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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 How to (ab)use substr Erudil 416
2 hello world jbware 218
3 Vim for Perl developers TVSET 214
4 Life at the Monastery. Chapter 1 wombat 205
5 Code Samples and Previous Employers friedo 173
6 PM Drinking Game Masem 168
7 Micro optimisations can pay off, and needn't be a maintenance problem BrowserUk 166
8 The meaning of life, the universe and node reputation Aristotle 162
9 RFC : AJAX + DBI = DBIx::LiveGrid jZed 158
10 Editing features for advanced users gmax 157
11 That screwdriver looks like a hammer... tilly 144
12 sub and anonymous sub BrowserUk 144
13 print for (1..9) Len 143
14 XP Whoring, Stats Pages, and other Memorabilia jcwren 142
15 Re: Re: Hide real IP Roy Johnson 141
16 A Porting Horror Story stephen 141
17 Re: how to avoid mis-spelling hash keys? pg 138
18 Why Perl Monks is a place to be reverred perllove 131
19 Array indices Limbic~Region 127
20 Getting Involved with Perl 6 - an Update moritz 126
21 Finding Hamiltonian Paths using the Regexp Engine Abigail-II 119
22 I'm bored, let's play a game Anonymous Monk 118
23 Re: meaning of '@' sigil on a hash? ikegami 116
24 Keep the kids amused grantm 116
25 Linux Journal article - possible advocacy potential Erudil 116
26 Changing times mr_mischief 115
27 RE: Tricks with DBI Michalis 115
28 Re: Should I write your code ? mirod 113
29 How safe is truncating an MD5 digest string? lemmett 113
30 Regexes are slow (or, why I advocate String::Index) japhy 112
31 Re: The Deceiver japhy 111
32 Offsite Perlmonks Search Engine blakem 110
33 Re: Gargantuan memory consumption issues Corion 109
34 Supersplit jeroenes 109
35 Getting Fed Up with ActiveState Ovid 106
36 Re: Perl Programming guidlines/rules Abigail-II 106
37 Best practice with polymorphic constructors Ovid 106
38 How to detect X? blazar 104
39 Understanding fork + wait jplindstrom 104
40 •Re: Perl cheat sheet merlyn 103
41 Perl Network Programming: A Dying Craft? sierrathedog04 103
42 Indispensible language features FoxtrotUniform 102
43 Are debugging skills atrophying? dws 102
44 Spiro Japh 2 liverpole 101
45 Re: use CGI and die; Ovid 101
46 Re: Plagiarism?? JaWi 101
47 Editor / IDE Consolidation trs80 101
48 Performance Question Jarinn 101
49 Start smoking (Perl) kudra 100
50 Re: Warnings and Strict in Production/Performance ikegami 99
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