The day's catch... 50 of the top 2000 nodes of all time!

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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 The fine art of database programming gmax 293
2 How a script becomes a module brian_d_foy 247
3 Name Space George_Sherston 244
4 Schwartzian Transform merlyn 219
5 Pack/Unpack Tutorial (aka How the System Stores Data) pfaut 212
6 On Interfaces and APIs eyepopslikeamosquito 205
7 Failure To Refactor stephen 200
8 Regrettable module names brian_d_foy 199
9 Re: Why should I use perl 5.10? grinder 197
10 Why does PerlMonks work? dws 182
11 Are design patterns worth it? FoxtrotUniform 177
12 XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz? S_Shrum 165
13 Audio CD covers larsen 165
14 Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long dragonchild 156
15 Re: what's faster than .= MarkM 147
16 Ook interpreter GrandFather 145
17 Building Enterprise Web Applications with Maypole Ovid 143
18 print for (1..9) Len 143
19 Re: Are design patterns worth it? dws 142
20 Das Email Blinkenlight beretboy 140
21 (OT) "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right. FoxtrotUniform 139
22 New DB server resources (today's outage) tye 139
23 Notes on Upgrading to 5.8.0 on a production web server markjugg 138
24 Perl best practices fanatism cosimo 131
25 2 years gmax 126
26 Tk Tutorial, Featuring Your Very Own "Perl Sig/OBFU Decoder Ring" hiseldl 125
27 CGI.pm Disillusionment Cody Pendant 122
28 Inspiration comes to the inspirable? simeon2000 121
29 RFC CGI.pm refactoring tachyon 121
30 Choosing a Platform drago99 119
31 Re: Seeking Advice: Writing a parser Zaxo 118
32 pMusic - an MP3 player for disabled people Jouke 117
33 DBI Wrapper Feature Comparison simonm 115
34 Re: Are there any drawbacks to comments -- can they hurt the performance of Perl code? BrowserUk 114
35 Being more Assert-ive with Perl stvn 113
36 Perl, Chess, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics hsmyers 113
37 Re: Should I write your code ? gmax 112
38 NodeReaper Come Hither! demerphq 112
39 Passport Security tilly 111
40 Dealing with errant Q&A posts dws 110
41 Node 541 Corion 109
42 And now write 100 times: "I'll automate our test-environment" Tomte 108
43 My 2000th post - thank you, fellow Monks! merlyn 106
44 Re: (zdog) Re: •Web Security Ovid 104
45 A page from the PM book of prayer VSarkiss 103
46 DNA is Life tucano 102
47 "The First Rule of Distributed Objects is..." perrin 102
48 mod_perl and shared environments don't mix - do they? Aristotle 102
49 Junk NOT words Anonymous Monk 101
50 TMTOWTDI Puzzle: Generating a range of numbers Masem 101
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