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

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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 What you refuse to see, is your worst trap tilly 242
2 HTML::Template Tutorial jeffa 236
3 /o is dead, long live qr//! diotalevi 231
4 Life at the Monastery. Chapter 1 wombat 205
5 I just want to siiiing! Petruchio 187
6 (OT) Professional Employees: who owns your thoughts? Ovid 180
7 Do your homework! FoxtrotUniform 176
8 A couple of site changes tye 171
9 Portable perl: usb thumbdrive zzspectrez 164
10 Total Perl Domination FoxtrotUniform 160
11 Essential CGI Security Practices cjf 158
12 Survey of Surveys on HTML Templating systems tphyahoo 155
13 Composing effective node titles davido 155
14 Re: Re: Perl falls victim to shifting trends(Opinions/Comments From The Other Side) Anonymous Monk 154
15 Lessons learned from getting to 100% with Devel::Cover leriksen 153
16 Unusual Closure Behaviour tachyon 153
17 Specializing Functions with Currying FoxtrotUniform 150
18 (jeffa) Re: Are design patterns worth it? jeffa 148
19 Re: Estimating Task Complexity VS Loudmouth BrowserUk 145
20 Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source talexb 143
21 Coding superstitions George_Sherston 143
22 Missing paralinguistics considered harmful jkahn 134
23 The first cargo cults jepri 134
24 Coming Down From The Pedestal Limbic~Region 131
25 Griping about Typing Ovid 131
26 Stupid Emotional Programmer Attachment, anyone? talexb 129
27 spaghetti obfu dada 126
28 inlined DEBUG constant versus $DEBUG stefp 125
29 Stayin' Alive (with CPAN) joecamel 124
30 Announcing "Other Users" stats (Are you addicted to PM?) blokhead 120
31 Keep the kids amused grantm 116
32 Changing times mr_mischief 115
33 Re: Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform dws 114
34 On bad habits g0n 113
35 How to best pass on the context / wantarray? Corion 111
36 Recent site outages tye 111
37 use strict won't require explicit name for all variables? Biker 110
38 Re: Very very small style question merlyn 110
39 Re: On Scalar Context davido 108
40 Re: Perl/CGI Performance for a Shopping Cart gav^ 108
41 Re: •web site design, or lack thereof Hero Zzyzzx 108
42 Small incremental releases are good! adrianh 107
43 My 2000th post - thank you, fellow Monks! merlyn 106
44 Re: stopping my spamming Abigail-II 105
45 (Revelation) Re: sub and anonymous sub Revelation 105
46 Re: (zdog) Re: •Web Security Ovid 104
47 perl performance vs egrep dba 103
48 Re: Plagiarism?? JaWi 101
49 "NoNe SuCh" in perl core?? saintmike 100
50 OT: Advice on escaping Corporate America / Starting own consultancy outfit? flyingmoose 100
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