Dan Nagle

A search tool for Windows developers

dan — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:26:16 +0000

A great tool I use frequently… http://www.voidtools.com/ The built-in Windows search indexes media and standard document files that we as developers do not often use. We usually want to find source files and other files not indexed. Where XP allowed…

Technology is amazing.

dan — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:49:27 +0000

Technology is amazing. Stop and think about it. Look at our cars. We take this technology for granted. Since the dawn of time and up to essentially just the last 150 years, the fastest a person could travel from Point…

Google Fiber, Please!

dan — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:39:19 +0000

Comcast’s Internet bandwidth is roughly 20 Mb/s for $80/mo. For the EXACT SAME AMOUNT, how would you like 1,000 Mb/s bandwidth? It’s hard to visualize an internet this fast. Note that your internal corporate is probably running at “just” 100…

Google Reader may be dying, but RSS isn’t.

dan — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:52:53 +0000

I’m one of the many people lamenting my loss of Google Reader. Google Reader has been my online newspaper for 6 years, and now it is going away. The journalists explained it that RSS is dying because it is too…

Qt > Java

dan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:09:54 +0000

Why do we keep using Java? It is full of security holes, slow (at least for many Swing-based GUIs), uses non-standard OS controls (like its file-browsing widget), requires updating every other week, and now Oracle bundles the Ask toolbar with…

Your goals should be SMART.

dan — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:32:45 +0000

When thinking of new years resolutions, it is a good idea to try to make them “SMART” (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely). For example, a goal that says “Lose weight” is too vague. Instead, that goal should be revised to…

Goodbye Windows XP. Hello Linux Mint.

dan — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:49:25 +0000

Ever since I installed Linux on to a partition in my 2 year old netbook, I haven’t booted in to Windows XP in months. There’s just been no need. What apps do I use most when I am in Windows?…

Miles Per Gallon Break Even Point

dan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:13:43 +0000

This will calculate the break-even miles for 2 separate cars. Use this to see if driving a car with a certain MPG is worthwhile.Some common cars are available in the drop-down menus for quick calculating. Car 1 <Select Car> Prius…

Don’t Buy a Prius to Save Money on Gas

dan — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:19:58 +0000

You can now calculate different cars here: http://dannagle.com/2012/11/miles-per-gallon-break-even-point/ You know how it goes. You are at the pump. $50 in gas later, quite annoyed, your next statement is, “I should get a hybrid.” However, before you go buying, I would…

AutoIt MD5, SHA1, Base64, and CRC32 (Source Code)

dan — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:30:59 +0000

Calculating hashes is very common in software development. I posted a page to help you do a few common algorithms quickly and easily online. A nice little utility I’ve praised before is AutoIt. It is so easy to get an…