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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 (Ovid - poor paco) Re: How do I recursively process files through directories Ovid 271
2 How a script becomes a module brian_d_foy 247
3 Schwartzian Transform merlyn 219
4 Zen and the Art of Match Variables Elian 207
5 More HTML escaping tye 170
6 Design Patterns Still Aren't simonm 168
7 End ban on root node edits? tye 167
8 What is code readability? brian_d_foy 164
9 fork-bomb! Xanatax 161
10 Musing on Monastery Content Old_Gray_Bear 160
11 Named anonymous subs ysth 151
12 Re: Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO mrmick 151
13 Why our company doesn't use Perl :( Ovid 151
14 One Section to rule them all. benn 140
15 Re: Closing Perl Source Elian 139
16 How to introduce 8 year olds to (Perl) programming? domm 136
17 Dames.. frankus 136
18 What is truth? (Curiosity corner) robin 136
19 Re: Displaying/buffering huge text files BrowserUk 135
20 A brief survey of the DBI usability layer modules on the CPAN Aristotle 131
21 Thinking in perl K_M_McMahon 131
22 A SpamAssassin-Enabled POP3 Proxy McD 129
23 XP and level balancing bprew 128
24 On Answering Questions merlyn 125
25 Programming with Multiple Personalities stephen 121
26 my Dog $spot; Zaxo 119
27 Can I keep my OMI? pg 117
28 Perl aesthetics: the good, the bad, the ugly. vladb 115
29 "Correct" program style questions Ovid 112
30 Planning ahead for product name changes dws 112
31 I think Casey West is right tilly 112
32 Are "PM Discussions" only to be technical? tye 111
33 (XML::Parser) Finding and fixing a bug Juerd 111
34 Re: Cheap idioms Aristotle 110
35 What's the best way to fetch data from multiple sources asynchronously? xaprb 107
36 Re: Code Conflation: Considered Harmful? dragonchild 107
37 No Fear: decoupling your application from the database Ovid 107
38 Re: Programmers are weird chester 106
39 Take Back Your Modules! markjugg 105
40 Experimenting with Lvalue Subs Limbic~Region 104
41 40,053 Philosophical Errors Zaxo 104
42 The Drama of being a Developer II - To Portal or not to Portal cacharbe 104
43 CGI::Application rob_au 104
44 Re: Musing on Monastery Content tye 103
45 Perl Special Variables Quick Reference davido 103
46 No more anonymous categorized answers tye 102
47 Re: Yoda Speak Translator Fletch 102
48 Re: What's the story behind the camel? VSarkiss 101
49 Extending MoveableType to support embedded Perl dws 101
50 html template in a perl script archen 100
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