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Selected Best Nodes of All Time!!

# Node Author Rep
1 My coding guidelines Abigail-II 302
2 Tutorial: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming jreades 251
3 Closure on Closures broquaint 205
4 My Experiences with using CGI::Application and Template::Toolkit To Build an Online Shopping Cart skazat 192
5 Somersaulting camel eyepopslikeamosquito 182
6 Are design patterns worth it? FoxtrotUniform 177
7 Bluetooth people presence detector :) Juerd 164
8 Robomonk - An IRC to PM Bridge jcwren 162
9 Larry vs. Joel vs. Ovid Ovid 147
10 Trojan Perl Distributions barbie 141
11 On-the-fly all-languages syntax highlighting gmax 138
12 Linear programming is bad Ovid 138
13 Re: Displaying/buffering huge text files BrowserUk 135
14 What is the best way to add tests to existing code? eyepopslikeamosquito 135
15 Re: local vs my davorg 135
16 Has anyone compared Cygwin Perl to AS Perl? ajt 135
17 Blessables -- What Can You Make Into Objects? chromatic 135
18 Being Popular bikeNomad 133
19 (OT) Advice on setting up your own business (Australian point of view) jarich 128
20 Use more threads. BrowserUk 126
21 spaghetti obfu dada 126
22 Clunky parsing problem, looking for simple solution clintp 124
23 (OT) Motivating the Unmotivated Programmer Ovid 124
24 Overhead of __DATA__? dws 123
25 Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd edition bart 119
26 (OT) Who can use freely available material? Ovid 118
27 Extract numbers in multiple bases jcwren 117
28 Safely altering the behaviour of heavily used modules adamk 115
29 Caffeine and its delivery to monks in need broquaint 114
30 Perl, Chess, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics hsmyers 113
31 Can you spot the problem? dws 112
32 FMTYEWTK about split // ysth 112
33 Planning ahead for product name changes dws 112
34 From terminal output to avi - "let's go to the movies" explained teamster_jr 108
35 Re: There's a level in Hell reserved for ________ rob_au 106
36 palm perl porting, problems? dr_lambado 106
37 The Scalar Range Operator pbeckingham 104
38 Recent slowness and outage tye 104
39 So you know Perl; but do you know programming? Marza 104
40 •Re: sub and anonymous sub merlyn 104
41 It's a Shark. frankus 104
42 Re: Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict TheDamian 104
43 Embed empty value using qw() cLive ;-) 104
44 Seeker Of Perl Sympathy Cody Pendant 103
45 Re: Coroutines in Perl Corion 103
46 Re: Re: Possible first post syndrome remedy ignatz 102
47 Weird crypt Behavior Dr. Mu 102
48 Lots of subs in large program vs lots of small programs bradcathey 101
49 the -x command line parameter Shenpen 100
50 japhy's regex article for the TPJ japhy 100
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