesn't even work is a mistery to me.
If you have some beta work and would like other people to contribute at least mention that fact in documentation and don't release it under the version number which is commonly understood as meaning "mature" release.
Thank you for your time.
Zoffix Znet - 2008-09-03T17:11:16 (permalink)
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Syntax-Highlight-HTML
(0.04)
Excellent module. Simple, "press button - receive bacon", interface which works as advertised.
I use it to display code examples on my tutorials, haven't seen it misbihave. You can highlight in different colors: doctypes, comments, tag delimiting angled brackets, tag names, attribute names, attribute values and even HTML entities.
By giving the constructor one short argument you can turn on line numbers for which there is also a separate highlighting color.
A note of caution, if you are going to use the CSS code conveniently provided to you in eg/html-syntax.css make sure to set background colors or make sure they are shown properly from parent elements. I've ran into so many pages that set only the color and on my "dark" system theme colors show up as "gray on gray" ^_^
Excellent work on the part of the author. I give this module 5 stars
Zoffix Znet - 2008-08-04T07:18:32 (permalink)
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POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-BasePoCoWrap (0.004)
As the author of this module I won't give it any ratings to play the game fair.
Personally, I found this module useful on many, many occasions. The module allows you to take some POE::Component::*, which in my case were the non-blocking wrappers aroung goodies, and quickly make a fully functionaly and configurable POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::* and ... plug it. The module automatically provides functionality for specifying triggers for commands coming from each of public, privmsg and notice message types, to which of those messages the plugin will respond as well as who is banned or in reverse, who is allowed to use the plugin.
If your plugin needs some extra arguments with some defaults,
adding those is a snap. Want it to not say anything but instead just send events - done deal.
You can dynamically change any of the arguments passed to the constructor at any time, even though that involves poking directly into the object, but that's advertised, thus I don't see it as a big problem. Want to ban someone one the fly? push @{ $plugin->{bans} },
qr/^somedude\@\d+[.]/i; done
After releasing perhaps more than 10 plugins based on this module I completely felt in love with it. The "DOCUMENTATION FOR YOUR PLUGIN" section incourages lazy people (like me) to provide decent documentation to their work.
Thanks for your time.
Zoffix Znet - 2008-08-04T05:59:47 (permalink)
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WWW-Cache-Google
(0.04)
Simple little module, works almost as advertised despite the bug. Until the bug is fixed the fetch() method is useless as google blocks LWP::Simple's default UA string. The module could be improved by switching to LWP::UserAgent and providing a decent error message. The check for whether or not the fetch()ed page actually exists in Google cache (which turned out to be quite easy to do) would be a very nice addition.
Thanks.
Zoffix Znet - 2008-08-03T19:58:12 (permalink)
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XML-Simple
(2.18)
Despite the previous comment I rate this distro to max.. it does what it was made for.. haven't failed me so far. I like the "press button - receive bacon" interface. As for "sometimes hashes - sometimes arrayrefs" this can be configured. Read the documentation.
Zoffix Znet - 2008-08-03T19:44:38 (permalink)
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WWW-Google-Video
(0.4)
The module doesn't do any error checking when using get() from LWP::Simple which causes warnings to be printed due to subsequent regex matches done on (undefined due to error) variable. Maybe it's just me, but I dislike the fact that you have to poke around in object's hash keys in order to obtain results of a fetch(), why not *return* a list, hash(ref) instead? That would easily allow implementation of error mechanizm. Not sure why "url to FLV" gets its "+" characters changed to plain spaces and not just left as they are, or at least changed to %20. Makes it pain to paste those URIs to say, IRC.
I question readability of ${$_[0]} throught the code as well.
Overall, I would say that if an author would put an extra five minutes of his time into this module it could be a decent piece of software.
Thanks.
Zoffix Znet - 2008-08-03T02:17:58 (permalink)
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POE-Component-IRC
(5.40)
A bit hard to start up with, but after a while you get a hang of it and start IRC Bots Co. Ltd. :D
BingOS++ for great work
Zoffix Znet - 2007-12-29T20:54:24 (permalink)
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