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

(Refreshed every 6 hours, approximately. Inspect the xml feed to see how many minutes until the next refresh.)

Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Before asking a database related question ... gmax 228
2 On Commenting Out 'use strict;' Old_Gray_Bear 220
3 How do you master Perl? brian_d_foy 205
4 The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part III): Obfu eyepopslikeamosquito 203
5 Programming is combat brian_d_foy 187
6 Perl Style Guides for Large Projects da 178
7 Defensive Programming and Audit Trails FoxtrotUniform 167
8 No longer a programmer tilly 158
9 Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long dragonchild 156
10 Unit Tests and Creative Tension dws 148
11 Design Patterns Considered Harmful dws 147
12 New level: heretical bronto 146
13 Migrating a 1NF table to multiple 2NF tables jeffa 144
14 "Rites of Passage" wheel reinventing dws 140
15 Perl - Is it an OO Language krisahoch 140
16 The Mail Clerk and the Magic Ring chromatic 133
17 looking for a good idiom: return this if this is true merlyn 130
18 Updating the Tutorials Node footpad 128
19 Array indices Limbic~Region 127
20 A mini-language for sequences (part 1) tmoertel 123
21 The Ethics of Webbots Vautrin 122
22 Security matters: keep thy doors closed! vladb 122
23 $bad_names eq $bad_design Ovid 121
24 Camel Fishing Ovid 120
25 Re: A message for Anonymous Monk koolgirl 119
26 (jeffa) Re: A better mod (%) operator? jeffa 119
27 Perl advocacy, CGI/ModPerl vs ASP/JSP rinceWind 119
28 Revenge of the Perl Quilt ailie 119
29 No Benchmark is better than a bad Benchmark Abigail-II 114
30 Perldocs and peer reviews g0n 113
31 A Peruvian Congressman counters MS FUD dws 113
32 Network Programming With Perl jeffa 111
33 RFC: Implicit Parallelization Pragma hardburn 109
34 Private Methods Meditation theAcolyte 109
35 Spend Less Time Surfing: Pages In Your Inbox with LWP::Simple and MIME::Lite Willard B. Trophy 109
36 Re: Is readdir ever deterministic? merlyn 108
37 Use radio noise to make (non-critical) decisions... dbush 107
38 Re: The One True Style of indentation: JayBonci 107
39 Pattern Matching Query Elgon 106
40 TWAIN Issues and Perl newrisedesigns 105
41 Java is from Mars, Perl is from Venus jacques 104
42 On being a community merlyn 104
43 PM News: Vote fary missing, and other stories... theorbtwo 104
44 Module RFC: Yet another object-persistence interface blokhead 103
45 Indispensible language features FoxtrotUniform 102
46 Difficult code (Resolutions) xChauncey 102
47 Request for comments - Proc::UID pjf 101
48 Re: Deep Recursion Limit broquaint 101
49 http://www.cpan.org Abigail-II 101
50 Framing merlyn stefp 100
As of May 16, 2026 at 23:58 UTC, Next refresh in 1 hour and 15 mins ±15 min