Blog Posts

MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.

Writing a Days of the Week Selector Control

Writing a Days of the Week Selector Control

In this article I'll describe the process I went through to create a control for choosing days of the week. The need driving this is the creation of an admin program that allows certain tasks to be scheduled for certain …

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New Domain, More Bloggers

New Domain, More Bloggers

I’ve registered ArmyAdvice.org and mapped my ArmySteve.com domain to it. If you’re just interested in me, you’ll want to go to http://armyadvice.org/ArmySteve/. The main url at http://ArmyAdvice.org/ …

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Mail Call and WebSite Info

Mail Call and WebSite Info

For those wondering how long mail takes, I got 2 letters and 2 packages today (9/10), 3 of which were sent on 8/26 and one on 8/28. So 13-15 days. I had some time today to play around a bit with the look my section of …

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More Stuff To Bring

More Stuff To Bring

Here’s some gadgets that are nice to have: Laptop. Yes, bring one. They’re great for watching movies on and you may have the opportunity to use it for email, webcam, computer games, etc. MP3 Player. If you …

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Bitmask Helper Function

Bitmask Helper Function

I had a need recently to be able to determine if a given position of an integer bitmask was set or not (for example, given the bitmask 0101 which is 5 in decimal, how would you check if the 4 position is set?

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Big Guns

Big Guns

No, not my muscles… We had weapons qualification earlier this week and brought along some other weapons to familiarize with (courtesy of EOD). I got a few pictures and a couple of nice movies of the experience. …

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Some Product Reviews and Packing Tips

Some Product Reviews and Packing Tips

Still love all my UnderArmour stuff – I don’t wear anything else for shirts/underwear now. Got a Gilette Mach3 razor from my wife a few days ago to replace my Gillette Sensor (figured I’d give the new …

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Update From Caldwell

Update From Caldwell

Things are moving along here. I’m fine. My roommate moved to another base a few days ago, so now I’ve got a room to myself. However, that probably won’t last since it sounds like I’ll be moving to …

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