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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO petdance 405
2 How to RTFM Masem 329
3 Don't go all PerlMonks on me bobf 281
4 SPAM eater boo_radley 246
5 CGI::Simple vs CGI.pm - Is twice as fast good enough? tachyon 205
6 Camel Time hiseldl 202
7 "animal" merlyn 191
8 Perl falls victim to shifting trends vladb 190
9 Re: Don't go all PerlMonks on me dana 188
10 A guide to installing modules for Win32 holli 186
11 When to use Prototypes? demerphq 183
12 Remember, before you consider, please, Please, PLEASE: kudra 181
13 Handling huge BLOB fields with DBI and MySQL gmax 147
14 Don't Retitle This Node sauoq 144
15 Is Safe.pm unsafe? crazyinsomniac 142
16 (jcwren) RE: The path to mastery jcwren 142
17 RSS feeds to most of perlmonks.org EvdB 139
18 T.I.T.S. Or, Try It To See. Tanalis 137
19 Why can't life be more like Perl? gryphon 131
20 Source Divers: string delimiters japhy 128
21 An APL trick for the Schwartzian Transform dingus 124
22 Easy Text Adventures in Perl Ovid 122
23 Perl6 Quick Reference busunsl 122
24 How much of Perl can be removed? hacker 122
25 Re: •web site design, or lack thereof Masem 121
26 How to build a Search Engine. TedYoung 120
27 Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers aufflick 120
28 How's your Perl? xmath 120
29 Perl advocacy, CGI/ModPerl vs ASP/JSP rinceWind 119
30 Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option perrin 116
31 how to tell if a file is still being modified oylee 113
32 (OT) Blast from the Past: The Pink Camel Ovid 111
33 When in Rome... CheeseLord 111
34 Chip (on the shoulder) Monks Ovid 110
35 Learning Perligata ailie 108
36 Re: Perl Monks += TMTOWTDI jmcnamara 108
37 Perl ORM comparison (Class::DBI vs. DBIx::Class vs. Rose::DB::Object) aulusoy 107
38 •Re: Re: Password hacker killer merlyn 105
39 How to check if a website is up? anev 104
40 More Power to your Regex robin 104
41 The Drama of being a Developer II - To Portal or not to Portal cacharbe 104
42 I am (not) a ... dragonchild 103
43 Mixing Mysql and Perl SavannahLion 102
44 Do as I say. Not as I do davorg 102
45 Spiro Japh 2 liverpole 101
46 More PM Stats Limbic~Region 101
47 Create minimal offline CPAN mirror Anonymous Monk 101
48 Extending MoveableType to support embedded Perl dws 101
49 Garbage Collection & Secure Programming Solostian 100
50 A flock()alypse now ferrency 100
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