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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 DBI recipes gmax 381
2 Schwartzian Transform merlyn 219
3 I want site documentation updates and I want them now. Juerd 209
4 Failure To Refactor stephen 200
5 Often Overlooked OO Programming Guidelines Ovid 197
6 Programmers are weird demerphq 192
7 "freak" and recent threads merlyn 181
8 Are design patterns worth it? FoxtrotUniform 177
9 Zombie Hunter (666th post) jeffa 174
10 drawmap.pl - Spot The Monk! OeufMayo 164
11 How to make your Perl 30% faster PetaMem 149
12 (jcwren) RE: The path to mastery jcwren 142
13 (jeffa) Re: Can a non-programmer teach Perl? jeffa 139
14 Code Maintainability mpeever 138
15 Ethics of Dealing with Evil gryphon 137
16 A guide to coding Perl rir 130
17 What Are The Rules For Subs And Modules When Fed Wrong Input Cody Pendant 129
18 Looking For The Obvious - Debugging Perl greenFox 124
19 Style geekcode Juerd 123
20 Re: The parable of the falling droplet grantm 122
21 Re: Why can code be so slow? jbert 119
22 Batch of improvements applied tye 118
23 Why I Hate Nested If-Else blocks jeffa 114
24 Re: What training do YOU need? Aristotle 113
25 Edit scratchpad from within the scratchpad tilly 112
26 Thoughts on revisiting old code rinceWind 112
27 Ghost in the machine. jmcnamara 112
28 Re: Paul Graham on Great Hackers Ovid 111
29 "Perl Design Patterns" tjh 109
30 (tye)Re: The Ovidian Transform tye 109
31 How not to code brian_d_foy 107
32 Small incremental releases are good! adrianh 107
33 SQL Crosstab, a hell of a DBI idiom gmax 107
34 No Fear: decoupling your application from the database Ovid 107
35 Re: How bad it is to learn Perl? hossman 106
36 (OT) Where is programming headed? Ovid 106
37 japhy has met his match japhy 106
38 GetOpt::Long usage style demerphq 105
39 Re: Future of Perl, Future of the Monastery FoxtrotUniform 105
40 Why CGI::Application? sdbarker 104
41 Re: On Creating an Effective Work Environment chromatic 104
42 PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community merlyn 103
43 Re: Never forget to RTFM properly - a story (-U) tye 103
44 Re: Greediness of * vs. greediness of + moritz 102
45 'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl. pjf 102
46 Mixing Mysql and Perl SavannahLion 102
47 Stickman Dance Filmstrip jonadab 102
48 Reading and *writing* configuration files DeathBunny 102
49 TMTOWTDI Puzzle: Generating a range of numbers Masem 101
50 mod_perl web app design considerations vladb 100
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