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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Tricks with DBI btrott 282
2 A Level Playing Field Petruchio 228
3 I want site documentation updates and I want them now. Juerd 209
4 How do you master Perl? brian_d_foy 205
5 Damian praises Perl Monks Erudil 205
6 Life at the Monastery. Chapter 1 wombat 205
7 The strictures, according to Seuss toolic 202
8 Benchmarking Your Code turnstep 188
9 (OT) Professional Employees: who owns your thoughts? Ovid 180
10 7 Stages of Regex Users japhy 180
11 Who is Perl? (Anthropomorphizing Everything) webfiend 179
12 José's Guide for creating Perl modules cog 161
13 The answer Sinister 155
14 Gratuitous use of Perl Prototypes grantm 150
15 Not quite Best Nodes of all time... blakem 145
16 Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source talexb 143
17 You know you're a geek when... defyance 142
18 Sierpinski Triangle MrNobo1024 141
19 Reusing code is good; reinvention might be better jlongino 140
20 LWP::Simple: a little more complicated than it sounds Zed_Lopez 138
21 Re: One Liners davido 137
22 YATPATTV jeffa 137
23 Pure Perl Internals (with Pure Perl Segfaults) Ovid 136
24 Just use an XSLT stylesheet mirod 132
25 Re: $a++ allowed by $a-- is not ! why? jeffa 130
26 ftp-Tk thunders 130
27 New Site Rules Governing User Accounts vroom 129
28 On Answering Questions merlyn 125
29 Join the PerlMonks Product Design Team vroom 125
30 Bareword Regex davorg 125
31 Re: Don't go all PerlMonks on me toma 121
32 The Case for Sensitivity to Case-Insensitivity in Module Names QwertyD 121
33 Thoughts on converting from HTML::Template to Template Toolkit Tanktalus 117
34 Countdown.... UnderMine 117
35 OT: The mythical man month - have we learned nothing? EdwardG 116
36 1-D Cellular Automata YuckFoo 115
37 how could i make "them" understand that security IS important ? iza 113
38 A tutorial for Perl to teach Beginners theroninwins 112
39 Order Out Of Chaos Lysander 111
40 (Quiz) To split, or not to split? japhy 111
41 Supersplit jeroenes 109
42 Programming Department danambroseUK 108
43 Why I learn a language. blackstarr 107
44 Pattern Matching Query Elgon 106
45 CrazyPPM repository, interested? crazyinsomniac 106
46 use fields; # damnit nothingmuch 104
47 (jeffa) Re: XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz? jeffa 104
48 I am (not) a ... dragonchild 103
49 Testing for Beginners markmoon 102
50 Re: Yoda Speak Translator Fletch 102
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