Reviews by Blue - CPAN Ratings

10 out of 13 found this review helpful:

Object-Nano (0.001)

The stated rationale for this module is to have a version of Object::Tiny with writable accessors. The author apparently didn't bother to do any research as that is the purpose of Object::Tiny::RW. There are many, many reviews of the the different worthwhile class builders. This low rating is intended to steer new users away from a pointlessly reinvented wheel and to seek a more widely used (hence vetted) module.

Blue - 2012-03-26T16:00:22

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2 out of 3 found this review helpful:

Redland (1.0.5.4)

This fails to build and is unmaintained.

Blue - 2012-02-08T02:59:41

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10 out of 14 found this review helpful:

EV (4.03)

Still broken on OS X 10.7. Author was notified and given patch to make it work, but instead of fixing, he tells users to manually install using a different compiler.

Blue - 2011-12-10T17:02:42

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5 out of 8 found this review helpful:

Mo (0.25)

Documentation is lacking on the rationale for this module and why it should be used over the many, many other alternatives. Also, the source code is unreadable line noise.

Blue - 2011-10-02T19:48:32

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4 out of 4 found this review helpful:

Compress-Zlib (2.015)

Although Andy might have been mistaken in his review that the newer versions are using pure perl, I believe he has good reason. I just benchmarked 1.52 against 2.015, and 1.52 is a little more than twice as fast in both compression and decompression as 2.015.

Blue - 2011-04-03T00:17:27

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7 out of 9 found this review helpful:

google_talk_bot (v_01)

Idiotic license.

Blue - 2011-03-14T13:10:01

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3 out of 7 found this review helpful:

Parse-CPAN-Packages (2.33)

Parse::CPAN::Packages::Fast is about an order of magnitude faster and uses only 40% as much memory. Neither, however, offer a way to iterate through the list without first creating the entire list in memory.

Blue - 2011-03-11T13:20:12

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17 out of 60 found this review helpful:

Mojolicious (1.86)

Interface doesn't ever stabilize. The author keeps breaking backwards compatibility. The author also freaks out if anybody asks about benchmarks and badmouths other projects.

Blue - 2011-01-23T11:53:15

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8 out of 11 found this review helpful:

Object-New (0.02)

Another useless module from a newbie. Use Object::Tiny instead.

Blue - 2011-01-20T17:31:53

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4 out of 4 found this review helpful:

Geo-Coder-GoogleMaps (0.4)

According to the docs this is just a fork of Geo::Coder::Google that offers no addional functionality or bugfixes. It simply interfaces with Google via JSON, instead of XML. It also behaves differently than all the other Geo::Coder modules- instead of returning a simple hashref, it returns an object.

Blue - 2011-01-12T14:12:48

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3 out of 6 found this review helpful:

Wolowitz (0.1)

This shouldn't be a top-level namespace. Stick it under Locale::

Blue - 2010-12-26T02:04:59

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1 out of 7 found this review helpful:

CPAM-TWW (0.01)

The moronic new CPAM::TWW!

Blue - 2010-12-24T12:50:49

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5 out of 11 found this review helpful:

Water (0.01)

purge this from cpan, please.

Blue - 2010-12-24T11:50:09

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4 out of 7 found this review helpful:

SHARYANTO-YAML-Any (0.721)

Did you even make a request for the YAML::Any authors to make the order user-customizable? Or submit a patch?

Blue - 2010-12-15T20:53:43

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2 out of 6 found this review helpful:

Bundle-Dpchrist (1.047)

Definitely not a Modern Perler (TM).

Blue - 2010-12-14T19:38:07

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6 out of 6 found this review helpful:

XML-Builder (0.902)

Similar interface as XML::Generator, but benchmarked as 3 times slower and no docs.

Blue - 2010-12-11T14:29:47

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2 out of 4 found this review helpful:

p5-Finance-OFX (20080303)

Completely broken and unmaintained.

Blue - 2010-12-11T12:29:40

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4 out of 4 found this review helpful:

Yahoo-Search (1.10.13)

FYI, the Yahoo Search API is now deprecated in favor of the Yahoo BOSS API, for which no perl interface currently exists.

Blue - 2009-10-11T18:35:05

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2 out of 6 found this review helpful:

Mac-Carbon (0.81)

Yeah, it's maintained again!

Blue - 2009-09-27T02:15:44

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9 out of 20 found this review helpful:

AnyEvent-Kanye (0.02)

This is just horrible namespace pollution. It should live under the Acme namespace, where the rest of the pointless modules go to die. Seeing poor choices like this make me less inclined to use any of the author's other modules.

Blue - 2009-09-21T08:28:51

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3 out of 8 found this review helpful: