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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 "Don't try this at home" ferrency 291
2 Hope that helps -- 1 year on. BrowserUk 214
3 Benchmarking Your Code turnstep 188
4 Categorized Damian Modules TheDamian 175
5 Future of Perl, Future of the Monastery moxliukas 164
6 The meaning of life, the universe and node reputation Aristotle 162
7 Essential CGI Security Practices cjf 158
8 Why machine-generated solutions will never cease to amaze me grinder 155
9 When the Best Solution Isn't sauoq 155
10 So it's homework - so what? tachyon 151
11 Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source talexb 143
12 (Client side) Perl Syntax Highlighter Jaap 143
13 print for (1..9) Len 143
14 You know you're a geek when... defyance 142
15 .vimrc for perl programmers nferraz 140
16 YATPATTV jeffa 137
17 Don't Blame The Browser samtregar 136
18 Re: local vs my davorg 135
19 Using perl to teach programming Falkkin 135
20 Short Refactoring Tip: let the object do it for you Ovid 133
21 Beast of the Number: Parsing the Feral Phone mojotoad 130
22 Updating the Tutorials Node footpad 128
23 •Re: Perl - Is it an OO Language merlyn 126
24 The Case for Learning Perl newrisedesigns 123
25 Why is 'our' good? tilly 121
26 3 questions... 2 about newlines, and one on how to be NICE Joe_Cullity 119
27 Never use Storable to save XS objects Jouke 119
28 Thoughts on converting from HTML::Template to Template Toolkit Tanktalus 117
29 Duff's Device davido 115
30 Intellectual Property jens 115
31 (Golf) Segfault Perl MeowChow 115
32 Don’t Repeat Your… version number Aristotle 113
33 FMTYEWTK about split // ysth 112
34 Re: Re: Re: Bug? 1+1 != 2 BrowserUk 112
35 Re: Beginning Perl for system admins VSarkiss 112
36 NodeReaper Come Hither! demerphq 112
37 Microsoft is against Perl!? tilly 109
38 Thoughts on designing a file format. demerphq 107
39 Parsing Chess Algebra Notation cyocum 107
40 Algorithm::Treap demerphq 107
41 Challenge - Creative Way To Detect Alpha Characters Limbic~Region 106
42 Experiment Design aufrank 106
43 Who What Where When! liz 105
44 Quirky regex bug japhy 105
45 Perlmonks AJAX Voting eric256 103
46 Alternate Monk Stats Listing blakem 103
47 UTFM - Use the Friendly Modules thunders 103
48 Testing for Beginners markmoon 102
49 Preventing Cross-site Scripting Attacks grep 101
50 html template in a perl script archen 100
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