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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 Death to Dot Star! Ovid 365
2 use CGI or die; Ovid 237
3 New Display Types ar0n 167
4 Spiro Japh liverpole 158
5 Bitten by the worst case (or why it pays to know whats inside the black box) demerphq 155
6 Welcome to the Monastery! Make yourself at home. newrisedesigns 152
7 You know you're a geek when... defyance 142
8 Turn JavaScript off on HomeNodes vroom 140
9 YATPATTV jeffa 137
10 Basic debugging checklist toolic 136
11 Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice? eyepopslikeamosquito 134
12 Can you create *real* global variables? broquaint 133
13 Re (tilly) 1: Code Smarter tilly 133
14 web-based application or desktop application? pg 129
15 May Thy Closures Be Blessed hardburn 128
16 On programmer schedules and productivity eduardo 128
17 A Cautionary Rant footpad 128
18 Re: I think Perl ruined me as a programmer BrowserUk 127
19 Vim for PerlMonks nodes gmax 126
20 Perl World zshzn 124
21 Master of your Environment (NT) hsmyers 123
22 OT: Preserving Information arashi 120
23 Perl advocacy, CGI/ModPerl vs ASP/JSP rinceWind 119
24 CRSC azatoth 118
25 The Drama of Being a Developer IV - Quality is something else altogether cacharbe 117
26 Responsibilities of a module author xdg 115
27 Does the monastery want a threaded newest nodes? demerphq 114
28 Re: Split ( ) is Giving Me a Splitting Headache bpphillips 113
29 When test-driven development just won't do Ovid 113
30 using 'use' conditionally xafwodahs 112
31 Slashdot over the phone beretboy 112
32 Re: One Point to Saint hood robartes 111
33 Network Programming With Perl jeffa 111
34 Enterprise Perl punkish 110
35 Helping Beginners Ovid 110
36 How I came to contribute to Perl 6 kyle 107
37 Should a Socratic Dialogue be attempted? apl 107
38 what is EOF and how can I send it? revdiablo 107
39 New bracket-link stuff theorbtwo 107
40 Small incremental releases are good! adrianh 107
41 Algorithm::Treap demerphq 107
42 Re: There's a level in Hell reserved for ________ rob_au 106
43 (tye)Re: Unusual Closure Behaviour tye 106
44 OT: If your eyes need a rest ... dws 105
45 Digital Signatures on Web Pages John M. Dlugosz 104
46 What's the biggest piece of work you've done alone with Perl? Your Mother 103
47 Re: Greediness of * vs. greediness of + moritz 102
48 Plural variable naming (or not?) Sinister 102
49 Re: Plagiarism?? JaWi 101
50 Ancient Philosophy And Programming Languages cyocum 100
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