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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire dws 329
2 On Commenting Out 'use strict;' Old_Gray_Bear 220
3 Failure To Refactor stephen 200
4 pissed off about functional programming mstone 196
5 Perl Style Guides for Large Projects da 178
6 PM Drinking Game Masem 168
7 Cheap idioms Juerd 165
8 What is code readability? brian_d_foy 164
9 Newest Super Search tye 159
10 Free Perl Books prostoalex 154
11 Monk Levels MZSanford 154
12 Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services cjf 151
13 Isn't that nice? frankus 148
14 RE: How do I recursively process files through directories vroom 146
15 Not quite Best Nodes of all time... blakem 145
16 Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source talexb 143
17 Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice? eyepopslikeamosquito 134
18 Homework threads aren't necessarily evil dragonchild 132
19 Perl 6 Obfu domm 132
20 Perlmonks Threaded Article Viewer jcwren 130
21 Source Divers: string delimiters japhy 128
22 Maze and Snake! chipmunk 122
23 Useless Statistics chunlou 120
24 Re: Why can code be so slow? jbert 119
25 Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd edition bart 119
26 Choosing a Platform drago99 119
27 (OT) Why SQL Sucks (with a little Perl to fix it) Ovid 118
28 hash collision DOS kschwab 117
29 The Perl Diner petdance 117
30 What Worked In My 1st Year Of Perl: LOL luis.roca 116
31 Re: Do my homework for me! FoxtrotUniform 116
32 Get your mugs right here vroom 116
33 Don't have a COW? Get one! japhy 115
34 No, "We" Don't Have to Do Anything chromatic 114
35 !Overriding Builtin print Zaxo 114
36 Perldocs and peer reviews g0n 113
37 Regexes are slow (or, why I advocate String::Index) japhy 112
38 The SSSCA, Microsoft's answer to anti-trust? tilly 112
39 Are "PM Discussions" only to be technical? tye 111
40 (Golf) Let's go bowling virtualsue 109
41 Parrot, the future of dynamic languages ? szabgab 107
42 Wasting time thinking about wasted time brian_d_foy 106
43 Making the Business Case for Developer-Run Development etcshadow 104
44 Plural variable naming (or not?) Sinister 102
45 (Golf) The Animal Game Masem 102
46 Site HTML filtering, Phase II tye 101
47 OT: Advice on escaping Corporate America / Starting own consultancy outfit? flyingmoose 100
48 Project Boundary chunlou 100
49 add to (Personal Nodelet|Scratchpad) links zigdon 100
50 OOP: Plugin Style Development jk2addict 100
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