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Alex Gough 


Charting Data at the Bottom of the World
Alex Gough has a curious job. He's the only programmer for 500 miles at a remote Antarctic research station. His problems are like your problems too, though--gathering, manipulating, recording, and displaying data. Here's how he uses several CPAN modules to make pretty charts and graphs with almost no work. [May 4, 2006]

How Perl Powers Christmas
We've had some fantastic Perl Success Stories in the past, but this one tops them all: How Perl is used in the distribution of millions of Christmas presents every year. [Dec 18, 2002]

The Lighter Side of CPAN
Alex Gough takes us on a whirlwind tour around the more esoteric and entertaining areas of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, and makes some serious points about Perl programming at the same time. [Oct 31, 2001]

Quantum::Entanglement
Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.) Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum physics theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works... [Aug 8, 2001]

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