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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Death to Dot Star! Ovid 365
2 Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict Ovid 268
3 How a script becomes a module brian_d_foy 247
4 Name Space George_Sherston 244
5 Camel Time hiseldl 202
6 Perl Idioms Explained - my $string = do { local $/; <FILEHANDLE> }; jeffa 193
7 Perl falls victim to shifting trends vladb 190
8 Cool code for your home node BigLug 184
9 Bluetooth people presence detector :) Juerd 164
10 Perl Monk's dream gmax 163
11 "Baby" Perl versus "Bad" Perl Ovid 151
12 Learning the Deeper Secrets of Perl radiantmatrix 142
13 Bohemian Rhapsody (part 1) katgirl 142
14 .vimrc for perl programmers nferraz 140
15 On Finding, Hiring, Inspiring and Keeping eyepopslikeamosquito 137
16 How to introduce 8 year olds to (Perl) programming? domm 136
17 Dames.. frankus 136
18 RFC: Tutorial on Testing tmoertel 134
19 Updating the Tutorials Node footpad 128
20 Use more threads. BrowserUk 126
21 Vim for PerlMonks nodes gmax 126
22 [OT] Best Use of Subversion Branches in Perl Development jkeenan1 123
23 Re: C vs perl Ovid 122
24 How do you avoid "Code Burnout"? hacker 118
25 Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop Limbic~Region 117
26 How to prevent impersonation of other users bart 117
27 Bayesian Filtering for Spam oakbox 116
28 Responsibilities of a module author xdg 115
29 OT: MySQL performance when the problem isn't Perl dws 115
30 Don't have a COW? Get one! japhy 115
31 PDF generation michellem 111
32 Re: Does 5.8.0 suck? mirod 110
33 marital status silent11 110
34 Perl's Warn and Die Signals Adam 109
35 Markup summary when posting/replying? dws 108
36 Re: Code Conflation: Considered Harmful? dragonchild 107
37 A program that really makes waves liverpole 104
38 PM News: Vote fary missing, and other stories... theorbtwo 104
39 Reducing Memory Usage PerlingTheUK 103
40 Open Source, Publications, and Resumes mojotoad 103
41 Regular Expressions: Call for Examples japhy 103
42 Alternate Monk Stats Listing blakem 103
43 Conditional idiom : "if X equals Y or Z" ?? George_Sherston 102
44 Are debugging skills atrophying? dws 102
45 Re: Perl needs Zend blazar 101
46 Why is a hash the default "object" in oo perl? theAcolyte 101
47 (Almost) Purely Functional JAPH Schemer 101
48 Solaris, Perl 5.8 and use 5.005 ZlR 100
49 A flock()alypse now ferrency 100
50 Don't Allow Author to Front Page a Node ignatz 100
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