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…
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Google Reader may be dying, but RSS isn’t.
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…
Posted in Editorials, Featured
Qt > Java
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…
Goodbye Windows XP. Hello Linux Mint.
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.
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Miles Per Gallon Break Even Point
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. AutoIt MD5, SHA1, Base64, and CRC32 (Source Code)
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…
Online MD5, SHA1, Base 64, and SHA-256 Conversion
This page will encode any string to MD5, SHA1, SHA2 (256), or Base64 (and decode Base64). Note that absolutely no conversion data is sent back to my server so convert in peace. How to write a money-making Twitter Ad Bot
Once a week, @TopGadgetDeals uses the Twitter API to advertise an Amazon link using my affiliate code (?tag=dannag-20). For about month, I had it posting links twice a day and once on weekends.
Android App Survey Results
I ran an Android App Survey for guidance on my next Android development project. The results themselves are interesting enough to warrant its own post. So without further delay, here it is.
Benchmarking C versus Java versus PHP programming languages
I want to post the spoiler immediately: Java is not slow. With that out of the way. On to today's topic: What speed sacrifice is made going from compiled, compiled bytecode, to pure interpreted? For this, I will be revisiting… 
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