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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Things are not what they seem like. Abigail 448
2 Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire dws 329
3 Get Out of a Dull Meeting hardburn 237
4 How should Perlmonks deal with Plagiarism? liverpole 180
5 Web Security merlyn 154
6 Reading from a database stephen 141
7 Ceci n'est pas un obfu FoxtrotUniform 140
8 Paul Graham on Great Hackers biosysadmin 138
9 Rampant Frontpaging lemming 136
10 What is the best way to add tests to existing code? eyepopslikeamosquito 135
11 Can you create *real* global variables? broquaint 133
12 Homework threads aren't necessarily evil dragonchild 132
13 Re: How do you critique another person's code? merlyn 132
14 TinyPerl for Win32 gmpassos 131
15 Re: I think Perl ruined me as a programmer BrowserUk 127
16 Getting more out of LWP::Simple Dog and Pony 127
17 Categorized best nodes gmax 126
18 •Re: Perl Programming guidlines/rules merlyn 126
19 One-Eyed Kings davorg 122
20 (Golf) Mandelbrot Fractal {NULE} 121
21 How's your Perl? xmath 120
22 Re: Professional development with Perl - how it's done? dragonchild 119
23 Autodidact trs80 119
24 [5.8.0 Note] A Sub Named Sigma Zaxo 118
25 Software design -- The confussion of buzzwords zzspectrez 115
26 RSS Feeds For XP Whores And Stats Junkies jcwren 114
27 Best Practices for Exception Handling Ovid 114
28 A tutorial for Perl to teach Beginners theroninwins 112
29 When in Rome... CheeseLord 111
30 Re: Code Samples and Previous Employers tilly 110
31 To use a module...or not. BrowserUk 110
32 future warnings ysth 109
33 Reputation: show both up and downvotes ysth 108
34 Re: What if it were you instead of Linus? PodMaster 108
35 Acronyms seen in the Monastery Theo 107
36 A brief history of Perl 6 development in haiku eyepopslikeamosquito 106
37 Challenge: Chasing Knuth's Conjecture kvale 106
38 Auto-restarting script if it dies mojodaddy 105
39 Coding in smileys biga 104
40 Re: Why Perl is a Valid Choice brian_d_foy 104
41 More ways to download code... demerphq 104
42 Renovating Best Nodes demerphq 104
43 More Power to your Regex robin 104
44 How Many Languages are in Your .pl? hardburn 103
45 Getting Involved with Perl 6 - 2009 moritz 102
46 Conditional idiom : "if X equals Y or Z" ?? George_Sherston 102
47 Re: Deep Recursion Limit broquaint 101
48 You youngin' don't know how good you have it Macphisto 101
49 JETTERO tries to take over Net::IMAP::Simple on PAUSE jettero 100
50 Writing a web message board from scratch tomazos 100
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