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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Tricks with DBI btrott 282
2 nms - As Recommended By Matt Wright davorg 188
3 Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof Jeffrey Kegler 166
4 drawmap.pl - Spot The Monk! OeufMayo 164
5 Re: Perl needs Zend brian_d_foy 159
6 vroom wins big Erudil 159
7 Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services cjf 151
8 Unit Tests and Creative Tension dws 148
9 Das Email Blinkenlight beretboy 140
10 The Original IQ Test japhy 137
11 A Hacktress' First Attempt SarahM 136
12 Re: Merlyn's secret uncovered! merlyn 135
13 Re: References quick reference lachoy 134
14 code-sharing at work. geekgrrl 133
15 Programming Perl as a Job: 8 hours a day is too much for me princepawn 133
16 Homework threads aren't necessarily evil dragonchild 132
17 A most obscure bug robin 131
18 Trained Perl professional or self-taught hack? punch_card_don 129
19 Perl and Prolog and Continuations... oh my! adrianh 129
20 Perl Monopoly Board eyepopslikeamosquito 127
21 OSS and the Profit Motive dragonchild 124
22 Advancing oneself personally and professionally as a programmer (discussion) deprecated 122
23 Re: poll ideas quest yojimbo 122
24 On Golf Dominus 120
25 Choosing a Platform drago99 119
26 News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file SuperCruncher 119
27 Schwartzian Transform and memory allocation. ThingFish 118
28 Re: C vs perl samtregar 118
29 Re: Do my homework for me! FoxtrotUniform 116
30 Bayesian Filtering for Spam oakbox 116
31 Centiperl! japh 116
32 Best practices, revisited ELISHEVA 113
33 How aggressively does Perl clean up when you exit()? dave_aiello 113
34 The Virtue of Silence TheoPetersen 113
35 (OT) Real World Skills Versus CS Skills Ovid 112
36 using 'use' conditionally xafwodahs 112
37 Combinatorics ezekiel 110
38 Spend Less Time Surfing: Pages In Your Inbox with LWP::Simple and MIME::Lite Willard B. Trophy 109
39 RFC: How to Release Modules on CPAN in 2011 ELISHEVA 108
40 On timely destruction? Elian 107
41 Is your web application really secure? ("CSRF") tinita 106
42 A brief history of Perl 6 development in haiku eyepopslikeamosquito 106
43 Wasting time thinking about wasted time brian_d_foy 106
44 How much Perl6 have we got? bronto 105
45 Re: Would you work at a porn company? grinder 105
46 Solving Meta Sentences YuckFoo 105
47 Things you think you'll never use. redlemon 104
48 Does Anyone Use Rapid Prototyping? Sherlock 102
49 perl.org and DNS: A Hate Story idsfa 101
50 define.pm - a new pragma to declare global constants MeowChow 101
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