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OpenOffice-OOBuilder (0.09)

This module does not handle Unicode properly, and it has monolithic functions, so it's impossible to fix by inheritance, without duplicating a lot of code. This makes it a non-starter. It also generates the older .sxc format instead of the newer .ods format.

Instead look at OpenOffice::OODoc which is an excellent module.

Shlomi Fish - 2007-10-08 11:18:22
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Locale-Hebrew (1.04)

The licence of one of the files here is iffy and unclear and may not be open-source. Instead, I suggest you look at Text::Bidi which has a more comprehensive interface, and is based on the fribidi library.

Shlomi Fish - 2007-10-01 03:19:39
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Test-Trap (v0.0.21)

This is a great module. Using it I was able to refactor the tests of the Test::Run suite and reduce the size by 273 lines. The interface is excellent and very convenient and the module just works.

One tip is that you should use the following "use" statement:

{{{{{{{{{
use Test::Trap qw(
trap $trap
:flow
:stderr(systemsafe)
:stdout(systemsafe)
:warn
);
}}}}}}}}}}}

In order to make sure Test::Trap traps the stdout and stderr of external programs invoked by system() and friends. This wasn't clear from the otherwise helpful documentation.

Shlomi Fish - 2007-03-18 06:50:31
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HTML-Tree (3.1901)

This is a really great module for doing HTML processing. I worked with it for a project for a friend, and then as part of WWW::Search, and I found it extremely convenient. It gets the job done quickly.

The documentation is very good. If you find this module useful, you should also look at HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath which extends the power of HTML::TreeBuilder with XPath expressions.

Shlomi Fish - 2006-05-27 01:56:09
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XML-RSS-Aggregate (0.02)

This module is unmaintained and no longer works very well. The author (and I) recommend that you use XML::Feed now.

Shlomi Fish - 2005-11-12 14:44:24
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XML-Feed (0.07)

I have several blogs. Now, in order for them to be syndicated in a certain Planet, I was instructed to aggregate all their feeds into one feed. At first, due to the constraints imposed by the Debian Woody that my remote system had, I used an Evil hack with a patched XML::RSS::Aggregate, a patched XML::RSS module, and lots and lots of evil logic.

Now I converted everything to using XML::Feed and just upload the RSS feed to the server (which is Sarge now). My code is so clean it isn't even funny. I've also used XML::Feed to syndicate my home site blog as news on my homepage.

5 Stars.

Shlomi Fish - 2005-11-12 14:42:03
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HTML-WikiConverter (0.23)

It took me exactly 5 minutes to convert a HTML page to MediaWiki format using this excellent module. My only problem with this is that it converted Bolds and Italics to ''' and '' instead of <b> and <i>, which MediaWiki also support. I'd rather it had an option to use these kind of markups instead.

It's still a great module.

Shlomi Fish - 2005-05-28 02:03:07
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Mail-Webmail-Gmail (1.03.1)

This module is very convenient. I used it to remove mail from a mailing list mailbox where I have tons of undesired messages, to the trash, without having to issue multiple commands in the gmail web-interface. My only problem with is that the interface requires a bit of discovery (IDs vs. Messages handles, etc.)

Highly recommended for all Gmail users.

Shlomi Fish - 2005-04-29 04:12:25
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XML-RSS (1.05)

Wonderful module. I used it to output and parse RSS feeds, starting from code someone else wrote, and was able to get it to work very well. This module now powers the Israeli open-source community events notices propagation and syndication mechanism.

Keep up the good work!

Shlomi Fish - 2005-04-02 10:23:51
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IO-All (0.33)

A wonderful module. Makes dealing with Input and Output very convenient, and concise. Highly recommended. The only problem I found with it was that it has a lot of documentation and it was hard for me to find there what I wanted. (caveat: I contributed a patch to it).

Shlomi Fish - 2005-03-26 03:59:10
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libwww-perl (5.803)

Excellent modules! It helps dealing with the myriad of protocols of the web very well. A must for anyone who considers doing web automation and processing from Perl.

Shlomi Fish - 2005-03-26 02:13:13
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Xmms-Perl (0.12)

Excellent module for interacting with XMMS. I used it to write a "Now-Playing" handler for X-Chat. This way whenever I execute the command "/nowplay", one sees a "/me is listening to My Artist - My Song" message in the current channel.

Keep up the good work!

Shlomi Fish - 2005-03-23 11:36:27
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XML-LibXML (1.58)

This is a great interface to the XML DOM (Document Object Module). The only problem I can think with it, is that some of its settings are not per-instance, but this is the limitation of the underlying library.

In any case, this module is highly recommended for all of your XML processing needs.

Shlomi Fish - 2004-09-10 03:00:32
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XML-LibXML-Common (0.13)

This is a great interface to the XML DOM (Document Object Module). The only problem I can think with it, is that some of its settings are not per-instance, but this is the limitation of the underlying library.

In any case, this module is highly recommended for all of your XML processing needs.

Shlomi Fish - 2004-09-10 02:59:30
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