Here is a representative sample of writing by Robert Nagle (both professional and personal).

Hardware & Software Manuals

• Community-based documentation: In 2008 I wrote 2 lengthy tutorials for  the Plone open-source community.   Its purpose was to  talk about how my company’s software could be used when deploying open source software.
  • Uploading Multiple Files and HTML Pages using Enfold Desktop
  • Managing your Plone websites on Windows with Enfold Proxy
• Best of  Show: (These were help topics I wrote about extremely technical and  complex subjects).
  • Troubleshooting Checklist . This exhaustive document helped customers to diagnose problems.  The support staff uses it to solve customer tickets.
  • User and Server Security. This reference guide helped customers with user security and installation problems.
  • Caching Concepts & Strategies: General introduction to how caching with the company’s product improves Plone performance.  With diagrams.
• Online Help: HW-SW Connectivity, Adaptive Help Window, Adaptive Help Window (integrated view), Quick Start Installation Instructions,   Application Server Troubleshooting, New Software Features, Document Table of Contents . (For more, see the 3 examples of Table of Contents which link to live documentation).
• Table of Contents: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3. These links not only demonstrate how I organize information, they also link to about 100+ additional help topics (all created by me).
• Diagrams: 2 Diagrams about Trusted Proxies,    Online Manufacturing Tutorial (multipage web tutorial for SW and Manufacturing Engineers), Manufacturing Processes (produced for a training class), Diagnostic Procedures (Use Cases gathered for a new SW tool)
• Software Screencasts/ Web  Demos. These were produced using Adobe Captivate.
• Setting up Virtual Hosts for Apache on MS Vista. I posted this little tutorial  on an online forum.  Truthfully, I just wrote this for fun after realizing it was documented nowhere else.

Marketing/Promotional Technical Documents

• What’s New (PDF)(2006) and an older version of the same document with my byline(PDF)(2005).

Book Production and Design

• Plone Book . I had to polish the English translation and do a technical review of this book (which was originally written in German).  Download it here.
• For early 2010 I’m writing a revised edition of the Plone Book, writing it substantially and producing it using Docbook XML and XEP Rendering Engine.

Renewable Energy/Investigative Reporting

In November 2009 I published  two  investigative pieces titled, “Is your website green?” about data centers  for the Houston Chronicle technology blog.

• Part 1 covers how to estimate the carbon impact of a website or data center.
• Part 2 examines how to estimate energy efficiency of data centers and whether the new federal Energy Star rating system will bring improvements in the IT sector.
  

Posters/Presentations

• Posters for 2007 NIJ Conference: Sample 1 (PDF-580K) , Sample 2 (PDF- 2mb)

Reporting on Legal Topics

• Is US Copyright Law Hurting Wikipedia?(2007)

Feature Stories

• Technology Conference Reporting (2004) (10 stories on Houston Chronicle’s technology blog about South by Southwest Interactive)
• Are Meetings Really Productive? (2002) (humorous essay about business meetings)
• Book Clubs, Amazon.com and Social Networking (2006)
• 11 Incredible Music Albums you can download for free (2009). Long feature story about free music, plus several related interviews.
• Cheap Man’s Guide to Podcasting and Audio books (2006)

Analysis & Commentary

• Ebooks, Amazon.com and Chump Change (2004) (Business & Publishing)
• Book Reviews on Slashdot.org (2002-2005: Art of Unix Programming, Two Books on Plone, Managing RAID on Linux , Using Staroffice/Open Office, Professional Apache 2.0. Also Digital Video Hacks (published on dvinfo.net)
• Straight talk about graduate school (2004)

Educational Topics

• Digital Game-Based Learning(2001) (commentary and book review published on slashdot.org)
• 4/2007 UH Presentation on Ebooks (PDF)
• Enrichment Games and Instructional Design. Paper I wrote for an Instructional System Design graduate class at UT Austin in 2001.
• Sample Foreign Language Lesson Plan (PDF, 1998). Published in a newsletter for English language teachers.

Publishing

• Networked Novel(2005)
• Why Ebooks? Why not Web-based novels? (2006)

Technical Writing Topics

• Why readers don’t read documentation: technical writing secrets (2007)
• Job Interview Test (2009).  Insights about technical writing gained from a job interview.

Miscellaneous/Humorous

• Tutorial: How to Control the Crap which appears on your Facebook Wall (2010).   Part rant, part tutorial.
• Are Meetings Productive?(2001) A humorous look at meetings at an IT company.