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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Life at the Monastery. Chapter 1 wombat 205
2 Cool code for your home node BigLug 184
3 Google Earth Monks McDarren 161
4 Named anonymous subs ysth 151
5 Why our company doesn't use Perl :( Ovid 151
6 Mini HowTo: How to port Perl 5 modules to Perl 6 iblech 149
7 Unwritten Perl Books Ovid 149
8 Building Enterprise Web Applications with Maypole Ovid 143
9 Reading from a database stephen 141
10 No More Meaningless Benchmarks! chromatic 129
11 For clarity and cleanliness, I'd recommend... TheDamian 129
12 •Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language merlyn 126
13 Puzzle: need a more general algorithm Ovid 123
14 Maze and Snake! chipmunk 122
15 Matching floats according to perlfaq4 jmcnamara 119
16 More Fun with Zero! CheeseLord 119
17 hash collision DOS kschwab 117
18 A question regarding HTML::Template, tables, and loops atcroft 117
19 Learning to *really* love references astaines 117
20 Why I Hate Nested If-Else blocks jeffa 114
21 Total speculation? BrowserUk 113
22 Reminders for Friars, etc... footpad 113
23 Beating the system mikeirw 112
24 Elusive monks gmax 112
25 I think Casey West is right tilly 112
26 Re: Helping your former company davido 111
27 Re: How much of Perl can be removed? Joost 110
28 Hidden updates ;-( liz 109
29 Re-inventing the wheel is a 'Good Thing' Felonious 109
30 From terminal output to avi - "let's go to the movies" explained teamster_jr 108
31 Neither system testing nor user acceptance testing is the repeat of unit testing (OT) pg 108
32 News and Needs From New Orleans jerrygarciuh 108
33 PM Development Fund vroom 108
34 Parrot, the future of dynamic languages ? szabgab 107
35 How not to code brian_d_foy 107
36 Re: Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict chip 107
37 Re: Universal laws of bugs? dws 105
38 Bare PerlMonks, great for small devices tye 104
39 Pretty graphics generation oakbox 104
40 Pearls (not really) of Perl programming PetaMem 103
41 Re: Coroutines in Perl Corion 103
42 Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language dreadpiratepeter 103
43 Re: The function localtime(time) returns wrong month . How to overcome this problem ?? Corion 102
44 Re: Security with open() in CGI scripts rob_au 102
45 Re: Seeking Advice: Writing a parser jryan 102
46 The First Ten Perl Monks eyepopslikeamosquito 101
47 Security with open() in CGI scripts Coplan 101
48 Re: How to best pass on the context / wantarray? BrowserUk 100
49 Vocal Japh liverpole 100
50 Fast common substring matching GrandFather 99
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